Simply the Best

"The Southland," as we SoCals call it, has long been blessed with arguably the greatest practitioners at many a creative craft, from Chick Hearn and Vin Scully behind their respective microphones to Jim Murray and Robert Scheer at their typewriters, from Bob Miller calling hockey games to Jim Healy creating a new art form on the radio, and now Los Angeles has lost Paul Conrad, for my money the best political cartoonist the world has ever seen.

His unyielding liberal stance, delivered as savage black-and-white harpoons, bedeviled Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and others in power while shedding an uncompromising light on social injustices. He drew for The Times for nearly 30 years.

Here's a gallery of some of his greatest work.