What is the point of a cartoon? The dictionary definition is an obvious place to start: “A simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way.”
The Guardian has got into a(nother) pickle over a cartoonist. A few months ago they completely mismanaged a situation where one of their cartoonists, Martin Rowson, was accused of using anti-Semitic tropes. Now it would appear that their other big beast cartoonist, Steve Bell, has been accused of the same.
