"The end of cartooning as we know it"

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That’s Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Mike Peters’s fear. Barack Obama is a lot harder for satirists like Peters and other editorial cartoonists to lampoon than John McCain. For Peters and his fellow cartoonists, Campaign 2008 has been a gift. See the story on National Public Radio (Click here for full story link.).
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Editorial Cartoonists Review Election '08

Campaign Caricatures

Morning Edition, October 28, 2008 · One thing Barack Obama and John McCain have not had to worry about during the long presidential campaign is making caricatures of themselves.

Luckily for them, that’s someone else’s job: editorial cartoonists.

Mike Luckovich of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and Mike Peters of The Dayton Daily News recently joined Renee Montagne to look back at some of the memorable moments of the race between Obama and McCain.

The satirists’ themes are like a history of the campaign: the candidates' early struggles to define themselves; the emergence of Sarah Palin; and America's increasingly gloomy economy.

And both are worried that a victory for Obama could mean hard times for cartoonists.

“He’s just going to be very difficult to mock,” Luckovich said.

“It’s going to be the end of cartooning as we know it,” Peters said.

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