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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRob Rogers' first cartoon as a freelance syndicated cartoonist without a staff job NAILED IT.
Link to tweet
Stuart G
(38,434 posts)Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Somebody will hire him.
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)Demsrule86
(68,586 posts)malaise
(269,053 posts)Make America GASP again
judesedit
(4,439 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)How DARE they do this to these children and to the nation we all inherited!
GetRidOfThem
(869 posts)I am naturalized citizen, who was originally German. My father immigrated here from Germany because he felt the Germans were being too "East Friendly" during the student revolution in the late 60's. He told me that what happened in Germany, in the 1920s through the 1940s, would never happen in America because America is a "too easygoing country". He got us all naturalized.
I now feel ashamed of having the American Citizenship, I'd much rather carry the German. Bad things happened in Germany's past, but the populace learned. This country here (the U.S.) has never been defeated on its own soil, so large elements of the population knows no real shame. Terrible things will need to happen to this land before people wake up, but I don't want them to happen. But they might still... (warning and foreshadowing...)
I am uplifted by the negative response to the child detentions. Maybe this will bring about some of the change we need. It seems to me that a lot of Americans are still in touch with their humanity...
judesedit
(4,439 posts)judesedit
(4,439 posts)Dorn
(523 posts)Ohioboy
(3,243 posts)I thought cartoonists were supposed to exaggerate a subject's features to make it funny.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)Till I went on Rob's Twitter feed.
The Network has an annual courage award.
Each year we give the Courage Award to a cartoonist who is in danger for one reason: for expressing his or her free speech rights. We do not award a cartoon. We make no comment on the quality or intent of a specific cartoon. We award a cartoonist under threat or attack.
We will not award a cartoonist if, in the majority view of our Board, his or her work advocates violence or hate.
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Rogers article in Sunday NY Times.
Cha
(297,298 posts)Cha
(297,298 posts)Hassler
(3,379 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,927 posts)Pittsburgh's loss...............
and he deserves a great position somewhere!
Mosby
(16,319 posts)I'd kick in 50 bucks.
AwakeAtLast
(14,130 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,959 posts)
I love swiping this cartoon.... but it's nice to have the links, also, because Rob Rogers can get some support, and sharing to social media directly from him.