> 3-panel comic strips are too small to address these topics even in a properly satiric manner. And yet single-panel political cartoons have been doing it well

> 3-panel comic strips are too small to address these topics even in a properly satiric manner. And yet single-panel political cartoons have been doing it well for centuries. Of course they can't encompass all the nuance, 1000-word essays can't either. Cartoons (and essays) provoke discourse and critical thinking. Or they used to, anyways.