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Ocupation: Editorial cartoonist

Life: b. April 5, 1961

Birthday: April 5

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Politics, like advertising, is about people selling you things you didn't really want or need.

Topics: People, Needs, Want

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To keep doing this job [draw political cartoons] week after week, I think you have to want to change the world, while understanding that you can't. You have to hold both of those contradictory ideas simultaneously.

Topics: Jobs, Thinking, Ideas, Political Cartoons

I don't think being a cynic is necessarily a negative thing. It's a matter of seeing the world with clear and open eyes.

Topics: Eye, Thinking, Negative, Open Eyes

Our basic civil liberties are in jeopardy, but we're going to be spending our time as a society arguing about whether or not schoolchildren should be forced to pay tribute to imaginary invisible beings who live in magical kingdoms in outer space some

Topics: Space, Liberty, Kingdoms

My cartoons appear in newspapers, which are full of words, but there's something about having it in this little box that confounds people's expectations.

Topics: People, Expectations, Cartoon

I don't think that what I'm doing [political cartooning] is necessarily left versus right. What I'm addressing is top versus bottom. If I'm not spending a lot of time making fun of the more extreme elements of the Green Party, it's because what I do is to critique power.

Topics: Fun, Party, Thinking, Green Party

Good satire is about attacking the powerful, and that tends to be more the purview of the left. Maybe there's something about the conservative mindset that confuses mean-spirited name-calling and insults with actual humor.

Topics: Powerful, Mean, Names, Mean Spirited, Name Calling

My biggest influence growing up was Mad magazine, which is a very text-heavy form of visual satire. I didn’t grow up wanting to draw donkeys and elephants with the names of politicians written across them.

source: - "Dan Perkins". Interview with Julian Brookes, www.motherjones.com. January 2001.

Topics: Growing Up, Names, Elephants

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