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Book Drawn to Extremes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Chris Lamb
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780231130677
  • Pages : 300 pages

Download or read book Drawn to Extremes written by Chris Lamb and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2006, a cartoon in a Danish newspaper depicted the Prophet Mohammed wearing a bomb in his turban. The cartoon created an international incident, with offended Muslims attacking Danish embassies and threatening the life of the cartoonist. Editorial cartoons have been called the most extreme form of criticism society will allow, but not all cartoons are tolerated. Unrestricted by journalistic standards of objectivity, editorial cartoonists wield ire and irony to reveal the naked truths about presidents, celebrities, business leaders, and other public figures. Indeed, since the founding of the republic, cartoonists have made important contributions to and offered critical commentary on our society. Today, however, many syndicated cartoons are relatively generic and gag-related, reflecting a weakening of the newspaper industry's traditional watchdog function. Chris Lamb offers a richly illustrated and engaging history of a still vibrant medium that "forces us to take a look at ourselves for what we are and not what we want to be." The 150 drawings in Drawn to Extremes have left readers howling-sometimes in laughter, but often in protest.

Book Graphic Opinions

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  • Author : Jack Colldeweih
  • Publisher : Popular Press
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780879727581
  • Pages : 292 pages

Download or read book Graphic Opinions written by Jack Colldeweih and published by Popular Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through profiles and essays, "Graphic Opinions" examines current work and opinions of two dozen prominent cartoonists.

Book Thomas Nast

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  • Author : Fiona Deans Halloran
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 2013-01-01
  • ISBN : 0807835870
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book Thomas Nast written by Fiona Deans Halloran and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast's legacy also includes a trove of other political cartoons, his successful attack on the machine politics of Tammany Hall in 1871, and his wildly popular illustrations of Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly magazine. In this thoroughgoing and lively biography, Fiona Deans Halloran interprets his work, explores his motivations and ideals, and illuminates the lasting legacy of Nast's work on American political culture"--

Book Attack of the Political Cartoonists

Download or read book Attack of the Political Cartoonists written by J. P. Trostle and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biographical sketches of American editorial cartoonists, with samples of their work.

Book Best Editorial Cartoons 2012

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  • Author : Charles Brooks
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2011-12-06
  • ISBN : 9781455616152
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Best Editorial Cartoons 2012 written by Charles Brooks and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-12-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comic journalism at its best. In 2011, we said farewell to Elizabeth Taylor and Betty Ford and good riddance to Osama bin Ladin. The ever-waning reputation of Pres. Barack Obama prompted Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, and Donald Trump to put in their bids for the presidential election. While gas prices and the national debt rose higher than the possibility of sending another manned craft into space, the scandalous Casey Anthony trial resurfaced memories of O. J. and Nicole Simpson. The latest annual edition of this collection contains these and many other controversial comments referencing politics, the economy, sports, foreign affairs, government, and pop culture.

Book Red Lines

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  • Author : Cherian George
  • Publisher : MIT Press
  • Release : 2021-08-31
  • ISBN : 026254301X
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Red Lines written by Cherian George and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lively graphic narrative reports on censorship of political cartoons around the world, featuring interviews with censored cartoonists from Pittsburgh to Beijing. Why do the powerful feel so threatened by political cartoons? Cartoons don't tell secrets or move markets. Yet, as Cherian George and Sonny Liew show us in Red Lines, cartoonists have been harassed, trolled, sued, fired, jailed, attacked, and assassinated for their insolence. The robustness of political cartooning--one of the most elemental forms of political speech--says something about the health of democracy. In a lively graphic narrative--illustrated by Liew, himself a prize-winning cartoonist--Red Lines crisscrosses the globe to feel the pulse of a vocation under attack. A Syrian cartoonist insults the president and has his hands broken by goons. An Indian cartoonist stands up to misogyny and receives rape threats. An Israeli artist finds his antiracist works censored by social media algorithms. And the New York Times, caught in the crossfire of the culture wars, decides to stop publishing editorial cartoons completely. Red Lines studies thin-skinned tyrants, the invisible hand of market censorship, and demands in the name of social justice to rein in the right to offend. It includes interviews with more than sixty cartoonists and insights from art historians, legal scholars, and political scientists--all presented in graphic form. This engaging account makes it clear that cartoon censorship doesn't just matter to cartoonists and their fans. When the red lines are misapplied, all citizens are potential victims.

