Political/editorial cartoons in newspapers

voyage

Hi, I put the following thread in 'Comics Production' by mistake & didn't get any responses, hope it's better here! :

Can anyone please direct me to where I might find information on newspaper cartoons. Just basics like history and types of cartoons etc.

I don't mean comic strips like Jiggs & Maggie or Doonesbury, but single cartoons. I think they're called editorial cartoons.

Thanks.

chin_grin

Wasn't the Far Side in the Evening Herald for a while. Bit high brow for that paper wasn't it? :pac:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side

You might want to contact the papers to ask them that. I'm sure they have an info@ address or questions@.

Fysh

I've changed the thread title to make it clear that you're interested in editorial single-panel cartoons rather than syndicated comic strips like The Far Side or Calvin and Hobbes.

It's not an area I know a great deal about but I have read a little about it in books like Brian Walker's "The Comics" (well worth reading if you're interested in the general history of newspaper comic strips).

You could do worse than take a look at the Wikipedia page on editorial cartoons. I've not read it in depth, but this page has a good introductory history of political/editorial cartoons.

There's also a UK Cartoon Archive associated with the university of Kent, and the London-based Cartoon Museum, both of which have some of their archive material on their website.

Patrick Brown

Here's an article I wrote on the subject.