Alfredo Sabat on starvation in Africa, Lurie Award winner 2006
Remember this cartoon, from Sabat, in Brazil? It was a commentary on the “tsunami” striking African children, who were not getting aid like victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami were getting.
Steve Benson, the genius cartoonist at the Arizona Republic, updated the idea.
Steve Benson in the Arizona Republic, on the increase in poverty and hunger in America, 2011
More:
- Perhaps, after this news item: Poverty Rate rises in America (CNN, September 2011)
- Map showing poverty in America by state (CNN)
Millard Fillmore's Bathtub 