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by Charles Brooks (Editor)
For the past decade--ten eventful, epochal years--the Best Editorial
Cartoons of the Year series has become the definitive compendium of leading
cartoonists ' views of major national and international issues. Started in 1972,
the series has been widely acclaimed as a concise yet far-ranging pictorial
history of each year's events. As Publisher's Weekly said, it's a great way to get the gut feeling of a year's history.
The works of nine Pulitzer Prize winners are featured in Best
Editorial Cartoons of 1972 . Edited by Charles brooks, past
president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists, the 160-page
hardcover volume provides a pictorial history of the year's top news events as seen by 110 editorial cartoonists from throughout the Unitd States and Canada.
The book inludes the editorial cartoons selected as winners of the Pulitzer
Prize and the Sigma Delta Chi and Headliner Awards for the previous year.
Author Biography
In addition to his lifetime of work as an editorial cartoonist, Charles Brooks has had another rewarding long-time career: that of editor of Pelican's Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year Series. This landmark series, begun in 1972, showcases the work of editorial cartoonists from the United States and Canada. Throughout his life, Brooks has not only seen history unfold before his eyes, but he also has recorded it for posterity in his cartoons. So, too, do the editorial cartoonists that he chooses to appear in each edition of Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year. The cartoons, inevitably more famous than the cartoonists themselves, become a part of the history that they capture. Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and was a cartoonist for the Birmingham (Ala.) News for thirty-eight years. He has been the recipient of thirteen Freedom Foundation awards, a national VFW award, two Vigilante Patriot awards, and a Sigma Delta Chi award for editorial cartooning. Brooks' cartoons appear in more than eighty books, including textbooks on political science, economics, and history, as well as encyclopedias and yearbooks. His original cartoons are on display in the archives of many libraries.
