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Out of Line: Drawing Democracy in an Election Year
March 8, 2016, 7:00 PM
Free
Dan Wasserman will show and discuss his cartoons from the current and past election campaigns. He will be joined by his images of all your favorite political characters, from Bernie and Hillary, to Jeb! and the Donald. Dan will discuss the role of satire in a democracy, his sources for cartoon ideas, conflicts with editors and publishers, and he will read some of his favorite letters from Globe readers.
Dan Wasserman has been drawing editorial cartoons since Ronald Reagan’s run for the presidency in 1980 and for The Boston Globe since 1985. His work is syndicated by The Tribune Content Agency and appears in over 40 papers and websites in the US and around the world. His cartoons have been reprinted in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, Newsweek and The Week. He has published two collections of cartoons, We’ve Been Framed and Paper Cuts.