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John Leech (29 August 1817 – 29 October 1864) was a British caricaturist and illustrator. [1] He was best known for his work for Punch, a humorous magazine for a broad middle-class audience, combining verbal and graphic political satire with light social comedy.
A political cartoon, also known as an editorial cartoon, is a cartoon graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist's opinion. An artist who writes and draws such images is known as an editorial cartoonist .
Cartoons about the women's rights movement began to appear early on after the first Women's Rights Conventions were held. [63] Cartoons that depicted men and women in roles that are stereotypically held by the opposite gender were also a popular form of criticism of the movement. [64] These types of cartoons remained popular during the 19th ...
In honor of the upcoming election on November 8th, (don't forget to cast your vote!) take a break from this election and see how those before us have expressed themselves about issues of the time ...
The following is a list of comic strips.Dates after names indicate the time frames when the strips appeared. There is usually a fair degree of accuracy about a start date, but because of rights being transferred or the very gradual loss of appeal of a particular strip, the termination date is sometimes uncertain.
James Akin (c. 1773 – 1846) was an American political cartoonist and engraver from South Carolina.He worked in Philadelphia and Newburyport, Massachusetts.Associates included President William Henry Harrison and Jacob Perkins. [1]
The 20th-century New Zealander cartoonist David Low described Hogarth as the grandfather and Gillray the father of the political cartoon. [3] The face of Court Flunkey from the 1980s/1990s British television satirical puppet show Spitting Image is a caricature of Gillray, intended as a homage to the father of political cartooning.
Edward Williams Clay (April 17, 1799 – December 31, 1857 [1]) was an American artist, illustrator and political cartoonist. [2] He created the notoriously racist collection of lithographs titled Life in Philadelphia. [3] [4] He was also a notable comic strip pioneer. [5]