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Political Cartoon: Goodbye Marge Tartaglione, a Philadelphia original

Daily takes from Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Signe Wilkinson.

Marge Tartaglione
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The first woman to be elected in a city-wide race wasn’t from a white-gloved feminist group like Women’s Way. Marge Tartaglione, who died this week at 86 years old, was what the Democratic City Committee chair Bob Brady called “a warrior... she was a major fighter." You had to be to make it into what was then a men’s club. Then columnist Steve Lopez gave us a glimpse of life in CIty Hall circa 1988 in his hilarious column on the Boom-Boom sisters at a government meeting in Atlanta. I miss you, Marge Tartaglione, Joan Krajewski, and Ann Land.

Editorial cartoons from this week include:

  1. Jeffrey Epstein’s enablers

  2. Mad Magazine

  3. Fourth of July Flag

  4. For more editorial cartoons, visit inquirer.com/opinion/cartoons/.

    Signe Wilkinson
    Signe Wilkinson has been drawing editorial cartoons for the Philadelphia Daily News since 1985. She is grateful to all the politicians who have done so much for her trade.