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Pat Bagley of The Salt Lake City Tribune used a brutally powerful baptism theme last Friday.
Flint's dangerous water is covered prominently by network newscasts, magazines and newspapers nationwide. Even People magazine has an article this week.
The intense attention includes numerous editorials. Three appear today by the New York Post, Perioa Journal Star in Illinois, Charleston Gazette-Mail in South Carolina. An opinion column is in Tuesday's New Orleans Times-Picayune and The New York Times had an editorial last Friday .
As writers, we value the power of words. As journalists, we also recognize the equal -- and sometimes stronger -- power of images, such as these editorial cartoons from near and afar.
Sometimes a picture, or drawing, vividly reinforces a thousand words -- as these six illustrate well.
The Columbus Dispatch in Ohio today publishes this cartoon by Nate Beeler.
Bill Day, a syndicated cartoonist, recently drew this undated cartoon.
Yann Kebbi, an illustrator based in Paris, evokes Diego Rivera's style in this image of the governor that accompanied a New York Times editorial Jan. 15.
This is one panel of a Brian McFadden strip in The New York Times opinion section last Sunday.
Locally, Mike Thompson of the Detroit Free Press was far ahead on this issue. His cartoon was published fast Oct. 1 as the news began emerging.
