Political Cartoons

A political cartoon is a humorous single-panel drawing or gag cartoon. They are often used to make laugh by representing current public political figures or issues symbollically or satirically.

But, do you think that political cartoons are the best way to make laugh and satirize politics? Do you think what political cartoons express is true? Would you be able to make a political cartoon?

In my opinion, political cartoons do express what the citizens see and what the politics itself represent. Even though they have the purpose of encouraging a change in politics, they are not the best way to implore for a change.

Nowadays, political cartoons are even showed daily in newspapers, magazines, and sometimes even in television.

This is a common political cartoon that expresses some of the thoughts of citizens about government. They are used to see and accept that prices rise a lot and they are not able to do anything; apart from not being able to act, government also does not act. Government do nothing agaist the rise of prices because it is something that would better them.

This political cartoon is trying to explain the tired situation that the "venezolanos" have been experiencing a total dictatorship since 1999. Most of the citizens ruled by Chávez have the strong desire of being able to vote. They wish for the day in which they can live in a democratic society. These is what is expressed in this political cartoon. The people are quite tired of the incoherences that Hugo Chávez invent daily that they even think they can finish crazy.

I think political cartoons is a good way in which the citizens can express themselves because in most of the countries the voice of people has no value.