Wednesday, February 15, 2017 10:00:27 PM
How to Stay Sane as a Cartoonist in Trumpland
By David Sipress February 3, 2017
Of all my cartoons, the one above is the most published, republished, tweeted, retweeted, liked, shared, or stolen and reprinted without my permission. Just this week, the cartoon was featured in a Times article about coping with the relentless and unsettling news environment that we’re living in these days.
“Well-informed” never appeared in The New Yorker. In fact, I’m not sure where it was first published. It dates from the Clinton Administration, and I have no memory of what event or series of events inspired it. But, every time the news gets particularly dire, the cartoon pops up all over the place. Its appearances on social media have spiked during the past year, and never more so than in the aftermath of National Patriotic Devotion Day—a.k.a. the Inauguration of Donald Trump.
A therapist friend recently reported that his clients are talking more about the news and its impact on their mental health than they are about any of the issues they’ve been working on for years. This brought to mind another cartoon of mine, this one, from 2014:
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A little fantasizing now and then never hurts. I think, Maybe he’ll be impeached. O.K., I know—that would leave us with Pence. Or I think, Maybe he’ll change. If you believe that, Mr. Sipress, I’ve got a wall to sell you.
I know we’ll all “remain sane” somehow—we have to, so that we can be smart and energized and fight back. But with three years and fifty-odd weeks to go, there are definitely moments when I find myself in total sympathy with this comment someone recently added to his post of my cartoon on Twitter: “My desire to be well-informed makes me wish I could fall asleep and wake up on a different planet.”
David Sipress’s first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1998.
Quite a bit more .. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-to-stay-sane-as-a-cartoonist-in-trumpland
By David Sipress February 3, 2017
Of all my cartoons, the one above is the most published, republished, tweeted, retweeted, liked, shared, or stolen and reprinted without my permission. Just this week, the cartoon was featured in a Times article about coping with the relentless and unsettling news environment that we’re living in these days.
“Well-informed” never appeared in The New Yorker. In fact, I’m not sure where it was first published. It dates from the Clinton Administration, and I have no memory of what event or series of events inspired it. But, every time the news gets particularly dire, the cartoon pops up all over the place. Its appearances on social media have spiked during the past year, and never more so than in the aftermath of National Patriotic Devotion Day—a.k.a. the Inauguration of Donald Trump.
A therapist friend recently reported that his clients are talking more about the news and its impact on their mental health than they are about any of the issues they’ve been working on for years. This brought to mind another cartoon of mine, this one, from 2014:
[...]
A little fantasizing now and then never hurts. I think, Maybe he’ll be impeached. O.K., I know—that would leave us with Pence. Or I think, Maybe he’ll change. If you believe that, Mr. Sipress, I’ve got a wall to sell you.
I know we’ll all “remain sane” somehow—we have to, so that we can be smart and energized and fight back. But with three years and fifty-odd weeks to go, there are definitely moments when I find myself in total sympathy with this comment someone recently added to his post of my cartoon on Twitter: “My desire to be well-informed makes me wish I could fall asleep and wake up on a different planet.”
David Sipress’s first cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1998.
Quite a bit more .. http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/how-to-stay-sane-as-a-cartoonist-in-trumpland
It was Plato who said, “He, O men, is the wisest, who like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing”
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