Ted Rall
Ted Rall
Frederick Theodore "Ted" Rall IIIis an American columnist, syndicated editorial cartoonist, and author. His political cartoons often appear in a multi-panel comic-strip format and frequently blend comic-strip and editorial-cartoon conventions. The cartoons appear in approximately 100 newspapers around the United States. He was President of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists from 2008 to 2009...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth26 August 1963
CountryUnited States of America
Close friends love you for who you are; not what they want you to be.
Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?
The word 'hero' has been bandied about a lot to refer to anyone killed in Afghanistan or Iraq. But anyone who voluntarily goes to Afghanistan or Iraq [as a soldier] is fighting for an evil cause under an evil commander in chief.
Anyone should be able to read comics.
Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.
Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
Silk Road to Ruin has all the analysis and it's structured very well. I rely on my notes more and I use direct quotes. But there's nothing like writing about it right away.
When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.
Imagine foreign troops sitting idly, laughing as hooligans trashed the Smithsonian, stole the gold from Fort Knox and burned down the Department of the Interior. That was us in Iraq.
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
The best thing about being a cartoonist is to walk into a bar or someone's apartment and they don't know you, but they've taped one of your pieces up.
I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.