An editorial cartoon, also known as a non cartoon, is an illustration containing a commentary that usually relates to current events or personalities.
They typically combine artistic skill, hyperbole and biting humour in order to question authority and draw attention to corruption and other social ills.
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“I have been in the editorial business going on fourteen years, and it is the first time I ever heard of a man’s having to know anything in order to edit a newspaper.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)
“this cartoon by Raphael for a tapestry for a Pope:”
—Elizabeth Bishop (1911–1979)