WittyWorld Lectures, Speaking Engagements

THE IMAGE OF AMERICA • COMPARING CULTURES • FITTING IN: AMERICA'S 60 MILLION IMMIGRANTS • UNDERSTANDING COMMUNISM • THE HISTORY OF CARTOON ART • SYMBOLISM • CARTOON GENRES • PLAGIARISM • EDITORIAL-POLITICAL CARTOONING • CARICATURES • THE ROLE OF A CARTOONIST • THE POWER OF IMAGES • CENSORSHIP • CARTOON MARKETS • SYNDICATION • GENERATING IDEAS • HUMOROUS PHOTOGRAPHY • CARTOONOMETER: TAKING THE PULSE OF THE WORLD'S CARTOONISTS • THE EDITOR

THE POWER OF IMAGES

As Art Buchwald said: "Dictators of the right and the left fear the political cartoonist more than they do the atomic bomb." The presentation starts with Thomas Nast and continues through the story of assasinated cartoonist Naji Salim al-Ali to the modern day effects of editorial images — some of which are shockingly harsh. [PowerPoint presentation]

Embarrassed Japanese Party Leader Shusuke Nomura killed himself because a cartoonist purposefully left a stroke off (on the left hand side) of the character in red thus changing the name of his party from "Wind" to "Lice."