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Editorial Cartoons: The Impact and Issues of an Evolving Craft
In their December 2004 issue, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism published a series of articles looking at political cartooning and its position in journalism today. The issue is available for download as a pdf file.
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They were there
Are you studying Reconstruction? The McCarthy era? World War II? View history through the eyes of the political cartoonists.Check the online resources here.
Henry Payne
Henry Payne produces five editorial cartoons a week for The Detroit News. He also writes and draws a column, Payne & Ink, which appears on the paper's Monday Op-Ed page. And his weekly auto industry cartoon, CarToons runs Tuesdays on The News' web site, detnews.com.
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Larry Wright
Larry Wright has been an editorial/op-ed page cartoonist at The Detroit News since 1976, currently drawing three editorial cartoons a week. Wright is a past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists.
Mike Thompson
Mike Thompson is the editorial cartoonist for the Detroit Free Press. He began his career as contributing cartoonist for The Milwaukee Journal and later worked as staff cartoonist for the St. Louis Sun and the Copley Illinois newspapers before joining the Free Press in November 1998.
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The Opper Project: Teaching history through political cartoons
Ohio State University has launched a project that uses editorial cartoons to teach history. You'll find lesson plans, downloadable toons and much more.
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