Product Description

The quick wit and insightful observations of Jack Ohman are evident in this, his first collection of editorial cartoons for Pelican. Ohman lampoons President Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and O. J. Simpson. The social issues of race, homelessness, and abortion are also subjects for his commentary. Even the more recently hotly debated topics of cloning and the Clinton Coffees are criticized.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2826705 in Books
• Published on: 1997-07
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Amazon.com Review
Jack Ohman's cartoons are easy to love: his art is immensely accessible, his wit is always sharp, and his academic background in political science shows through in almost every cartoon. Like the best of the best, Ohman can take an easily lampoonable situation and find just the angle that makes it seem totally fresh. For example, contrasting the media circus surrounding camp O. J. Simpson with an empty street labeled "Media at Camp Battered Women." Or consider the reaction from the National Cutlery Association to the Lorena Bobbitt verdict: "Knives don't wound husbands.... Wives do!!!" Ohman's cartoons never seem tired, and the diversity of topics he chooses to satirize is wonderfully broad: debts and taxes, congressional oversights, "popped culture," environmentalism, gender politics--there's even a chapter on "The Politics of Meaninglessness." If you are not already a huge fan of Jack Ohman, his name will rise to the top of your list after reading Do I Have to Draw You a Picture?

About the Author
Jack Ohman, a resident of Portland, is the editorial cartoonist for the Oregonian. His cartoon strip "Mixed Media" is syndicated throughout the country. His work has been featured in several volumes of Pelican's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year. He is also the recipient of the 1996 Overseas Press Club Award. In selecting the cartoons for this collection, Ohman poured over seven years' worth of cartoons, incurring two bleeding paper cuts and one superficial one.