Opposite editorial page

This is another approach for illustration invented by New York Times. They creates a page in a newspaper letting illustrator to fill in a clever illustration and also leave a blank for the audience to fill in.

The op ed style allow open attitude for everybody. The illustrator doesn't need to make work under the editor's word or follow the article but made work from its theme, which will be more long live recognize than a topic. The illustration can be totally opposite to the text or in any point of view but the message is how people interpret them through visual and text. What message that they would receive and how are their opinion to that particular theme, this is the most important. The illustrator can so best in make visual to lead the new ideas and make people to interpret by their own way or by their experience.
The famous illustrators such as Brad Holland, Paul Kolsti, etc.

Op Ed has many principles to learn from. This style of illustration is clever and meaningful. I think this is an approach that can be adapt in other media efficiently.

For more details in Op Ed style,
You can watching the video on NY times website below:
New York Times: OP ED at 40