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'Dancing With Dynamite' In The World Of Political Cartooning

Chion Wolf

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"Well, my book is written--let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library--and a pen warmed up in hell." So wrote Mark Twain in an 1889 letter to William Dean Howells.

Bob Englehart, now 30 years into his life as the Hartford Courant's editorial cartoonist, carries on the Hartford tradition of a Pen Warmed Up in Hell.
 
Like Twain, he is an import. Englehart's early sensibilities were shaped in the Midwest,
Over the years, he has heaped just about every form of disparagement and ridicule on almost every sort of institution and person; and for his trouble he has been described with just about every imaginable negative adjective, usually in the letters sections of the newspapers where he works.
 
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Colin McEnroe is a radio host, newspaper columnist, magazine writer, author, playwright, lecturer, moderator, college instructor and occasional singer. Colin can be reached at colin@ctpublic.org.

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