A massive 608-page coffee-table collection of over 1,100 of Danziger's post-9/11 editorial cartoons with extensive, educational commentary.

From the dustjacket:

Instructions: Useful notes on the art form for new political cartoonists
Observations: What works and what doesn't
Criticisms: Mistakes, false starts, pulled punches, and political ignorance
Enthusiasms: What to love, what to hate, and what's effective

The Conscience of a Cartoonist is intended as a tour of instruction and exemplification of the political cartooning art, based on the years following the 9/11 attacks in New York City. The tragedy that day and the politically disorganized response provide multiple examples of how satire and its graphic equivalent, cartooning, can be both a scold and a guide in years of continuing crisis. Little in the way of definite structure is contained in these pages, but many of the problems the cartoonist faces are, if not solved, at least addressed. Historical reminders are added to place the drawings in context.

About the Author:

Jeff Danziger was born in New York City in 1943, and grew up in Bedford, New York. He was drafted into the Army in 1968 and served for four years, including one tour in Vietnam as an intelligence officer. He was awarded the Bronze Star and the Air Medal. He has worked as a staff cartoonist for the New York Daily News and the Christian Science Monitor, and his work has appeared in newspapers around the world, including The New York Times, the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, Izvestia, Le Monde, Courrier International, the Wall Street Journal, the London Times, the International Herald Tribune, and Die Welt, and magazines such as the New Yorker and Forbes. He studied drawing in Boston and New York and at the Staedel Museum School and the Malakademie in Frankfurt, Germany. He has produced 10 books of cartoons, a children's book, The Champlain Monster, and a novel about the Vietnam war, Rising Like the Tucson. He lives in New York.

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