By: Christopher Torchia, Associated Press
ATHENS (AP).- The ancient philosophers had their golden age. Now it’s the turn of Greek newspaper cartoonists. The economic crisis that threatens to go global offers a bonanza for satirists with a talent for the scathing image or caption. Cartoonists have portrayed the Greek economy as the Titanic, that eternal symbol of disaster; Greek leaders as buffoons shielded from mobs by robotic police with gas masks and truncheons; and ordinary Greeks as beggars, at the mercy of fat cats in top hats who represent international creditors. “Bad times are good times for cartoonists,” said Maria Tzaboura, a cartoonist for the Greek newspaper Proto Thema who sees humor as a form of protest and “less is more” as a guide for her simply drawn victims of circumstance, their limbs scattered about