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Friday, May 03, 2013

An oily Friday in cartoons

It's been a month now and I still can't believe that Exxon not only fathered yet another oil spill, but they also suppressed reporting on it.  In fact, according to Grist.org, Exxon took or has taken over the town of Mayflower, Arkansas, as reported in the article, "Arkansas town in lockdown after oil spill nightmare."  If you've never heard of the magazine Grist, neither had I -- here's a list of the funders.

Living in Alaska and having seen how the oil companies operate first-hand (did you know that the U.S. still subsidizes them?), the news about Mayflower really chaps my hide. So I'm applying some cartoon vitriol as lubrication.

On second thought, not.  It seems all of the current oil spill cartoons that I saw earlier are gone.  Googling "oil spill editorial cartoons," I see only ones about the BP Gulf of Mexico spill.  Spooky.

Pulling some cartoons from the U.S. News' 2010 archive and making a few changes (my apologies to the artists for altering their works), I offer you the following:

Adapted from a Jack Ohman cartoon,

image: adapted from a cartoon by Jack Ohman about the BP oil spill, 2010

Adapted from a Gary Markstein cartoon,

image, adapted from a cartoon by Gary Markstein about the BP oil spill, 2010

One by Michael Ramirez and in its original form,

image: cartoon by Michael Ramirez about the BP oil spill, 2010

The next two are from other sites and specifically address the Mayflower spill.  The first is from  Matt Wuerker at Politico:

image: cartoon by Matt Wuerker about the Mayflower oil spill

And this last one is by Jimmy Margulies; it was found at Cagle:

image: cartoon by Jimmy Margulies about Mayflower oil spill

-- Marge




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