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
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.
Do our government's poorly paid contract killers deserve our 'support' for blindly following orders?
Money stress is what used to remind me of my Dad most.
I'm a better polemicist in prose.
If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.
It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.
Trying to rebuild Afghanistan on the cheap has left the country in the hands of warlords and an impotent Northern Alliance puppet regime that runs Kabul and nothing else.
There was an honorable tradition of using anonymous sources that was ruined by Jayson Blair.
The experts who managed the original Marshall Plan say Afghanistan needs a commitment of at least $5 to $10 billion over 5 to 10 years, coupled with occupation forces of 250,000 Allied soldiers to keep the peace throughout the country.
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.
Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.
When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.
When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
On the ground, Pakistan is the most virulently anti-American state on the planet.