A little history with your cartooning?

So far I have been working on creating political cartoons in flash and the history of political cartoons. I enjoyed creating the flash pieces. As primitive as they may look with the stick figures and all, I learned a few new techniques and became much more comfortable with what I already new. As usual, Jeremy helped me put sound on certain parts of the movie so it was a little more engaging. I also enlisted Bailey’s help. She noted some points in the movie where I assumed viewers would understand what was happening. From her suggestions, I added matching bandannas to the two robbers to make it more obvious that they were a team of robbers. Before that, the viewer wasn’t sure what these characters were doing until the end.  I also moved the first robber off of the cactus because, apparently, people don’t lean on cacti. Who knew?

 The history of political cartooning was interesting. My goal, with the video at least, was to show how intertwined U.S. history is with the history of political cartoons but I was surprised at the extent to which that was the case.  Many of the advances or changes in the cartooning culture came as a result of changes in the country.

 I would have liked to add more current cartoons to the video but with copyright and timing issues it became a little bit of a problem. I like how the video shows different events and the political cartoons comment on it but it would’ve been nice to be able to show some of the more negative commentary, specifically the recent cartoon from the New York Post but by the time, I heard about it, it was a little too late to get it and put it in the video.