The strip below was created using bitstrips.com, a new, mostly easy-to-use site that hands comic strip tools to everyone. As a dedicated Dilbert reader, Municipalist knows it ain't the quality of drawing that matters. It's that a picture really is worth a thousand words, even if it is a very simple picture. Here is an example of how such simple animation was used to explain something complicated: The debt crisis brought on by speculation in mortgage-backed securities. [It's in the Washington Post, which may require you to register, which is free.]
Anyway, the power of such a simple mode of expression is now available to all, thanks to the Internet. No drawing skills necessary. Public sector bloggers take note. So of course we now urgently await the first blogging/cartooning mayor, state legislator, or city council member!
By the way, our favorite editorial cartoonist is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Michael Ramirez, whose work is here.
