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Political cartoons serve to simplify complex political issues and events through visual symbols and humor in order to raise awareness, encourage debate, and influence public opinion. They work by emphasizing one perspective through exaggerated drawings and characters that help viewers quickly understand the message. To analyze a political cartoon, one examines the visual symbols and significant words to understand the event being depicted and infer the cartoonist's viewpoint on the issue being addressed.
Political cartoons serve to simplify complex political issues and events through visual symbols and humor in order to raise awareness, encourage debate, and influence public opinion. They work by emphasizing one perspective through exaggerated drawings and characters that help viewers quickly understand the message. To analyze a political cartoon, one examines the visual symbols and significant words to understand the event being depicted and infer the cartoonist's viewpoint on the issue being addressed.
Political cartoons serve to simplify complex political issues and events through visual symbols and humor in order to raise awareness, encourage debate, and influence public opinion. They work by emphasizing one perspective through exaggerated drawings and characters that help viewers quickly understand the message. To analyze a political cartoon, one examines the visual symbols and significant words to understand the event being depicted and infer the cartoonist's viewpoint on the issue being addressed.
• The understanding of Politics and a society in a certain
period of time can be known and understood not only through texts but also through cartoons or caricature. • Philippine Political cartoons gained full expression during American Period. • Historian and Cartoonist Alfred McCoy’s extensive research in Philippine and American Archives provide a comprehensive background not only to the cartoonist but to the turbulent period as well. WHY USE POLITICAL CARICATURE? For propaganda To draw attention to an idea or event To present a point of view To encourage a course of action To stimulate debate on an event or idea To entertain and inform To catch the reader and get their attention Subject A Political Race – the Election of 1860
Symbols Running is a symbol for a political campaign
Message The tallest and fastest – the leading candidate
WHY USE POLITICAL CARICATURES?
People with minimal reading abilities could understand and
relate to a format that communicated powerful ideas in a humorous manner. Symbols, caricature, drawings, and exaggerations drawn by the cartoonist, point out the themes and problems of that historical era. Political cartoons play an important part in telling the history of an era. Political cartoons serve to make people think about political and government issues by:
• providing readers with additional viewpoints
assuming the reader has enough background knowledge about the issues; • to understand the message; • emphasizing one side of an issue or concern; • utilizing humor; • relying on drawings to make a point HOW TO ANALYZE A CARTOON Level 1 – Visuals - Look at the objects or people in the cartoon Words – Look at the caption , title , and any dates or numbers in the cartoon Level 2 - Visuals – What symbols do you see & what do they mean for this time period? Words – What phrases or words are most significant & what emotions do they evoke? WHEN LOOKING AT A POLITICAL CARICATURE • Think what event or issue inspired the cartoon. • Are there any real people in the cartoon? Who is portrayed in the cartoon? • Are there symbols in the cartoon and what might they mean? • What is the cartoonist’s opinions about the topic? • Do you agree or disagree with the cartoonist’s opinion? MAKING YOUR OWN CARICATURE • Begin with a clear idea or event • A cartoon is not literal, but should make the viewer use their imagination. • Avoid cluttering up the white space • Exaggeration, symbols, stereotypes and characters help the viewer grasp the concept quickly. • You don’t have to know how to draw- but it helps. ANALYZE THIS ONE. LOOK AT LABELS AND SYMBOLS