The essence of a skilled political comedian is that he understands when to stop being funny...

[jducoeur]

... and Mark Fiore may be the most skillful political comic I know today. If you haven't seen his work, he's essentially a traditional newspaper cartoonist, but his medium is online Flash animations. This week's piece (thanks to jpicon for the pointer) expresses the Katrina debacle more clearly than anything else I've seen so far. Not his funniest piece, but one of his more effective...