In his book "The Art of Controversy: Political Cartoons and Their Enduring Power," journalist Victor Navasky writes about caricature's ability to disturb dictators, humble presidents and inflame ...

A political cartoonist for The Washington Post is quitting ... editorial boards publish opinion content by definition and are separate from the newsroom. Furthermore, endorsements involve ...

"Satire" is actually part of the very definition of "cartoon" given in the ENCYCLOPEDIA AMERICANA. According to the EA, cartoon "targets" are most often "in the field of political or public ...

Blitt: I agree. I mean, there are still some people who think that political cartoons are there to change people’s minds, and I just don’t see that at all, or don’t even understand that at all.

Decades later, the connection was cemented by political cartoonist Thomas Nast. In his 1870 Harper’s Weekly cartoon, “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion,” Nast used the donkey to represent ...