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By Gamaliel




1798: John Bull, the personification of the UK, offers his opinion of a poster of King George III as an outraged prime minister William Pitt the Younger declares the act treasonous. Caricaturist Richard Newton's brilliant career as a satirist, which began at age 13, was cut short by typhus at the age of 21 that year.





1814: One of a series of depictions by George Cruikshank of Emperor Napoleon I as "Little Boney", shown here in exile from France on the island of Elba. Cruikshank is remembered today for his illustrations of the works of Charles Dickens, including Oliver Twist.





1852: Winfield Scott and Franklin Pierce were rival candidates in that year's presidential election. John L. Magee depicts them riding birds; Scott taunts Pierce's goose with the words "Don't you wish you had my cock?" Despite the support of Magee's cartoon, Scott lost the election.





1862: A Harper's Weekly cartoonist depicts the consequences of the previous year's inauguration of Jefferson Davis as the President of the Confederate States of America. The war between the Confederacy and the Union would go on to claim an estimated 900,000 lives or more.





1913: A cartoon in the celebrated British magazine Punch depicts President Woodrow Wilson's military foray into the Mexican Revolution, unpopular in the US.





1970: Pulitzer Prize-winner Edmund S. Valtman was known for his caricatures of Cold War-era political leaders, such as Vice President Spiro Agnew, the "hatchet man" of US President Richard Nixon. Agnew, who was famed for his scathing political attacks and employing alliterative epithets like "nattering nabobs of negativism", resigned in disgrace following criminal charges of accepting bribes.





2009: The blistering cartoons of Brazilian artist Carlos Latuff circulate widely on the Internet, though his cartoons about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict have caused him to be accused of antisemitism. Elected promising to end the war in Iraq, President Barack Obama finally withdrew combat troops in 2010, though some 4,400 troops remain in Iraq as "advisors" to this day.
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  • WP:Drop the stick.--v/r - TP 07:27, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • The 1852 presidential election debacle directly led to the creation of the Republican party. But did "cock" mean the same thing back then?--Milowent • hasspoken 14:52, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • I have no idea, but I still giggled like a middle schooler. Gamaliel (talk) 15:38, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
  • Yes. Etymology sources trace "pillicock" as slang back to 1300, and "cock" standing alone to 1610. No snickers on my wording choice, please. Remember that the political cartoons were aimed at "common folk" and getting chuckles was often used, just as Shakespeare's plays contain much innuendo. Collect (talk) 16:21, 14 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
"Almost as much as the goal of the Signpost is to inform it is also to entertain, and this provides the impetus behind some of the publication's lighter-hearted features. The Signpost aims to be a quality online newspaper, after all, and is not an encyclopedia itself, and so allows many things—editorializing, narrative, original research—that would be blasphemy in the article space." Why, that's right there in the Signpost's Statement of Purpose! One would do well to meditate on that... There's also a Galleries tradition here, featuring work which is new or which is not highlighted in a specific article: "These are purely photographic sections containing featured and other high-quality images in a curated, topical form." Thank you, Gamaliel, for putting this together, and for your good humor in this political season.Vesuvius Dogg (talk) 06:53, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]
    • So why is this topical? NE Ent 12:15, 24 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]


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