Missed genius of Marderosian’s post
Put me in the the-cartoon-is-tone-deaf camp.* But, as important is it is to be on the lookup for gender-stereotyping, the sexism debate obscures the visionary genius in Mark Marderosian’s cartoon. The city ought to sell the police station property. The site is...Mark Marderosian’s (unpublished) final TAB toon
One of the joys I had as editor of the TAB was going into my inbox on Mondays and opening Mark Marderosian’s editorial cartoon. Even these past couple months since leaving, his artwork on the opinion page was always one of the first items I’d look for....A Marderosian cartoon to remember an historic Board of Aldermen moment
In honor of all Newton aldermen who will become city councilors on Jan. 1, I present my favorite Mark Marderosian* cartoon (which ran in the Newton TAB in July 2008). Mark and I laughed a lot when we brainstormed about cartoons, and I don’t think we ever laughed...Recalling an earlier ‘charter privilege’ moment
When City Councilor Emily Norton and four colleagues stood up Wednesday night to invoke a parliamentary procedure known as a charter privilege to postpone setting a date for the Northland referendum, I couldn’t help but recall this wonderful cartoon from Mark Marderosian which ran in the Newton TAB in July 2008.
My memory is a little fuzzy about what happened in 2008 but as I recall it was the tail end of a controversial budget debate when Aldermen Paul Coletti, Ted-Hess Mahan, Susan Albright and Sydra Schnipper rose to prevent a vote rejecting Mayor David Cohen’s city budget. Because of the timing, the move meant that Cohen’s budget was approved by default, in spite of the fact that Cohen did not have the needed votes. (If anyone reading this can fill in the gap please do.)
Anyway, while the 2008 charter action achieved what it was intended to do (i.e. an allowed-under-the-rules end run past the will of their colleagues), it’s not clear that Wednesday’s stunt by