Political Cartoons By Dave Granlund - 1064 Words

Nidhi Chavan Ms. Daniels English, Period 3 11 March 2016 Political Cartoon Essay A political cartoon explains an event or the effects of an event either in an humorous way or an serious but exaggerated way. The cartoonist can exaggerate a specific feature of an person or an event like the artist may make the ears of Obama’s extremely large because of how they feel about him listening to the issues but never doing anything about it. Or they make the statue of a famous civil movements leaders’ unfinished because they feel that their job is unfinished. The political cartoons are here to catch the attention of the public in a humorous way other than a serious way. Dave Granlund mostly draws cartoons based on the current event and past major current events. His drawings have been published in the daily newspaper since 1977 and in the weeklies sinces the sixties. He has been aired on national tv news broadcasters like Fox News.com, MSNBC.com, HBO, PBS, NPR, ABC News, CNN and NBC’s Today Show. Dave started drawing cartoons since he was sixteen for his school’s newspaper. The cartoon that I chose demonstrates how Martin’s work was left unfinished and it is still unfinished to this day. The reasoning behind that in particular is because Dr. King had a dream that every person in the US would be treated equally and not cast out from society because of their skin color or race. But instead, in today s world,everything happening is the complete opposite from what he dreamt of. People