He also relished the Reagan years, which he says rivaled the Nixon and Clinton years for material. Choosing Metaphors Carefullly Presidents are obvious targets for editorial cartoonists, but Horsey also tackles other hot issues of the day, some of which can be highly controversial. He's come to expect angry phone calls on occasion, especially following cartoons on religion, abortion, or race. He knows it comes with the territory. The only problem is, those symbols and images can mean different things to different people.
People can read things in a lot of different ways.
If they are going to get mad at me, I want them to get mad at what I really meant to say. So I have to choose my metaphors carefully. The College's Other Pulitzer Cartoonist Mike Luckovich, '82, won the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Editorial Cartoons in 1995.