Ted Rall - Saturday June 24, 2000 Comic Strip Licensing and Permissions

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Welcome to the land the graphic arts forgot! It's small bodies but with big heads. Unbeknownst to most normal Americans, many politicians suffer from hydrocephalus, a disease that causes swelling of the cranium. After careful consideration of my rich constituents, I'd like to vote against humanity. Some say it's too much fatty food. In any event, early political cartoonists learned to draw these water heads the way they looked. What? Please move over a smidgen. Over time,normally proportioned people came to dominate Washington. But the cartoonists never met them because they spent all of their time with lobbyists. Eventually they saw everyone as having small bodies and big heads... and their readers suffered from the same illusion! She'd be cute if her head wasn't so big. Coming soon: the arbitrary cross-hatching zone. What is that thing? Political cartoonists weird me out.

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