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“And there is no doubt that a serious political issue, when presented in
the form of a telling cartoon, will be borne home to the minds of a far
larger circle of average every-day men and women than it could ever be
when discussed in the cold black and white of the editorial column.”
–
Arthur
Bartlett Maurice and Frederic Taber Copper
“The power and efficacy of political cartoons has long been
recognized; because of their readability and visual immediacy, they
appeal to and are understood by a wide audience. They take the essence
of a particular situation or character and further distill it into a
single image, telling a clear story in way that is masterful, terse—and
influential way. Collectively, they are “in essence a vernacular record
of the social and political history of a people.”
– William
Murrell
In perhaps the best known example of the force of the political
cartoon, Thomas Nast’s images in Harper’s Weekly played an
important role in the overthrow of the Tweed Ring in 1870s New York
City. An exasperated Boss Tweed is recorded to have demanded of his
henchmen, “Stop them damn pictures. I don’t care so much what the papers
write about me. My constituents can’t read. But, damn it, they can see
pictures.”
The American political cartoon was born in Philadelphia over one
hundred years prior to Nast’s work. This momentous parturition is
sometimes credited to Benjamin Franklin for his famed Join or Die
of 1974, showing a severed snake, its separate parts labeled as
colonies. But four copperplate images, a 1764–65 series, are considered
the true beginning of the tradition in their comic-but-cutting depiction
of a political event, and particularly, of Franklin himself.
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