Research question week2:We got great information on Thomas Nast. I am thinking we need to find some informationon the history of the profession in Europe. Where there political cartoonist working in Eu-rope? When did they begin. We could focus on France. I know they have a long history. Ihave seen cartoons created in the era leading up to the French Revolution.Political Cartoons shed light upon ambiguous causes in historic event and characterizethe direction of a civilization through time towards obtaining classicistic ideals. It is crucial tothe caricature that there is an overemphasis of the condition of a historical event that the artistwants to feature. Since the 17th century, political cartoons were regarded and has become a ex-clusive visual communication mechanism. The focus point of these is to construct public beliefsby using artistic, cultural, and psychological methods, include addressing to nationalism, sym-
