Only Words
Megan Herbert
27 May 2024
What might take a thousand words to express can be captured by good cartoonists in a few deft illustrations. Political Cartoonist of the Year Megan Herbert takes this maxim both figuratively and literally. Herbert turns a politician’s platitudes into a picture that shows the inadequacy of words without concrete action.
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