Other Resources about Political Cartoons:

• Library of Congress, Cartoon America, the ungentlemanly Art: Political Illustrations

• National Archives:  Running for Office, Candidates, Campaigns & The Cartons fo Clifford Berryman

• First Amendment Museum: Art & Politics, 300 Years of Political Cartoons

• Smithsonian National Museum of American History: Poking fun at the crowded presidential race - in the 1880s, Sept. 2015 

• PBS NewsHour: Political cartoonists on navigating a changing media landscape, Apr. 2025

• USA Today: No more editorial cartoons?,  Feb. 2017

• Cartoon Movement: The decline of editorial cartoons (and how to stop it), Jul. 2023

• Southwestern Illinois College: Librarian Topic Guides - Editorial/Political Cartoons, Aug. 2024

 

Other Resources about Humor as a Political Strategy:

• Using Humor to Put an Oppressive Government in a Lose-Lose Situation, New Tactics in Human Rights, December 2019

• Humorous Political Stunts: Nonviolent Public Challenges to Power, The Commons Social Change Library, November 2024

• Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution, Fourteen East, May 2025

• (Un)Funny Against All Odds: The Changing Landscape of Humour in Politics, Sage Journals, February 2025

• ​The Power of Laughter: How Humor Shapes Social Change and Political Resistance, Medium, February 2025

• ​Humor as Resistance: A Case Study (East Germany), Making the History of 1989, The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, at George Mason University

• Three Well-Tested Ways to Undermine an Autocrat, (gift link) The New York Times, May, 2025

• 25 Years Ago Jon Stewart Took Over the Daily Show and Redfined Political Comedy, NPR, January 2025

• ​How ‘Saturday Night Live’ Went from Mocking Politics to Shaping It in the Span of 50 Years​, IndieWire February 2025​

• 'SNL' has always taken on politics. Here's what works - and why. NPR, September 2024​​

• The Feylin Phenonmenon, The Guardian, October 2008​

• Was Sarah Palin's Image Hurt by Tina Fey? You Betcha!, Pacific Standard, March 2012​

• Parodying Palin: How Tina Fey's Visual and Verbal Impersonations Revived a Comedy Show and Impacted the 2008 Election, Journal of Visual Literacy, January 2010​​

• "Funny, but not Vulgar",George Orwell Leader July 1945​

• ​Unsettling Laughter: Humor and Resistance in Nineteenth-Century Native Literature (Doctoral Dissertation), University of Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange, August 2024​​​​​

 

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