mercury 7
May
20
2024
May
9
2024
On May 9 2024 Ed Wexler published a cartoon showing Robert F. Kennedy Jr. with his skull opened to reveal a brain being consumed by a large pink worm. The worm exclaims that the brain is so nutty while drooling. A banner at the bottom reads RFKJR ATTACKED BY BRAIN-EATING WORM. The image references recent reports that Kennedy had a parasite in his brain years earlier. The cartoon uses exaggerated features to highlight the story that circulated during his independent presidential campaign.
Alden Hedge Fund as Newspaper-Killing Spider in Pat Bagley's Cartoon
Hedge Fund Spider Traps Newspapers
May
2
2018
Pat Bagley's 2018 political cartoon portrays a giant black spider emblazoned with a red dollar sign and labeled 'Alden Hedge Fund,' sprawling across a dark web that ensnares multiple newspaper entities. Figures with hats, each tagged with names like Denver Post, Boulder Daily Camera, Mercury News, and St. Paul Pioneer Press, dangle helplessly in the web, symbolizing entrapment. The artwork uses media ownership satire to critique hedge fund influence, underscoring newspaper industry decline and journalism crisis. Dark, scribbled lines form the web, enhancing the ominous tone of this editorial illustration on predatory financial practices in media.
