This runs almost an hour and it may be interrupted by the occasional commercial announcement. It's a wonderful documentary on Paul Conrad…to my mind, the best political cartoonist this country has ever seen. Though nominally a Liberal, he's pretty much savaged every president since L.B.J. took office and every prominent politician…and not unfairly, I think. He certainly was never afraid to piss off anyone, including the editorial board of the L.A. Times. His cartoons often appeared as devastating rebuttals to the paper's own editorials on the facing page.
By the way: Throughout this film, you'll see excerpts from an interview that Conrad did at a radio station in Iowa. The guy sitting next to him in those shots is Max Allan Collins, a fine writer of novels and comics, mainly in the mystery genre. Here's the documentary…
