Essays on Political Cartoon

Lisa Benson’s political cartoons are popular in the USA because they are precision, funny, and ironic. The artist often draws new pictures which reflect a particular political event, an inappropriate statement of politicians, or even a Twitter post, and her style is easy to recognize....

Introduction The difference between the public image and the harsh reality is functioned through a visual tool known as political cartoons. This static form of caricature is an exaggeration of physiognomic features that displays a strong critical drawing with a political context. Creating fact bound...

Liberty Bell Cafe This political cartoon represents the discrimination that Native Americans underwent during this time period through the uses of visual rhetorics. As tension is made apparent on the faces of both men in this picture. In this political cartoon the white man was...

This political cartoon shows the Committee on Un-American Activities driving recklessly through the streets, obviously not bothering to care that they were running over people. Chaos is evident, the face with all papers flying all over, parking meters falling over, and general looks of terror...

On the 3rd of June 1992, the High Court of Australia decided that terra-nullius should not have been applied to Australia as the land was in fact occupied by the Aboriginal Peoples. The Mabo Decision acknowledged and declared native land rights to Indigenous Australians which...

Abstract Recently, political cartoons earned great interest from researchers and became a powerful interdisciplinary research field across different research such as sociology, education, communication, and psychology. Political cartoons become a potent tool to transmit thousands of words and diverse messages through a single image. This...

A Political Cartoon provides insight into power relations, prominent social issues, and events by mocking the failings or excuses of the powerful, and thus can hold the leaders accountable. A political cartoon, therefore, holds an important section in Newspapers. The two newspapers selected for the...

In the United States, the participants in the program Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), also known as “Dreamers”, have faced many issues since Donald Trump’s presidency started. DACA is a policy of immigration that allows individuals who were brought at a very young age...

The old English saying “a picture is worth a thousand words” is true; due to the dominance aroused by visual communication in our world. Today, tons of words can be easily reduced in a single image. In this respect, Gunther Kress and Theo Van Leeuwen...

A largely controversial topic has been in the minds of many, especially after mass shootings in schools and public areas. ‘Should we have stricter gun laws?’ There are two sides of this argument. One says that everyone has their 2nd amendment right to bear arms...

Cartoons are often used in politics to make a statement that one may not be willing (or daring enough) to make. It is used to reach a wide audience as cartoons tend to be short and eye-catching, and thus easier to read. The selected cartoon...

A political cartoon, a type of editorial cartoons, is a graphic with characters of public figures, expressing the artist’s opinion. An artist who writes and draws such images is known as an editorial cartoonist. They typically combine artistic skill, hyperbole and satire in order to...

The 2005 Cronulla Riots sparked much controversy throughout Australia regarding how the event reflected ideas deeply embedded within Australian society and culture. It can be said that Australia’s foundation arc is based upon increasingly simmering tension between white Australia and ‘others’ resulting in the ongoing...

In most cases, a cartoon speaks louder than a text, so that is why cartoons are very important and cartoons are highly valuable sources of history because it puts light on events that has taken place in the past. The most important part of a...

The political cartoon ‘The Trumps Tapes We Need…’ was drawn by the American cartoonist Adam Zyglis for the Buffalo News newspaper but became widely known after Zyglis posted it on his Twitter account on October 12th, 2016. The cartoon was published in reference to the...