I had a hankering to see how political satire was visualized in post-Civil War USA. I'm a little surprised (pleased) how few of these panels I actually understand. Some of them I don't get the humor, some I have no idea what they're even referring to; I point this out because I was expecting that the most enduring images would relate to historical events/trends that I had studied at some point. Nope, it appears that in the 1800s everybody bitched about everything all the time. My, how times haven't changed. Also, I'm not sure if people were fatter back then or if cartoonists just had bigger eyes.
https://www.google.com/search?q=19th+century+political+cartoons&rlz=1C1CHTV_enUS539US540&espv=2&biw=1242&bih=619&site=webhp&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0CBwQsARqFQoTCNLIuZ62_8cCFcU_Pgodv-cLuA&dpr=1.1#imgrc=Tw-EBDbFWvamOM%3A
This is the one I was expecting to find:
No comments:
Post a Comment