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Political Cartooning: Steve Sack for the Star Tribune

June 4, 2020

Veteran, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Steve Sack takes a straightforward approach. Instantly recognisable: the police car, the state, the policeman kneeling on the neck of a downed person, that person’s embodiment as Justice, the mode of that murder. The message is just as easy to parse ...

Comics, Opinion, Political Comics, Roundtables

Analyzing The Nib’s “Vote or Else!”

November 5, 2018

Last week, The Nib ran a comic entitled Vote or Else!, which is the work of Filipino-American cartoonist and illustrator, Niccolo Pizarro. The comic, presented initially without context, paints voter registration efforts and their proponents as insensitive to the plights of marginalized peoples ...

Comics, Interviews, Political Comics

Pia Guerra Gets Political

October 3, 2018

Pia Guerra is best known as the co-creator and lead penciler of Y: The Last Man, but these days you’re more likely to spot her work on The Nib or in the New Yorker. Starting in 2017, Guerra has been drawing detailed editorial cartoons, tackling issues like school shootings, immigration, ...

Comics, Political Comics

Politically Cartoonish: Remember June?

August 24, 2017

Hello, and welcome to the June edition of Politically Cartoonish. Apologies for the lateness of June’s column. As with the rest of WWAC, the Politically Cartoonish column is working to include analyses of non-U.S. and non-Western issues. Readers are encouraged to send political cartoon ...

Comic Strips, Comics, Opinion, Political Comics

Politically Cartoonish: Judging April

May 18, 2017

Hello, and welcome to the April edition of Politically Cartoonish. As with the rest of WWAC, the Politically Cartoonish column is working to include analyses of non-U.S. and non-Western issues. Readers are encouraged to send political cartoon suggestions to the author via her Twitter handle ...

Comic Strips, Comics, Political Comics

Politically Cartoonish: Judging March

April 13, 2017

Welcome back to Politically Cartoonish, WWAC’s new monthly political cartoons column! As always, WWAC seeks to examine a variety of viewpoints and issues in consideration of its international audience. Readers can (and please do!) send political cartoon suggestions to the author via her ...

Comics, Political Comics

Politically Cartoonish: Judging February

March 10, 2017

Welcome to WWAC’s newest monthly column “Politically Cartoonish” where we’ll be analyzing the art and message of five political cartoons every month. It’s been a little over a month since the new U.S. administration came into power, so it’s no surprise that ...

Profiles & Primers

Political Cartooning and How to Survive the Pitfalls of the Internet

September 28, 2016

I’ve been cartooning a long time, and in the last year as our society has boiled over with all of its longstanding ills, drawing has felt like the best way I know how to preserve my sanity so, armed with a pencil, I took a sharp turn away from fiction and toward social commentary. I ...

political cartoons

Political Cartooning: Steve Sack for the Star Tribune

Analyzing The Nib’s “Vote or Else!”

Pia Guerra Gets Political

Politically Cartoonish: Remember June?

Politically Cartoonish: Judging April

Politically Cartoonish: Judging March

Politically Cartoonish: Judging February

Political Cartooning and How to Survive the Pitfalls of the Internet

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