In Brooke Borgeois’ cartoon, a Godzilla-like monster has interrupted a wedding ceremony by tearing off the roof of the church. He’s glaring down at the bride and groom and minister. The bride, who looks more disappointed or apologetic than shocked, is speaking. In Othello, jealousy is personified as “the green-eyed monster,” so I thought this monster…
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“Wedding Crasher” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
Courting Laughter
We are a nation of laws… Which would be fine except for the lawyers, judges, and juries who screw it up. Anyway, that’s the view of cartoonists who are not in the business of praising institutions but are in the business of showing how the humans who comprise them are all too human, all too…
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Climate Centre Case Study: Using cartoons to communicate serious issues
On September 25th, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a massive 1170 page report delving into the alarming severity of global warming. More than 104 scientists from 36 countries worked together over the past 3 years looking at the disastrous impact of climate change on the Earth’s oceans and the ice formations. Sound amusing?…
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“Fired Wizard” Caption Contest Commentary with Lawrence Wood
In Lars Kenseth’s cartoon, an office worker and a wizard are either in an elevator or waiting for an elevator. The wizard is carrying a cardboard box filled with files and a tape dispenser, suggesting that he was just fired and told to clear out his desk. The wizard is speaking. I first thought of…
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Cartoonathon Case Study: Atlantic Council Heatwave Coalition
Heatwaves are an increasingly common and deadly climate event. According to the WHO, from 1998-2017, over 166,000 people died due to heatwaves, 70,000 of those lost their lives due to a single heatwave in Europe in 2003.1 As the number of heatwaves and the related death toll continue to rise, it begs the question: why…
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Anatomy of a Cartoon: Pandemic Remodeling
Cartoon critics Phil Witte and Rex Hesner look behind the gags to debate what makes a cartoon tick. This week our intrepid critics take a look at pandemic remodeling. Signs of normal life are slowing returning: customers in partially-open restaurants, more cars on the road, more flights in the sky. One commercial segment, in particular,…
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