http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton Monte Wolverton's blog Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:02:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Here, for educational purposes, are a couple of emails from corn-servatives in response to my last cartoon regarding anti-healthcare reform riots. As usual, I seem to have touched some sensitive spots. **************** I don't riot, and I don't shout at town hall meetings, but there are many parts of the proposed reforms ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/08/11/healthcare-riots/ Here’s an email I received in response to my admittedly edgy cartoon of the Cambridge Police at the door of H.L. Gates. Sir, I am writing you regarding your cartoon of July 27th, 2009. I respect the fact the we live in a free country where everyone is entitled to speak their ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/07/28/porcine-picture-piques-post/ A few photos from the American Association of Editorial Cartoonists convention in Seattle -- today! Top image, Mike Peters gestures hypnotically toward Gary Groth, who seems immune. Middle image, Jeff Parker and Jesse Springer question the proficiency of the photographer. Lower image, David Horsey is inexplicably struck by some sort ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/07/03/aaec-convention-in-seattle-selected-photos/ The work of my father, Basil Wolverton, will be exhibited at the Barbara Gladstone Gallery, 515 W. 24th St. in New York City. The exhibition of more than 150 pieces opens Friday night, June 19th and runs through August 14th. This is perhaps only the second time the work of ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/06/07/basil-wolverton-show-in-nyc/ Finally, in this fourth and final installment on the vital issue of leadership, we visit religious leadership -- the most bizarre of the four kinds I have identified. Having worked in the business of religion for decades, I can say that religious leadership is potentially more toxic and exploitive than ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/05/20/how-leadership-works-part-4/ See the other two forms of leadership below -- coercion and employment. But the most dangerous form is political leadership. The most effective political leaders are persuasive coalition builders with messiah complexes.  They need loyal followers who will kill and die for them. Even after a million and an half ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/05/15/how-leadership-works-part-3/ Continuing this resurrection of a series from my archives, In part 1 we examined the most basic form of leadership -- coercion -- someone coerces someone else who has a need to be coerced. The most common form of leadership, however, is the employer-employee relationship. Here the employer needs employees ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/05/08/how-leadership-works-part-2/ Here's another great thing from the Wolvertoon archives! Eleven years ago I did a four-part series on leadership. This was a mere four years after I earned my M.A. in organizational behavior, with an emphasis in creative groups. After giving it four years to settle and ferment, I came to ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/05/04/how-leadership-works-part-1/ While browsing through my archives the other day, looking for something else, I ran across this toon I did 11 years ago. "Hey," I thought. "This is as provocative and true as it ever was. It needs to be resurrected. I'll post this on my blog and share it with ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/04/22/organizations-take-em-back/ Here's a great email I got from a Bushie (in response to my Inheritance Tacks cartoon), in which he addresses each of my "Tacks." Isn't it just heart-rending to watch him clamber to defend his failed paragon? "Federal Deficit - Great, let's add TRILLIONS to that deficit, that will help (and blame ... http://blog.cagle.com/wolverton/2009/04/09/bushie-blues/