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Herblock’s Political Cartoons
Choose two Herblock cartoons from the site Fire! Herblock’s History: Political Cartoons from the Crash to the
Millennium to include in your U.S. History textbook. Evaluate each cartoon using the questions found on the
Cartoon Analysis Worksheet. Read the online questions and then record your answers on this sheet. Make sure
your answers are written in complete sentences.
Cartoon 1
Level 1 Responses
Visuals
Words (if applicable)
1.
1.
A person crawling from a manhole where there is
a big crowd.
Here he comes now
Storied buildings in the background
The features in the carton depicts people
demonstrating
2.
Welcome
3.
Welcome
Words
‘Here he come now’ are the most significant words in the cartoon. Herblock used the carton to express his opinion about Vice president
Nixon’s campaign communism. In the cartoon, Herblock insinuated that Nixon crisscrossed across the country by sewer and smeared dirt on
his opponents.
There are different adjectives that can be used to express the features in the cartoon. The banners were inscribed ‘welcome’. Therefore
people seemed to welcome someone very joyfully. Other adjectives that can be used to describe the feeling in the cartoon are jovial, jolly,
elated, thrilled etc.
The cartoon was drawn in 1954 by Herbert Lawrence Block commonly known as Herblock. The cartoon was drawn during communism
campaign in the USA. In the 1950’s, there was the wave of communism sweeping across the country. Richard Nixon the then Vice president
opposed communism and insinuated that a number of democrats favored communism.
Herblock used the cartoon to condemn Nixon’s smear tactics in the campaign against communism. The cartoonist showed Nixon emerging
from a sewage manhole. Herblock contemplated that Nixon moved through the country preaching against communism and talking negatively
against those who supported it.
Visuals
The manhole together with the placards displayed are symbolic to the context of the cartoon. The cartoon...