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We said goodbye to a who's who of notables in 2010. The sports world mourned John Wooden, Bobby Thomson, Manute Bol, Don Meredith, Les Richter, Merlin Olsen and Bob Feller, among others. The entertainment industry bid adieu to Dino De Laurentiis, Mitch Miller, Lena Horne, Jill Clayburgh, Gary Coleman, "Scar" Lopez, John Forsythe, Barbara Billingsley, Dennis Hopper, Tony Curtis, Eddie Fisher, Ronni Chasen, Satoshi Kon, Art Linkletter and many more. Journalism's Daniel Schorr, Paul Conrad and Edwin Newman signed off, and Elizabeth Edwards, Alexander M. Haig, Daryl F. Gates, Charlie Wilson, Richard C. Holbrooke and Robert C. Byrd left the political stage. A few were memorialized by cartoonists, but all will be missed.

-- Joel Pett

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Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. His work also appears in USA Today.

 
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War, poverty, unemployment, foreclosures, environmental and humanitarian catastrophes, crippling division -- another difficult year in politics, another banner year for political cartoonists! From Pat Oliphant's masterful bipartisan overview to Jen Sorensen’s snarky serial sarcasm, Jack Ohman's trenchant double entendre and Tom Meyer's changing of the Golden State guard, we chided, cajoled, derided, mocked, parodied and needled our way through another year. Now bring on 2011. Where's that cartoon baby with the top hat? 

--Joel Pett

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The current Congress may look, walk and quack like a mallard, but it hasn't ducked the issues, so cartoonists have been anything but lame. Ed Stein sought higher ground on which to plant the rainbow flag (until death do you part, indeed). Jimmy Margulies’ dome-headed pachyderm was bilingual, but not bipartisan, so bye-bye immigration reform. And Nate Beeler hung some missile-toe, puckered up and kissed off unclear objections to nuclear arms control.

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If you still think there's no subversive war on Christmas out there, you're not reading enough editorial cartoons. God bless Rob Rogers for richly depicting the Dickensian outcome of nightmarish tax policy. "Don't you slay my guide tonight," crooned David Fitzsimmons, upon seeing the North Pole from Alaska. And I spread my usual seasonal jeer, dreaming of a white … no, a black hole. Peace on Earth, goodwill to all. Nice sentiment, I suppose … unless you're a cartoonist.

-- Joel Pett

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Joel Pett is the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist for the Lexington Herald-Leader in Kentucky. His work also appears in USA Today.

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Partying shots: The Grand Old Party's wild November blowout bash may have left Barack Obama dazed, shellacked and hung over, but cartoonists are partying on, ridiculing his right moves. Mike Luckovich debased the president with baseless allegations picked up at a wild and crazy tea party. Ted Rall did the tax-cut after-math, and it added up to another not-so-subtle elbow to the president's lip. And Lisa Benson showed no seasonal goodwill, instead dancing into the night while stepping on the compromiser in chief's toes.

-- Joel Pett

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