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Downloadable lesson for 07/25/08 
Draw your own conclusions

Download blank cartoon here for students to try writing their own captions.
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Cartoon Evaluation Worksheet
For use with these lessons or with cartoons from your newspaper

Satire or Misfire? The New Yorker Cover

Teachers: Download the lesson and print it out for use in your classroom. (PDF format)

Learning standard: Comprehending and evaluating the content and artistic aspects of oral and visual presentations.
Grade Level: Middle grades and up.

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Tooning into the Economy: Ever heard of 'Stagflation?'

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 State of the Art

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Editorial Cartoons: The Impact and Issues of an Evolving Craft

In their December 2004 issue, the Nieman Foundation for Journalism published a series of articles looking at political cartooning and its position in journalism today. The issue is available for download as a pdf file.

Download the issue here

Toons in books!

New, noteworthy and the editor's suggestions

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Tooning into history

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They were there

Are you studying Reconstruction? The McCarthy era? World War II? View history through the eyes of the political cartoonists.
Check the online resources here.

 Meet YOUR cartoonist

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Etta Hulme

Etta Hulme, one of the few female cartoonists in America, has been the editorial cartoonist for The Fort Worth Star-Telegram since 1972. Her first editorial cartoons appeared in 1954 in the Texas Observer while she was living in Austin.

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More Cartoon Resources

Stop laughing, this is serious*

Association of American Editorial Cartoonists:

What you'll find: Collection of political cartoons, articles dealing with cartooning and cartoonists.

Where you'll find it: Click here


The Opper Project: Teaching history through political cartoons

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Ohio State University has launched a project that uses editorial cartoons to teach history. You'll find lesson plans, downloadable toons and much more.

Click here for the Opper Project


Daryl Cagle's
Cartoon Index:

What you'll find: Huge selection of Political Cartoons updated daily. Collections categorized by topic.

Where you'll find it: Click here


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CartoonArts International:

What you'll find: Major political cartoonists from the world press in over 75 countries.

Where you'll find it: Click here


*How far do Toons reach? The cartoon Australians consider the best and most famous in the world features two workmen hanging in the air from a steel girder, one by the pants of the other, pulling them down. The caption words, "For gorsake, stop laughing, this is serious," have since become a byword in Australian culture. See the cartoon and read more about it at Witty World