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Article: Cartoons, Political
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Cartoons, Political
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Throughout world history, political cartoons have illustrated the age-old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words. Since the sixteenth century, illustrated caricatures have been used as satire, drawing attention to important political and social events of the day. But in 1843, the practice gained a new name when England
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s
Punch
magazine published a drawing parodying preliminary sketches of paintings commissioned for the houses of Parliament.
“
Cartoon No. 1,
”
as the illustration was called, was the first use of the word
cartoon
to describe humorous, satirical, or witty drawings or caricatures. It used simple imagery to ...