For POLITICO’s 15th anniversary, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Matt Wuerker picks his favorite sketches of the past decade-and-a-half chronicling American politics
To celebrate POLITICO’s 15th birthday, we’re looking back at its founding — and forward to the next 15 years of media. Read more from the seriesWhen I first started following political cartooning and began scribbling out cartoons myself, I was in middle school. It was the height of the Vietnam War, President Richard Nixon was getting caught in his web of big lies with Watergate and the counterculture of the ’60s was reaching a high boil.
So, with the caveat that it is impossible to sum up a 15-year period in politics in a couple dozen cartoons, here’s an attempt, in broad strokes, to chronicle an indeed epic epoch from the vantage point of my catbird seat here at POLITICO. You might ask why a disruptive, forward-thinking news outfit would look backward and decide to include an editorial cartoonist in the crew at the launch, much less why they’d keep the ink-stained wretch on board for the rest of the voyage.
My favorite cartoons are the ones with the fewest words. A crisp visual lampoon has special powers. I also find that brainstorming on my bike ride into work is often very fruitful, so I was very happy when it occurred to me, as I pedaled over the Key Bridge to POLITICO’s Rosslyn office one day, how with just a few little tweaks the famous Obama “CHANGE” poster could be turned into the iconic Che Guevara poster.
The virus showed we were defenseless — despite spending more money on our military than the next 11 countries combined.The murder of George Floyd rocked the conscience of the country. It was a tipping point that not only woke up white America to the reality of police violence perpetrated on people of color today but also to other kinds of violence against the Black population throughout history that we’d done our best to bury.
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