Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year #1980

Hy Rosen's cover art sets the tone perfectly for this 1980 annual collection, depicting a rotund figure gleefully burning books before a blazing fire while a shadowy, authoritarian silhouette looms ominously in the background. Edited by Charles Brooks with a foreword by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, this Pelican Publishing edition gathers the sharpest editorial cartoon work of the year into one essential volume. It's a vivid snapshot of political cartooning at full force, capturing the biting wit and social commentary that defined 1980's most pressing debates.