Political cartoons aren't there to make you laugh ... Or this one from the early 1800s that gave us the word "gerrymandering". Both cartoons make a statement of what society was going through ...

The donkey came first as a political symbol ... By the 1880s, Nast's cartoons had caught the public eye and established the donkey as the symbol of the Democratic Party. The elephant first ...

It’s an anniversary we ought to celebrate. In a career that spanned 30 years, from the 1780s to the early 1800s, Gillray produced political cartoons of unprecedented draughtsmanship and ...

“It was a time when political cartoons weren’t just relegated to a sidebar in the editorial page, but really had the power to change minds and sway undecided voters by distilling complex ideas ...