Book Politics  Ink

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  • Author : Edward J. Lordan
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780742536388
  • Pages : 212 pages

Download or read book Politics Ink written by Edward J. Lordan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2006 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the history of American editorial cartooning, discussing the importance of editorial cartooning and its contribution to the nation's development.

Book Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year

Download or read book Best Editorial Cartoons of the Year written by Charles Brooks and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One book, in fact the only one we know of, where you can enjoy the best of the year in one place.' 'Hollywood Inside Syndicate. A plummeting global economy, a worldwide energy crisis, and the historic election of Barack Obama as the country's 44th president were the major issues in 2008. This annual compilation of more than 400 cartoons by some 165 editorial cartoonists showcases their finest works in exploring and offering pithy commentary on a wide range of political and cultural topics. From Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to John McCain, from Joe Biden to Sarah Palin, these thought-provoking examples of the cartoonist's art span the spectrum from liberal to conservative and include the year's major award-winning cartoons.

Book You Get Two For the Price of One

Download or read book You Get Two For the Price of One written by Ed Gamble and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1995-06-30 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his introduction, Ed Gamble points out the intriguing relationship of political cartoonist and politician. It is a relationship that can range from downright antagonistic to one of mutual praise. While political cartoonists would have a hard time making a livelihood without politicians, politicians often do wish that they were living without editorial cartoonists. It is a sentiment one might infer from the forewords by former presidents George Bush and Gerald Ford. President Bush discusses how you have to "take the good with the bad" in the world of editorial cartoons. "Grin and bear it," he says, "that's the best way." President Ford feels that humor is "indispensible to democracy" and the "clearest and most resounding expression of freedom that we have," although he too has felt the sting of cartoonist attacks. Overall, his best advice after nearly three decades of political service in the nation's capital is to "smile; maybe the next one will be nicer." In this collection of cartoons, the editorial cartoonist for the Florida Times-Union focuses on the ups, downs, and pitfalls of the political world. The title refers to Bill and Hillary Clinton, the subject of the first seven chapters. These chapters include: "In the Beginning: The Campaign," "Bill and Hillary Take Over," "Foreign Affairs: The New Confused Order," "Domestic Affairs: More Disorder!," "Hillary's Health Care," "Whitewater, and Foreign Affairs II: Help!" Other chapters discuss topics from the O. J. Simpson trial to the November 1994 elections to the new Republican agenda.

Book Pioneering Cartoonists of Color

Download or read book Pioneering Cartoonists of Color written by Tim Jackson and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Syndicated cartoonist and illustrator Tim Jackson offers an unprecedented look at the rich yet largely untold story of African American cartoon artists. This book provides a historical record of the people who created seventy-plus comic strips, many editorial cartoons, and illustrations for articles. The volume covers the mid-1880s, the early years of the self-proclaimed Black press, to 1968, when African American cartoon artists were accepted in the so-called mainstream. When the cartoon world was preparing to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the American comic strip, Jackson anticipated that books and articles published upon the anniversary would either exclude African American artists or feature only the three whose work appeared in mainstream newspapers after Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968. Jackson was determined to make it impossible for critics and scholars to plead an ignorance of Black cartoonists or to claim that there is no information on them. He began in 1997 cataloging biographies of African American cartoonists, illustrators, and graphic designers, and showing samples of their work. His research involved searching historic newspapers and magazines as well as books and “Who's Who” directories. This project strives not only to record the contributions of African American artists, but also to place them in full historical context. Revealed chronologically, these cartoons offer an invaluable perspective on American history of the Black community during pivotal moments, including the Great Migration, race riots, the Great Depression, and both World Wars. Many of the greatest creators have already died, so Jackson recognizes the stakes in remembering them before this hidden, yet vivid, history is irretrievably lost.

