Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year: 1975 Edition

by Charles Brooks, Barry M. Goldwater (Foreword), Hubert Humphrey (Foreword)

The third volume of this acclaimed series offers a sobering look back at the history-making events of 1974. Often humorous, sometimes poignant, and always interesting, these cartoons are guaranteed to tickle your funny bone and tug at your heartstrings as you turn the pages. The energy crisis, Watergate, and rampant inflation combined to create hard times for the average American, but a wealth of material for editorial cartoonists. Busing in Boston, nuclear bombs in India, and trouble in Britain also added to an already very eventful year. Running the gamut from scathing to sarcastic to sincere, these best editorial cartoons of 1974 feature the year's Pulitzer Prize, National Headliners Club, National Newspaper Award/Canada, and Sigma Delta Chi Award winners among its numerous contributors. ABOUT THE EDITOR
Charles Brooks is past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and was a cartoonist for the Birmingham (Ala.) News for thirty-eight years. He has been the recipient of thirteen Freedom Foundation awards, a national VFW award, two Vigilante Patriot awards, and a Sigma Delta Chi Award for editorial cartooning.

160 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1975

Reviews

[Bill Sleeman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Exactly what you would expect from this year (1975) and this series (Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year...). It is always intriguing to see how some issues for voters - inflation, wages, jobs, corruption in Washington (both real and imagined) - continue to plague us year-in and year-out.