"Why is it that cartoons about Islam’s prophet rouse an anger in some of its adherents so intense as to be murderous? They tried to kill Kurt Westergaard, one of the Danish cartoonists. They tried to kill the Swedish artist Lars Vilks, who depicted Muhammad as a “roundabout dog” and who was present at the Copenhagen event that was attacked in February. They did kill four cartoonists and several other staffers of Charlie Hebdo in Paris, and they were bent on a saturnalia of slaughter in Texas last Sunday. The answer was actually given by a notoriously corrupt American politician: William M. Tweed, known as “Boss” Tweed, who ran the Tammany Hall political machine in New York during the mid-19th century. Tweed’s plundering ways came under attack by the cartoonist Thomas Nast, whose most famous drawing depicted the portly politician in a fancy suit and a tie bearing a huge diamond stickpin, with a head that was a big moneybag emblazoned with a dollar sign. The cartoons upset Tweed, who said, “Stop them damned pictures! I don’t care so much what the papers say about me — my constituents don’t know how to read. But they can’t help seeing them damned pictures!” That is the key to the cartoon’s power: its instant accessibility. All it takes for a cartoon to deliver its truth and take its target down a peg is one glance — and one laugh."via Gates of Vienna
Wow. Never really thought art was worth much, but that is an awesome point. If done properly, art can convey complex issues with relative ease. Leftist art usually tries to convey simple issues with complex graphics.