With the November election finally coming to pass in the next couple of weeks, many of us will not miss the daily barrage of radio, television, billboard and internet political ads touting or ...

“The late 1700s and early 1800s were the first of ... they didn’t see drawings as a threat,” Scheibel said. The political cartoon’s second great era occurred between 1930 and 1970, he ...

Funny, provocative and always controversial, original political satirical cartoons date back to the 1700s. Now, the time-honored political tradition is making a comeback on Sunday mornings on CNN ...

Although political cartoons were popular in Europe in the 1700s, their evolution in the United States began with a drawing by Ben Franklin published in 1754. Advocating a unification of the ...

Political satire became popular in the American colonies in the early 1700s, as the colonists fought for independence from Britain. Since many people were illiterate, cartoons provided important ...