Editorial+Cartoons


 * 1. Check out the following editorial cartoon sites:**
 * ** [|Cincinnati Enquirer cartoon archive] **
 * [|Jim Borgman - Cincinnati Enquirer]
 * Slate Magazine
 * Steve Kelley - New Orleans
 * [|Daryl Cagle - MSNBC]


 * 2. After browsing these sites, select at least ONE editorial cartoon to post to this page. Save the picture on the Desktop, and then click the picture icon on the editor toolbar to upload your file. Once you've selected the cartoon, double-click it to insert it onto the page. BE SURE YOU PUT YOUR NAME BY YOUR CARTOON.**


 * 3. Underneath the cartoon, answer the following questions:**

(a) To what event, person, or situation is this cartoon responding? (b) What is the message or opinion being communicated by the cartoonist? (c) How does the cartoonist communicate this message? Think text, caricature, metaphor, symbolism, color, etc.

(a) Enter the New Yorker Caption Contest. In order to do, you will need to create an account. (b) Use the New Yorker Cartoon Kit to create your own cartoon and caption using a gallery of backdrops, characters, and props.
 * 4. Explore the //New Yorker's// cartoon features**.

=EDITORIAL CARTOON GALLERY - JOURNALISM I= //Post your cartoons and analysis questions below. Please include your name.//


 * EXAMPLE **

//Name: Ms. Sotelo//

// This cartoon is showing the devastation caused by the earthquake in Haiti, while also commenting on today's insurance companies and their policies towards health care coverage. The cartoonist is expressing the idea that denying individuals of health care insurance on the basis of preexisting conditions is literally risking the lives of those who need immediate medical attention. This message is being emphasized through the use of analogy (between Haiti and insurance companies), as well as imagery of destruction and desperation within the cartoon (i.e. the falling buildings and the pair of eyes peering from the rubble). //


 * POST YOUR CARTOONS HERE (CLICK "EDIT" in the upper-right hand corner):**

Name: Tommy Hannig //This cartoon is responding to the court's ruling that Obama's Health Care Plan, or Obama Care, is unconstitutional. The cartoonist uses an ambulance labeled "ObamaCare" to obviously show Obama's Health Care plan. He draws the ambulance running through, and tearing up, the U.S. Constitution. He communicates the message with steam coming out of the ObamaCare ambulance as it crashes into the document, showing that it goes against the Constitution.//

Hudson's Cartoon. 1.) a. Responds to the taxpayer's continual support of two major companies that supposedly keep other things supported. b. The message being conveyed is that it's the taxpayers, not the gov. that's keeping things afloat. c. the "house of cards" represent the precarious nature of things. The caption, "Now Nobody Move!" shows that we have finally reached a stable support system, but that a single movement could cause everything to fall. The other names and words are representing the two major companies that the taxpayers are supporting, and what they in turn are supporting. The whole system is doomed, as the workers (taxpayers) are getting tired and stressed out over the continual support.  a) This cartoon is responding to the intense winter we had, after global warming has become such an issue. b)They use a cactus that should be in a dry, hot desert to show how big of a winter storm we had, when the world is supposedly getting warmer. c)The text is really what gets the message across, because the opposite of what global warming should be doing is happening. We had record snowfall in many states, even some snow in states down south, where cacti grow (Texas).

Hannah Nicholsona) This is responding to the TSA security searches at airports. b) This is communicating that the searches are too extreme and a invasion of privacy. It is saying that if you are going to be stripped searched at the airport, then why come to the airport in clothes; it would be easier to just get dressed afterwards. c) They communicate this message with the man putting on his socks implying he is getting dressed at the airport. They are showing the strip search with the woman in her underwear and the man waving the scanner thing on her arm. The other inspectors are going through the suitcase and making a mess showing these searches are a hassle and an invasion of privacy.