So we know what shitty editorial cartoons look like. How about good ones? What makes the best cartoonists in the profession different than the dross that wins most of the prizes and hold all of the jobs? Let’s take a look.

Tom Tomorrow is the undisputed king of desconstructing right-wing and Republican talking points. His retro-1950s-esque art style has traveled well from its late 1980s origins, oddly reminding us how far we’ve come from a country that once had certain democratic traits.
Ruben Bolling is a cartoonist’s cartoonist, the person the best of the best point to when asked “Who’s better than you?” Seeking to reinvent the form every week, he takes artistic and compositional risks. Personally, I love his social commentary work even more than his political stuff. But it’s all worth reading.
Shannon Wheeler does the best gag cartoons published by The New Yorker. Here is his strip. You really feel like you’re in the hands of a seasoned humorist when you read his stuff.
What I want to know is: Why doesn’t the Pulitzer committee reward this kind of work? Why isn’t there a single newspaper in the nation willing to hire these artists?