A requiem to an art form

For years, Tim Kreider's The Pain- When Will It End? was a weekly reminder that there was still hope for the United States, a lonely voice of indecency and uncommon sense in the howling Bushian wilderness. When he retired from cartooning a few years ago, my reaction was Fine! Have it your way. Guess I won't be motivated to kick off a revolution against the capitalist system strangling the world then. I'd loved to see his take on the global financial crisis, vampire squid etc.

Kreider has returned as a writer, and his essay on the state of cartooning in the age of the internet is insightful, funny and bitter.