![]() For example, the swoop of Donald Trump’s hair is his most recognizable feature, and the key to drawing Hillary Clinton is her big eyes, he said. He even gave the audience tips for accurately illustrating these figures. On a large canvas perched on an easel, Pett went to work creating caricatures of political figures, starting with Richard Nixon and finishing with the upcoming presidential election’s candidates. ![]() He’s depicted politicians and people of power in creative ways, ranging from drawing Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell as a turtle to President Obama as a puzzle piece. His cartoons cover issues including abortion rights, gun laws, corporate media, global warming and the Syrian refugee crisis. Pett showed some of his work to demonstrate his point. His talk was part of the three-day In Light Film Festival events. Pett demonstrated the elements of creating a political cartoon for the audience at GISB. “People oftentimes say that I’m unpatriotic because I criticize the government a lot, but I’m really very patriotic because very few countries in the world pay you anything to draw your commander-in-chief as semen,” he said. Pett, who has been the editorial cartoonist at the Lexington Herald-Leader for nearly three decades, spoke about politics, his work and the dangers of being a political cartoonist in countries with strict sedition laws as a guest of the In Light Film Festival, which aims to bring human rights and ethnographic documentary films to the area.ĭuring his talk at the Government and International Studies Building, Pett said the freedom of speech laws in the United States make it one of the safest places in the world for editorial cartoonists. ![]() “Political cartoonists for some reason have this peculiar ability to really piss people off,” he said during a visit to campus Saturday. 7, 2015, Islamic terrorists killed 11 people and wounded 11 more at the office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in retaliation for the magazine’s publication of cartoons that mocked the Muslim prophet Muhammad.Īccording to Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Joel Pett, violence is not an uncommon reaction to good cartoons. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Joel Pett described how political cartoons are meant to provoke, but retaliation such as that of the Charlie Hebdo bombing is an assault on free speech.
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