Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Propaganda Cartoons

By Josh Albarran - May 26, 2016

The famous "Uncle Sam" poster, created by J.M. Flag in 1917 was used for the first two World Wars by the United States army and became an landmark for patriotic emotion.  
When you read an local newspaper that you brought from an newsstand during your morning commute to work and to check in on the day's top stories, you're see an comic strip based on current events such as this year's presidential election, the war on terror among others. It's like an perspective commentary that we called as propaganda.

In 1721, London-born William Hogarth and the now-defunct South Sea Company produced an editorial cartoon on the disaster stock market crash of 1720 which was published in 1724.
Cartoons in politics represents an series of historic events that would changed the landscape of the United States of America and the entire world. Propaganda drawings in newspapers goes all the way back when the first propaganda cartoon was released in the United Kingdom back in 1724. Since then, every editorial cartoon has been printed worldwide.

An poster for Women's Army Corps during the years of World War II where women had to work while their love-ones were on the battlefield in the defense of freedom.
Let's put it for example. What if you can imagine if you can make your own propaganda cartoon (depends if you're working at an media company that owns newspapers and comic books). First watch the new to see what's happening in the world, then think about that relates to an current topic and finally use an material (such as an pen or a pencil) to produced an editorial cartoon with an little background as a detail.

In the late 1990s, newspapers across America cities saw editorial cartoons of President Bill Clinton in a awake of his impeachment scandal.
Editorial cartoons had been expanding to not just only newspapers or magazines, but also on short or long-form films, television, the internet, mobile apps and many more. Whatever an politician, world leaders or critics liked it or not, an propaganda cartoon comes with an story never has an end.