Now is as good a time as any to do a round-up of Libya-related editorial cartoons that included something map-ish. There's a LOT of them here... and one can see as the nature of the conflict changed over time how the focus of the cartoons generally shifted from "Gaddafi vs. the Arab Spring" to "NATO/Obama/Rebels have no idea what they're doing in Libya" to "So long Gaddafi"... all over th course of about 6 months. Here goes:
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Artist: Ena van Bockel |
Earlier in the situation, when the Arab Spring had just begun, many of the cartoons basically just reminded their audiences of Gaddafi's continued presence and his odious hostility towards his subjects..
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| Artist John Sherffius |
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| Artist: Arend van Dam |
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| Artist: Hassan Bleibel Al-Mustakbal |
As the Arab Spring continued and the world began to take more notice of the situation in Libya the cartoons began to look at international involvement.
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| Artist: Dale Cummings |
As the concept of a "no-fly" zone began to be bandied about an incredible number of editorial cartoonists used the Gaddafi-as-fly motif. Here's a couple that also included maps.
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| Artist: Stuart Carlson |
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| Artist: John Sherffius |
Of course it didn't always need to be a fly.
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Artist: Ena van Bockel |
This was during the part of the venture when a group of African leaders went to Libya to try to help sort things out and ended up offering a proposal which seemed to favor Gaddafi
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| Artist: Godfrey Mwampembwa, aka "Gado" |
Don't forget there were other conflicts going on in Africa at the time (map-of-Africa logo on the African Union Commission logo qualifies it for this blog)
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| Artist: Chip Bok |
I'm pretty sure that's supposed to be Obama... but it's one of the few editorial cartoons that I found that correctly pointed out that this was primarily a British/French-led adventure with the U.S. playing a back-up role. There were plenty of cartoons, however, that pointed to a selfish, usually oil-based, motive behind NATO's help of the rebels in the conflict.
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| Artist: Joel Pett |
Joel Pett looked at the hypocritical origins and misplaced priorities angle
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| Artist: Joel Pett |
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| Artist: Marshall Ramsey |
There were also a lot of U.S.-is-overextended cartoons.
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| Artist: Ed Fischer |
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| Artist: Steve Sack |
There were lots and lots of NATO/Rebels arguing cartoons
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| Artist: Bas van der Schot |
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| Artist: Tony Auth |
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| Artist: Paresh Nath |
... and several "Does NATO/U.S. have any idea what they're doing" cartoons
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| Artist: Drew Sheneman |
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| Artist: Steve Sack |
However, there was also the part of the conflict where Obama was trying to not call the U.S. involvement "war", so as to get around having to ask Congress for permission to act.
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| Artist: Walt Handelsman |
...and reminders that the situation in Libya was part of the larger continuing "Arab Spring".... Summer? ...Fall? Still, I think the changes have been moving a long quite rapidly, all things considered.
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| Artist:Christ Grosz |
But now it appears that Gaddafi's time is almost up.
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| Artist: Mike Thompson |
... so it's time for the U.S. public to move on to another topic... although honestly the blame for this attention deficit disorder rests just as squarely upon the popular U.S. news outlets.
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