"Cartoons are a great medium for demonstrating just how absurd something is, without ever having to say it directly."
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Interview in Attitude: The New Subversive Cartoonists edited by Ted Rall (2002)
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Jen Sorensen
Jen Sorensen (born September 28, 1974) is an American cartoonist and illustrator who authors a weekly comic strip that often focuses on current events from a liberal perspective. Her work appears on the websites Daily Kos, Splinter, The Nib, Politico, AlterNet, and Truthout; and has appeared in Ms. Magazine, The Progressive, and The Nation. It also appears in over 20 alternative newsweeklies throughout America. In 2014 she became the first woman to win the Herblock Prize, and in 2017 she was nam
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