Cartoon Slideshow: Satirists Welcome the New Pope
Cartoon Slideshow: Satirists’s First Impressions of the new Pope
Electing a new pope is a solemn affair but now that he’s been elected (and it is still a ‘he’), well, Pope Francis is fair game for satirists. In this selection of cartoonists’ first impressions, look for white smoke in the shape of a continent, a reference to tango and more than one allusion to another Argentinian who has touched the hand of God. Hint: he played soccer.
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