“WashingtonPost.com is no longer running the cartoons of hard-hitting liberal Ted Rall.

Rall said he thinks the site dropped his work because of a Nov. 4 cartoon he did showing a drooling, mentally handicapped student taking over a classroom. ‘The idea was to draw an analogy to the electorate — in essence, the idiots are now running the country,’ he told E&P.”

Most of Rall’s work is head-on liberal material, and a lot of it is very good. Personally, I don’t remember being particularly offended by anything he’s done, and let me be the first to tell you that the mentally retarded are not new ground for him. On occassion, Rall scews toward the obvious or the unrefined in an effort to get a point across. That’s not the sign of an unfunny cartoonist, but that of a man with a message, however unpopular or unconventionally delivered.

Check out his web site.
And his blog.

Here, in his honor, are a few of his recent comics: