Political cartoons have been part and parcel of American and much of Western culture for the last 200 years. Interestingly, according to Stephen Hess and Sandy Northrop, authors of “Drawn ...

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Cartoons, of course, are more than just sketches. They spark, capture and shape political discourse. They editorialize and, often, indict. They depict an ethos, sometimes of the entire nation.

A 1925 cartoon by American artist Bob Minor on the global power shift has gone viral amid Donald Trump's tariff policies.

Many later political cartoonists have used his same general theme in their work. In the American colonies, Benjamin Franklin’s "Join or Die" (1753), which depicted a severed snake representing ...

Along with a history of racist wartime propaganda, other forms of hateful posters and political flyers were persistent throughout the 20th century. The infamous white supremacist group Ku Klux Klan ...

After four long days of post-election uncertainty, Joe Biden was officially declared president-elect on Saturday, November 7. Biden’s win marks the beginning of the end of Donald Trump’s ...

Pia Guerra is one of the most poignant political cartoonists working today, yet she wasn’t even creating such art full time before President Trump. For two decades, the Canadian American ...