REFLECTIONS

A cartoon cannot say "on the other hand," and it cannot be defended
with logic. It is a frontal assault, a slam dunk, a cluster bomb.
Journalism is about fairness, objectivity, factuality; cartoons use unfairness,
subjectivity, and the distortion of facts to get at truths that are
greater than the sum of the facts. Good cartoonists are also the point men
for the First Amendment, testing the boundaries of free speech. If they
are doing their job, their hate mail runneth over.

Doug Marlette. In Your Face: a Cartoonist at Work. Houghton-Mifflin,
1991.