...This introductory chapter discusses the definitions, functions, and significance of political cartoons. Besides its function as a watchdog of government and the political system, the chapter also shows that the political cartoon is also a social consciousness-raising instrument that can bring...

...This chapter studies political cartoons in South Korea. It starts with a historical overview tracing the origins of South Korea's political cartoons to illustrations in the country's earliest newspapers. It shows the adaptability of Korean political cartoons throughout history, which helped them...

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...This chapter examines political cartoons in Thailand. It begins with an overview of pioneering Thai cartoonists, starting from King Rama VI, who drew satirical caricatures to embarrass corrupt officials that were published in royal newspapers. However, as the chapter shows, Rama VI is hardly...

... with accounts of the popular strip “Tokai,” the country’s first comics shop, new publishers, educational comics, and professional efforts. Bangladesh colonialism comic strips Daily Azad Food Conference India Kasem Kazi Abul Language Movement Pleng Tri Pin political cartoons Samran Witthaya Shabash...

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...This chapter turns to Japanese political cartooning. It begins with a historical overview, illustrating Japan's especially rich tradition of caricature, satire, and narrative. Indeed, Japanese culture has long brimmed with caricature, satire/parody, humor/playfulness, and narrative/sequence, though...

...This chapter considers the history of Taiwanese political cartoons. It shows how Taiwanese political cartooning for much of its early period was a contented lapdog of the Guomindang government. Cartoonists labored under many Guomindang government restraints: working under martial law restrictions...

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...This chapter examines Bangladeshi political cartooning. It explores the nation's history of cartooning from even prior to the country's official founding as “Bangladesh” after the 1971 War of Liberation. The chapter also remarks on a thriving community of contemporary Bangladeshi political...

...This chapter focuses on political cartooning in India. It starts by exploring the history of caricature in India up to the latter part of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The chapter then embarks on a series of interviews to capture the essence of Indian political cartooning...

...This chapter follows the rich history of political cartooning in Nepal. It begins by tracing the country's rich heritage of challenging and mocking tradition and authority, which has survived political dictatorships, repressive monarchial rule, and natural disasters. It thrives through humor clubs...

...This chapter examines neoliberalism and irony in the leftist political cartoons of Jeff Danziger, who often questioned dominant discourses by both inhabiting and operating outside them. More specifically, it looks at Danziger’s use of irony as a discursive strategy to explicitly critique...

...This book examines the various forms of comedic popular artifacts produced in America from 1861 to 1865, and looks at how wartime humor was created, disseminated, and received by both sides of the conflict. Song lyrics, newspaper columns, sheet music covers, illustrations, political cartoons...

...The nationally syndicated comic strip Kudzu, a creation of editorial cartoonist Doug Nigel Marlette, celebrated “the values, humor, and original characters still to be found in rural America.” In addition to Kudzu, Marlette produced thousands of political cartoons...

...This chapter is an exploration of Chinese political cartoons. Visual humor through caricature, satire and parody, and wit and playfulness has a long, rich history in dynastic China. Modern cartooning—usually meaning coming from the West—entered China at the juncture of the nineteenth and twentieth...

...This chapter examines the dismal state of political cartooning in Cambodia. To say that Cambodian politics has been tumultuous for at least the past half century is a fair assessment. The country has faced war on its own soil, struggled through a genocidal regime, and drastically changed forms...

...This chapter focuses on Indonesian political cartoons, the earliest of which pay homage to centuries-old wayang shadow-puppet performances. As the chapter shows, Indonesian political cartoonists have given a nod to wayang kulit as a source of inspiration. From there, the chapter...

...This chapter assesses the difficulties faced by political cartoonists in Myanmar. It first provides a historical overview of political cartooning in the country, before profiling two individual cartoonists interviewed for this work. These are Aw Pi Kyeh (APK) and Win Aung, who were among the most...