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Week 1: 3/31-4/2
Tuesday: Introductions: Get to know the syllabus.
Thursday: What is Editorial Cartooning and why is it important? Read: Online:
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"Lethal Weapon" by Anthony Geoffroy |
Week 2: 4/7-4/9
Tuesday: Mid-19th century illustrated news
Read: Watch: The video below on the history of editorial cartooning. Thursday: Early Stars: Thomas Nast and Harper's Weekly
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Week 3: 4/14-4/16
Tuesday: The Humor Magazine in the 19th & Early 20th Century
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Cartoon Analysis due Tuesday, 4/14 Thursday: Cartooning the Spanish-American War Read: Watch:
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Grant Hamilton's cover for Judge humor magazine depicting "The Spanish Brute." (Click on image to enlarge.)
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Week 4: 4/21-4/23
Tuesday: Can you create editorial cartoons without drawing? We'll explore this possibility.
Cartoon Analysis due Tuesday, 4/21 Thursday: Back to the past—the woman's suffrage movement and how nasty things can get. Read: |
One of suffrage artist/cartoonist Nina Allender's numerous covers for Alice Paul's Suffragist magazine. (Click on image to enlarge.)
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Week 5: 4/28-4/29
Tuesday: Editorial cartooning and war.
Read: Drawing Swords: War in American Editorial Cartoons Comic art in WWII Cartoons, Psychological Warfare, and WWII Cartoon Analysis due Tuesday, 4/28 Thursday: Meet the cartoonists
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HItler's early victories in Europe alarmed the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France and the US here depicted in the bottom corner). The cartoonist depicts Hitler’s progress through these nations as a trapeze athlete swinging from rung to rung. The caption comes from a popular song from the time called “The Man on the Flying Trapeze,” which includes the lyrics, “He’d fly through the air with greatest of ease/that daring young man on the flying trapeze.” By Vaughn Shoemaker (Chicago: The Daily News, 1941) (Click on image to enlarge.)
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Week 6: 5/5-5/7
Tuesday: Cartoons and crisis
Thursday: Cartoonists and the chilling effect of fear.
View: The cartoon at right by Joe Sacco on the reaction to Charlie Hebdo. |
Week 7: 5/12-5/13
Tuesday: Editorial cartoons and the free speech question
Cartoon Analysis due Tuesday, 5/12 Thursday: A different format—long-form editorial cartooning
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One of Walt Kelly's most famous lines from his long-running social commentary strip "Pogo." It became a poster for the annual Earth Day celebration.
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Week 8: 5/19-5/20
Tuesday: Team presentations of rough ideas.
Cartoon Analysis due Tuesday, 5/19
Thursday: I will be away at a conference; however, the classroom is available at the usual time for team meetings and working on your presentations. If I were you, I would take advantage of the opportunity. The AV equipment is yours to use if you want.
- Each team should be prepared to give a 5-minute account of their presentation topic.
Cartoon Analysis due Tuesday, 5/19
Thursday: I will be away at a conference; however, the classroom is available at the usual time for team meetings and working on your presentations. If I were you, I would take advantage of the opportunity. The AV equipment is yours to use if you want.
Week 9: 5/26-5/28
Tuesday: Group presentations: Teams 1, 2, 3
Thursday: Group presentations: Teams 4, 5, 6, 7
Thursday: Group presentations: Teams 4, 5, 6, 7
Week 10: 6/2-6/3
Tuesday: Group presentations: Teams 8, 9, 10
Thursday: The present and future of editorial cartooning. Read:
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Final "Paper": due at 8:00 a.m., Monday, June 8
A finished cartoon accomplished completely by you.
-- You should come up with a current social or political issue, and take a clear position on it.
-- Decide on your approach for stating your position: serious, humorous, sarcasm, irony, etc.
-- Decide on your artistic technique. Some options include:
-- Decide on what symbols and/or words (including labels, speech balloons, or captions) you will use to clarify your message.
-- When your cartoon is finished, save it as an image file that can be uploaded to the blog post labeled "Final Cartoon."
-- Along with the image, Write up a brief summary as to how you went about this assignment, including how you decided on the various steps listed above. Upload the summary as a pdf file.
-- You should come up with a current social or political issue, and take a clear position on it.
-- Decide on your approach for stating your position: serious, humorous, sarcasm, irony, etc.
-- Decide on your artistic technique. Some options include:
- Hand drawn using any medium. It can be black & white or color.
- Photographic collage using existing photos found online. They can be used as is or manipulated as suits your needs. A warning, however—just a photo with speech balloons is much less interesting than a more creative approach involving some visual creativity.
- If you can think of other creative approaches, including multi-media, go for it!
-- Decide on what symbols and/or words (including labels, speech balloons, or captions) you will use to clarify your message.
-- When your cartoon is finished, save it as an image file that can be uploaded to the blog post labeled "Final Cartoon."
-- Along with the image, Write up a brief summary as to how you went about this assignment, including how you decided on the various steps listed above. Upload the summary as a pdf file.