Jeffrey Brown spoke with editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes for PBS News Hour – watch the full interview at the link below.
“Autocrats especially do not like editorial cartoons. They are the great equalizer, and they don’t like being laughed at.
If editorial cartoonists all of a sudden go away, that means something else is following. Other voices will be silenced. And it’s not that great a leap to go from an editorial cartoonist being silenced through threats or whatever to you sitting around having coffee with your friends and you’re joking about politics nowadays, and you’re making fun of the president or the prime minister or your local politician, and somebody reports you.
And then you get questioned about your political beliefs. It’s not that big of a jump.” 
(Ann Telnaes)
(Ann Telnaes)– An urgent warning from one cartoonist offered with pencil and brush. 
(Jeffrey Brown)
(Jeffrey Brown)
