US Cartooning Tradition in Peril in Trump’s First Year — FAIR

This Herblock cartoon (Washington Post, 3/29/50) is the first recorded use of the word “McCarthyism.”

The political cartoon is of vast importance to the history of the United States. Benjamin Franklin’s “Join or Die” made the case for unity to colonists wanting independence from Great Britain. Thomas Nast exposed the corruption of Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall; when Tweed attempted to…