Political Science: Political Cartoons

The Association of Editorial Cartoonists maintains this site which contains political cartoons - both national and international, for the past 7 days. The site also has a searchable archive for political cartoons back to 1996 (prior to this, coverage is more spotty).

A collection of favourite sites.

Nicely split into categories

Use the advanced search options in our historical newspaper databases to limit searches to cartoons (papers provided by ProQuest all offer this option). When doing this use as few search terms as possible or browse papers by date rather than searching. Note that not all editorial cartoons published will be in the online version due to copyright.

"This assemblage of more than 500 prints made in America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries encompasses several forms of political art. Most of the prints are from the division's PC/US series, which consists of individually catalogued political cartoons and caricatures."

J.N. "Ding" Darling was an American editorial cartoonist active in the first half the 20th century. His cartoons were published in the New York Globe and New York Herald Tribune, among others. This online collection is provided by Drake University.

This collection from the National Archives, provides access to thousands of political cartoons that were originally published in the Washington Post and the Evening Star between 1890 and 1949.