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This reference traces the historical background of editorial cartooning and presents works that chronicle the history and criticize the aesthetics of the art. It also describes anthologies and exhibition catalogs that reprint editorial cartoons, and provides a list of libraries, museums, and historical societies which house originals and photocopies or clippings of editorial cartoons. This expansive volume examines the American editorial cartoon from its beginnings in 1747 into the second Clinton administration. It fills a gap in the literature, providing comprehensive information on a field of growing interest to scholars and collectors.
This reference guide studies the evolution of editorial cartooning and places it in its historical context and provides appreciation and criticism of the cartoons presented. In addition to political cartoons, underground, radical, and propaganda cartoons are also discussed in this volume. The appendixes offer important cross-reference tools such as a chronology and include listings of selected historical periodicals, theses, and dissertations covering political cartoons. This work will be of value to a broad spectrum of readers-from collectors to scholars-and is suitable for many fields of study.
List of contents
Preface
Historical Background
History and Criticism
Anthologies and Reprints
Reference Works and Periodicals
Research Collections Held in Public and Private Institutions
Appendix 1: Selected Chronology
Appendix 2: Selected How-to Books with Some Relevance to Editorial Cartooning
Appendix 3: Selected Theses and Dissertations in the Humanities and Social Sciences Dealing with Editorial Cartoons
Appendix 4: Selected Historic Periodicals Using Political Cartoons/Graphics
Appendix 5: Selected Bibliography of Single-Artist Anthologies, Excluding Illustrated Volumes
Index
About the author
PAUL P. SOMERS, JR. is Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University, East Lansing. He has published articles on American literature and American humor, including editorial cartooning, and a book on Southwestern humorist Johnson J. Hooper (1984). His fiction and satire have appeared in Harper's and various literary magazines, as well as National Lampoon, to which he was a contributing editor.
