As Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert undergo the slings and arrows of outrageous censorship, a timely new documentary chronicles a sketching scourge of the status quo who skewered the powers that be, lampooning politicians, oligarchs and other tyrannical targets with a pen wielded like a harpoon.
A Savage Art: The Life & Cartoons of Pat Oliphant takes a look at the Pulitzer Prize-winning artist who used the First Amendment via the visual medium of the single panel political cartoon to express sharp commentary in graphic form for about half a century, from LBJ to Trump, providing as one interviewee puts it, “a throughline to the insanity of America.”