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As such it is, on the whole, non-political, wishing to be a resource for all advertisers. On Friday though…
I wonder if this is cartoonist Kevvo supporting “Stand With Ann” with a contribution?
For Reasons Unexplained They Love The Gilded Age
This was brave humor in 1900.
Jay Gould and Russell Sage were well-known railroad executives at the time. The joke derives from a 1900 cartoon by Louis W. Dalrymple that suggests such powerful financiers controlled everything. It is one of 73 equally bold cartoons comprising a ballsy new exhibition at the Flagler Museum.
In Old News – Gretel Sarmiento at Palm Beach Arts Paper reviews With a Wink and a Nod: Cartoonists of the Gilded Age, an exhibit that ran at the Flagler Museum in 2015-2016.
In the second half of the 19th century, as the disciplines of epidemiology and public health emerged, newspapers and magazines in the United States began regularly printing editorial cartoons, especially in the new weeklies such as Puck. These early cartoons often lampooned public health problems—poor sanitation, greedy developers, lax regulations—using caricature and humor to stoke outrage in readers.
More recently, this past Thursday, Bert Hansen for Harvard Public Health looks at the state of public health during The Gilded Age of the past (and maybe the near future?).
Nearly Forty Years of Garry Trudeau v. Donald Trump
Since 1987, Garry Trudeau, who cites Feiffer as a key influence, has insulted the inferiority of mind, exposed the defects of body, and aggravated what is hideous about Donald Trump, a man for whom he has always had undisguised contempt, if not hate.
When Trump became a serious contender for the presidency in 2016, GBT’s publisher compiled thirty years of Doonesbury strips about him going back to 1987, when The Donald first floated the idea of running for president. Trudeau notes that the resulting volume, YUGE! was “supposed to be a cautionary recap of the life of a genuinely awful human being.”
Paul Hébert at Reading Doonesbury reviews the long relationship between Garry B. Trudeau and Donald J. Trump as seen in the five Doonesbury collections of comic strips about the current President.
“Garry Trudeau is the ‘sleazeball’ cartoonist who draws the ‘overrated’ comic strip Doonesbury which ‘very few people read.’ He lives in New York City with his wife Jane Pauley, who has ‘far more talent’ than he does.” [Donald Trump]
Adversaries – Presidents and Cartoonists
Editorial cartooning, specifically politically cartooning, thrives at times of urgent public debates and vivid personalities.
This statement sounds trite or self-evident, barely a thesis except that – in a corollary of the “Great Man” theory of studying history – urgent public debates and vivid personalities sometimes are shaped and propelled by speeches, tracts… and cartoons.
Political cartoon historian Rick Marschall looks to cartooning of the past to speculate about the future.
If we return to our thesis – that political cartooning thrives during times of urgent debates and vivid personalities, and vice-versa – then we might well be entering a new Golden Age of political cartooning.
Time will tell, but signs are at hand. The Trump presidency, indeed the Trump phenomenon, provides an unprecedented opportunity for political cartoonists to spread their ink-stained wings as seldom before.
Cartooning During the Second Trump Presidency
Lee Judge has an opinion about cartooning during the Trump years:
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