Cartoon History
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The Global Memory of the Line – 5 | The New Yorker and the Art of the Single-Panel Cartoon
How a Manhattan magazine transformed cartooning from public spectacle into a compact form of social observation, verbal precision and visual…
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The Global Memory of the Line – 4 | Puck and the Colourful Stage of American Political Satire
How Joseph Keppler, chromolithography and large double-page cartoons transformed American politics into a vivid theatre of monopolies, party bosses and…
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The Global Memory of the Line – 3 | Simplicissimus and German Graphic Modernism
How a red bulldog, bold colour and a generation of artists transformed political satire into one of the defining visual…
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The Global Memory of the Line – 2 | Punch and the Institutionalisation of British Humour
How Punch, or the London Charivari transformed cartooning into a lasting British institution—and gave the modern editorial cartoon its name.…
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The Global Memory of the Line – 1 | The Birth of Modern Cartoon Journalism in Paris
The years when La Caricature, Le Charivari, Charles Philipon and Honoré Daumier transformed drawing into a powerful form of political…
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