Cartoonist uses oil spill as a medium

AFRICARTOONS.COM

TWO-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNING CARTOONIST STEVE BREEN (for the newspaper San Diego Union-Tribune) was so incensed by the oil spill in the Mexican Gulf that he decided to use the pollution against the polluters.

Using inks that he concocted from oily tarballs collected from the soiled beaches and mixed with gasoline, Steve painted a series of editorial cartoons addressing every angle of the spill. 

"I felt guilty because I found the whole process fascinating and a creative challenge," he told the Washington Post. "I was on kind of a creative high." Steve's newspaper celebrated the idea with full page spreads of the slick cartoons. It's unknown how BP responded to the idea, but it would be safe to assume that they found it crude.

Steve has kindly offered his cartoons for publication on Africartoons.com (see them below). You can meet him, and see first hand how he did it in the accompanying video clips. To read more about it, visit the Washington Post, here. 

To see a collection of oil spill cartoons by Africartoonists, go here.

Reproduced with kind permission STEVE BREEN (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Reproduced with kind permission STEVE BREEN (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Reproduced with kind permission STEVE BREEN (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Reproduced with kind permission STEVE BREEN (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Reproduced with kind permission STEVE BREEN (San Diego Union-Tribune)

Posted on Aug 26, 2010 by Africartoons