15 Historic Cartoons That Changed The World

[Autumn]

Last edited Wed Dec 23, 2015, 12:09 PM - Edit history (1)

http://www.buzzfeed.com/victornavasky/15-historic-cartoons-that-changed-the-world#.drAw1PBoq
Art critics, art historians, aestheticians, and others too often tend to dismiss cartoons and caricatures as silly — not serious — trivial, and irrelevant. Yet as the following list of cartoons and caricatures that have wreaked havoc throughout history should make clear, cartoons can have a powerful psychological, emotional, and political impact.

The Library of Congress has a Digital collection of Political Cartoons and how they have shaped Public Debates. The collection is fascinating. I highly recommend it.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/political-cartoons/

An editorial cartoon, also known as a political cartoon, is an illustration containing a commentary that usually relates to current events or personalities. An artist who draws such images is known as an editorial cartoonist.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editorial_cartoon
They typically combine artistic skill, hyperbole and satire in order to question authority and draw attention to corruption and other social ills.
Political cartoons can usually be found on the editorial page of many newspapers, although a few (such as Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury) are sometimes placed on the regular comic strip page. Most cartoonists use visual metaphors and caricatures to address complicated political situations, and thus sum up a current event with a humorous or emotional picture.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editorial_cartoon

When I logged on this morning and I read my inbox I decided to look up the history of political cartoons and it really is an interesting one.
A cartoon was posted last night here in our group that certainly seems to have underscored the effect that cartoon have on people It was sent to a jury and the jury chose to leave it The responses in the thread were interesting as were comments sent in to the hosts.

-- Reason: This discussion thread violates the Statement of Purpose for this forum.
-- Alerter's comments: This is exactly what I expect from the Bernie group. Leave it up and carry on. No complaints here.

-- Reason: This discussion thread violates the Statement of Purpose for this forum.
-- Alerter's comments: This groups SOP is support of Bernie Sanders, not support of the Tea Party.

-- Reason: This discussion thread violates the Statement of Purpose for this forum.
-- Alerter's comments: This shouldn't be here, it's clearly sourced from a very right wing website. This post should be locked as it does nothing to advance the SOP of this group.

-- Reason: This discussion thread violates the Statement of Purpose for this forum.
-- Alerter's comments:
This is the page for the group promoting this cartoon:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americans_for_Limited_Government
This is the Purile founder of said group
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Rich

This is his website to his anti freedombullshitracistfascist website
http://getliberty.org


Nice the way your supposedly 'liberal', 'progressive', BERNIE SANDERS GROUP HOSTS, have no damn problem with promoting toons from racist/fascist rightwingers. Oooh!! I know that your group Cannot EVER do the right thing and lock this kinda right wing nutjobbery, but it really just makes it crystal clear what the agenda of this little group is.

It's really not so little

-- Reason: This discussion thread violates the Statement of Purpose for this forum.
-- Alerter's comments: http://netrightdaily.com/2015/12/cartoon-the-last-fiscal-cliff/

I forgot to send you their blog page. MOAR CARTOONS for ya!!

Best part of this? This fact that you guys swear that you are the LEFT but get trolled right wing cartoons and bullcrap constantly. Maybe not so left eh? Lololol. This is tragic. This is promoting right wing ideology. I mean, y'all coulda googled the name of the group long time ago, hours ago.

Cartoons certainly do have an impact on people

[enough]

1. The Victor Navasky post in your first link is fascinating on many levels. Well worth a close read.

Thanks for posting that.

[Autumn]

2. That was excellent and the collection of the Library of Congress

was really something. Still looking there. The history of political cartoons is simply wonderful.

[Scuba]

3. I like the one featuring Hillary's trusted advisor ...

[Autumn]

4. The one that really gave me pause and hit on all cylenders was the one by

Art Spiegelman.

[Scuba]

5. Also excellent and more relevant than ever. Thanks.

[Autumn]

6. It was. Your welcome.

[Jim Lane]

7. I'm surprised he omitted the "Gerrymander" cartoon.

This is the cartoon that gave us the word "gerrymander" because a Massachusetts district, shaped to benefit the allies of Governor Elbridge Gerry, struck cartoonist Elkanah Tisdale as resembling a monster (once he added wings). It came to be called a Gerrymander with the last syllables of "salamander" added to Gerry's name.

[Puglover]

8. The folks that whine

loudest about perpetually outraged on this website are generally the ones most guilty of that trait.

Meh.

[roguevalley]

9. brilliant. wonderful. thank you. those who have a problem with this are

sad to me.