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July 15, 2019
Matt Farwell
Playing Soldiers
An Afghanistan veteran reckons with growing up on G.I. Joe and growing tired of American war drums.
January 30, 2017
Juliet Kleber
The Progressive, Grown-Up Appeal of Adventure Time
How a show for kids captivated a new generation of young adults.
October 27, 2016
Jeet Heer
Jack T. Chick Was the Leni Riefenstahl of American Cartooning
Other cartoonists abhor Chick's hateful message, but find it hard not to admire his artistry.
October 7, 2016
Jeet Heer
The Perversion of Pepe the Frog
In hijacking the amphibian character, the alt-right is defiling a great tradition of racial commentary in cartoons.
April 14, 2016
The New Republic
Remembering Legendary New Republic Cartoonist Vint Lawrence
June 20, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Influence of Road Runner Cartoons on Stanley Kubrick
June 9, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Controversy Over Muhammad Cartoons Is Not About the Prophet Muhammad
May 10, 2015
Phoebe Maltz Bovy
The Risks of Siding With French Secularism
The National Front's defense of 'Charlie Hebdo' should make the mag's progressive American defenders wary
May 8, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Aesthetic Failure of 'Charlie Hebdo'
The French satirical magazine refuses to evolve, using a stale artistic strategy from the 1960s
May 6, 2015
Jeet Heer
How Did Everybody Suddenly Become an Expert on French Visual Satire?
May 4, 2015
Jeet Heer
The Anti-Islam Exhibit Attacked in Texas Is a Clearer Free Speech Case Than 'Charlie Hebdo'
January 16, 2015
Christopher S. Grenda, Chris Beneke
When Blasphemy Goes Viral
The 'Charlie Hebdo' massacre marks the dawn of a digital age of irreverence and retaliation
January 14, 2015
Jeet Heer
Found in Translation
Arthur Goldhammer is America's finest bridge to French culture
January 8, 2015
Donald Morrison
What Does It Mean to Be French? The 'Charlie Hebdo' Massacre Complicates the Answer.
January 27, 2014
Jeet Heer
Herblock Was a Fine Political Cartoonist. Liberals Don't Need to Deify Him.
December 16, 2013
The New Republic Staff
A New Book on Rube Goldberg Features these Amazing Sketchbook Contraptions
March 15, 2013
Reid Cherlin
Washington's Creepiest Cartoonist Is Actually a Sweet 73-Year-Old Texan Retiree
Meet the man behind Daily Drawings
December 26, 1988
Vint Lawrence
Eraserface
George Bush, cartoonist's nightmare.
February 3, 1947
The New Republic Staff
History of Food as a Political Weapon

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