ERIC THE GREAT


allie allie obama free.

While perusing one of my favorite web sites -- Daryl Cagle's Professional Cartoonists Index -- I was recently compelled to add to my list of favorite political cartoonists a tremendously talented artist named Eric Allie, who works out of Chicago, publishes his cartoons through the Cybercast News Service, and archives his work, complete with RSS feed, here. The man is a major talent, wielding a sharp pen and even sharper wit to skewer the left, the right, and the mainstream media with equal, and equally savage, aplomb. But especially endeared himself to me with a series of that most-rare species of political cartoon: the Dare-to-Question-Saint-Obama bit.

Here are two of my favorites, in which Mr. Allie's genius speaks clearly and eloquently for itself...





...even as it reminds Lady McBama of all those nasty naysayers at the front of the editorial bus.

Posted: Sun - January 27, 2008 at 03:10 PM          

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