Book The Art of Controversy

Download or read book The Art of Controversy written by Victor S Navasky and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated, witty, and original look at the awesome power of the political cartoon throughout history to enrage, provoke, and amuse. As a former editor of The New York Times Magazine and the longtime editor of The Nation, Victor S. Navasky knows just how transformative—and incendiary—cartoons can be. Here Navasky guides readers through some of the greatest cartoons ever created, including those by George Grosz, David Levine, Herblock, Honoré Daumier, and Ralph Steadman. He recounts how cartoonists and caricaturists have been censored, threatened, incarcerated, and even murdered for their art, and asks what makes this art form, too often dismissed as trivial, so uniquely poised to affect our minds and our hearts. Drawing on his own encounters with would-be censors, interviews with cartoonists, and historical archives from cartoon museums across the globe, Navasky examines the political cartoon as both art and polemic over the centuries. We see afresh images most celebrated for their artistic merit (Picasso's Guernica, Goya's "Duendecitos"), images that provoked outrage (the 2008 Barry Blitt New Yorker cover, which depicted the Obamas as a Muslim and a Black Power militant fist-bumping in the Oval Office), and those that have dictated public discourse (Herblock’s defining portraits of McCarthyism, the Nazi periodical Der Stürmer’s anti-Semitic caricatures). Navasky ties together these and other superlative genre examples to reveal how political cartoons have been not only capturing the zeitgeist throughout history but shaping it as well—and how the most powerful cartoons retain the ability to shock, gall, and inspire long after their creation. Here Victor S. Navasky brilliantly illuminates the true power of one of our most enduringly vital forms of artistic expression.

Book The Clyde Wells Cartoon Book

Download or read book The Clyde Wells Cartoon Book written by Clyde Wells and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Best of Fisher

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  • Author : George Fisher
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 1993-01-01
  • ISBN : 1557282692
  • Pages : 270 pages

Download or read book The Best of Fisher written by George Fisher and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection of the best from the Arkansas cartoonists offers readers Fisher's unique insights on a great variety of topics--from Orval Faubus to Bill Clinton. By the author of There You Go Again. Simultaneous.

Book Best Editorial Cartoons 2011

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  • Author : Charles Brooks
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2010-12-13
  • ISBN : 9781589809017
  • Pages : 216 pages

Download or read book Best Editorial Cartoons 2011 written by Charles Brooks and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-12-13 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best cartoons from North American editorial cartoonists capture and preserve the news-making events of 2010.

Book Jim Morin s World

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  • Author : Jim Morin
  • Publisher : Mango Media Inc.
  • Release : 2017-02-08
  • ISBN : 1633535061
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Jim Morin s World written by Jim Morin and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best editorial cartoons from the Miami Herald’s Jim Morin, “one of the great under-appreciated cartoonists of the last quarter century” (The Comics Reporter). Political cartoonists distill opinions about power and culture into art and commentary with the sharp points of their pens Most recently, during and after Election 2016, the remarkable artist’s pen of Jim Morin has produced a steady stream of Donald Trump cartoons that have both delighted and infuriated followers, depending upon their side of the Donald Trump divide. This book of best cartoons by Jim Morin is both funny and poignant. It is a nostalgic journey through the last forty years of the comedy and reality of our world. Upon awarding the prestigious Herblock Prize to Jim Morin in 2007, Harry Katz, the Herb Block Foundation curator, praised this two-time Pulitzer Prize winner for his “impressive, unrelenting barrage of cartoons and caricatures displaying artistry, courage and conviction.” Morin should also be praised for his wit and timely wry sense of humor, which has been a staple of the Miami Herald since 1978. Jim Morin’s World: 40 Years of Social Commentary From A Two-Time Pulitzer Prize–Winning Cartoonist is a collection of some of the best cartoons by this gifted artist and commentator on our times. “We’re lucky to have one of the very best, waiting with pen in hand to carve up the phonies, blowhards, crooks and hypocrites who make headlines. They might not want to end up in a Jim Morin cartoon, but they will.” —Carl Hiaasen, from the foreword

Book Prizewinning Political Cartoons

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  • Author : Dean P. Turnbloom
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
  • Release : 2012-03-01
  • ISBN : 9781589808881
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Prizewinning Political Cartoons written by Dean P. Turnbloom and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide and national events generated a fountain of political commentary in 2010 from editorial cartoonists in North America. This fascinating collection features the winners and finalists for ten major editorial cartooning awards for that year. The Pulitzer, Fischetti, National Headliner, Berryman, and many more awards contests are included here, with information about those organizations, biographies and photos of the winning cartoonists, and a sampling of their outstanding cartoons.

Book Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion

Download or read book Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion written by Michael Ramirez and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-10-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Everyone Has the Right to My Opinion, Michael Ramirez, the internationally known editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily, offers a comprehensive collection of his award-winning cartoons, accompanied by an introduction to the images highlighted throughout the book. Each cartoon shows that a picture is worth a thousand words and transforms the news of the day into eye-catching, provocative, and hilarious images that draw people into the democratic process. His commentary on everything from the economy and markets to politics and international affairs offers a unique perspective on today's issues.