Is it really OK that the Americans, Canadians, French and New Zealanders manage to do better by their cartoon and comic heritage than Australia?
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Articles on Political cartoons
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Bruce Petty woke editorial cartooning from a sleepy period telling fairly anodyne jokes and turned it into a mode of serious – if also often hilarious – satirical commentary on politics and society.
A cartoon commemorating the death of King William IV in 1837 would have been unthinkable; by the time Queen Victoria died in 1901, newspapers had changed.
A Venezuelan cartoon character has been adopted by the government to help their popularity.
Fat people need to be empowered to critique the very groups so willing to instrumentalize their bodies for political gain.
The iconic image may have originated with a meat supplier named Samuel Wilson. Or not.
Royal satire has softened over the last 300 years, but audiences are more sensitive to barbs against the institution.
Humour is a way for Congolese internet users to prod at cultural traits and political developments – despite censorship being rife.
A new film uses pastiche to explore the whimsical world of cartoonist Michael Leunig - but the man himself gives little away and the film skates over his curlier controversies.
A New York Times decision has led to predictions of the death of cartooning. But rather than perishing, is the global art form just feeling the full force of technological and workplace change?
Political and editorial cartoons are a key indicator of the democratic health of a country - but they can also be regressive.
The artist who illustrated A Christmas Carol was one of the best-known satirists of his time.
One of the great satirical achievements of the mass media era, the editorial cartoon, is losing its centrality in the digital age. Yet the ‘visual terrorism’ of cartoons can cut through the verbiage of political commentary.
Bill Leak divided his audience, image by image. Causing offence was a KPI for him, not a risk.
A young Iranian detained on Manus Island has won a prestigious international award for his cartoons reflecting life there. Our government should allow this young man to fly to the US to accept his award.
Bill Leak’s cartoon of a drunk Aboriginal father who doesn’t know his son’s name exemplifies a long tradition of white men’s fantasies about the inferiority of Aboriginal people.
Two recent controversial cartoons depicting people as apes have raised an important question: what are the legal and philosophical distinctions between harm and offence?
Ten years after the Danish cartoon crisis, it’s time to discuss how freedom of religion and freedom of speech can coexist.
From a vertically challenged Napoleon to a drunken prince, James Gillray inspired cartoonists for centuries.
Books and the ballot box have a long and winding history.
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