political cartoons

Design for the Real World: Elephant and Donkey

March 24, 2018Arts, Culture & Media

Kevin Kallaugher, better known as KAL, has been the cartoonist at The Economist for 30 years. He explains how the donkey and elephant came to represent the parties, and charts their evolution in our culture. Produced by Gretta Cohn.

Cartoon of Trump with hair forming Nazi salute

Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz on satire in a time of Donald Trump

January 22, 2017Culture

A scene from the upcoming Fox animated series, "Bordertown."

Lalo Alcaraz warns the sensitive to avoid his new show, ‘Bordertown’

May 21, 2015Culture

"No Freedom without Freedom of the Press," by Tomi Ungerer, 1992

The man whose anti-war art was too radical for anti-war activists

January 26, 2015Arts

Suited up for the news, a cartoon by Slovakian cartoonist Marian Kemensky.

An international cartoonists’ conference shows off the artists’ wit and predictive power

October 9, 2014Arts

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