Dear Editor,

Your cartoonist, Clovis, is to my mind easily the most talented cartoonist in Jamaica today. His excellent precision in capturing faces, features and mannerisms of newsmakers of all kinds from everywhere ranks him among the best in the world. Hence, my concern.

Here is a great talent wasted on a rabid partisanship that many times crosses the line of vulgarity and sometimes borders on obscenity. It is a waste of talent.

All over the world news media take sides, and some of us would now be most cognisant of United States President-elect Donald Trump’s railings against what he calls the left-leaning liberals in the media, and he has gone as far as targeting

The New York Times and CNN as being among the leaders of the pack. But all of that is par for the course in the same way that FOX News is shamelessly Republican and MSNBC is shamelessly Democratic.

Still, all of the above precisely defines why I suggest to cartoonist Clovis that he can be far more subtle in advancing his political bias.

I grew up on the legendary cartoonist Leandro, whose hilarious and often trenchant jokes became the subject of much discussion in my home. As a child I often learned a lot just hearing the comments from the adults in my home as they laughed at Leandro’s latest jokes.

So here is a word of advice to Cartoonist Clovis: Do justice to your exceptional talents. I, along with many Jamaicans, look forward to your biting humour and commentary in your daily cartoons. But I visit them now, only for the laugh. Build your legacy so that generations will revere you in the same way some of us now revere Leandro.

Hopeton Morrison

Kingston 8

hmorrison@cwjamaica.com