3.18.11

Always exciting when a friend (Kevin Kallaugher) gives a TED talk...

Explains why political art is powerful for the people, and prickly for the powerful.
favorite quote:
"In 2/3 of the world, we couldn't even have this meeting. Police would march in, you'd all be arrested, and I would disappear.
And the crime? Laughing at our own head of state."

TEDxWarwick - Kevin Kallaugher - The Power of Caricatures

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Kevin Kallaugher is an editorial cartoonist for "The Economist" magazine and his recognizable cartoons have appeared in more than one hundred publications worldwide. He had won numerous awards throughout the past thirty years, including the Nast Prize in 2005 and the Gilray Goblet for Cartoon of the