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Ballyhoo! Posters as Portraiture ...Visit an example-rich exploration of poster art and learn how famous faces have been used to convey meanings and messages across the decades. An excellent resource for discovering how art can be a window into a particular time, Ballyhoo! looks at images from a range of periods in U.S. history, including turn-of-the century America (ca. 1890), World War I, World War II, and the 1960s.

Blondie Gets Married - Everyone knows Blondie. More than 2,000 newspapers publish the comic strip in fifty-five countries and thirty-five languages. The “Dagwood Sandwich” has made its way into Webster’s New World Dictionary. Blondie Gets Married presents twenty-seven drawings,

Cartoons for the Classroom is a service of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists... offers more than one hundred lesson plans based on editorial cartoons created by the members of the AAEC. Each lesson plan is available as free pdf download. As you might expect most of the lessons deal with current political and economic topics, but you will also find some lessons that are not time sensitive.
Daryl Cagle’s Professional Cartoon - Site of Political cartoons from around the world.
Doonesbury Town Hall - Begin your day with a DAILY DOSE of today’s Doonesbury. Use the SEARCH ENGINE to find any strip from the past 30 years...take a retrospective tour of the Doonesbury decades - YALE STRIPS reveals the college proto-Doonesbury feature "Bull Tales,&
Dr. Seuss Went to War: - A Catalog of Political Cartoons by Dr. Seuss
Edmund Valtman : the Cartoonist Who Came - may be the only American cartoonist of the Cold War era who experienced Soviet rule firsthand. The Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist was working as a draftsman in his native Estonia when the Soviets overran the Baltic states in 1940. Russia went to war wi )
FDR Cartoon Archive - contains political cartoons from the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Herblock ’s History - From the stock market crash in 1929 through the new millennium beginning in the year 2000, editorial cartoonist Herb Block has chronicled the nation’s political history, caricaturing twelve American presidents from Herbert Hoover to Bill Clinton.

It's No Laughing Matter: Analyzing Political Cartoons...from the Library of Congress
Mark Fiore ’s animated political cartoons - Fiore draws for newspapers and has more recently branched out into animated political cartoons...the endless hours sitting in front of the T.V. watching cartoons and eating Cheerios have begun to pay off for Fiore!
Monstrous Craws and Character Flaws - Masterpieces of Cartoon and Caricature at the Library of Congress
New York Times Cartoons - Political cartoons and others from the NYT. Registration required.
Oliphant’s Anthem: - sixty cartoon drawings, sketchbooks, and illustrations by one of America’s foremost editorial cartoonists. This exhibition also documents, through additional works on loan to the Library, Oliphant’s efforts to refine his style through prints,...

Opper Project, named after Ohioan Frederick Burr Opper, the first great American-born cartoonist, is an on-line collection of historic editorial cartoons. Covering more than one hundred years of American history, the cartoons are organized topically with associated lesson plans.
the Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk. - Szyk was a skillful caricaturist and a passionate crusader for political causes. From his early childhood in the Polish city of Lodz until his death in New Canaan, Connecticut, he drew inspiration from the history of his people. Szyk found strength in bib
The First Political Cartoons - America’s earliest cartoons were political in nature. The first cartoon appeared in Ben Franklin’s newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. It appeared as part of an editorial by Franklin