2. Cartoon analysis
• Accompany articles
• Drawings used to evoke criticism or comment on
an issue
• Depict a serious issue with humour to expose
human folly
• Identifies ironic or ridiculous aspects of issue
• Demonstrates strong opinion
• Refers to political or public figures and decisions
4. Exaggeration
Who are these figures? Can you
tell despite the exaggerated
features?
What are these features?
5. Exaggeration
• Depiction of physical characteristics
– Specifically facial features
• How does this position the audience?
– Depicts the characters as foolish
– Demeans power and authority
– Take the characters less seriously
– Doubt their power and authority
• Strengthens argument at hand
7. Symbolism
• Takes a simple or a well-known object and creates
them to stand as a larger concept or idea
• Illuminates the foolishness of the ideas surrounding
the issue
• Uncle Sam represents the wider idea of American
freedom and liberation
• Identify these symbols in the Cartoon – very important
9. Labeling
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Often Cartoonists label specific elements
Signifies their importance
Pinpoints an importance aspect of the issue
Identifies what the cartoonist wants the audience
to understand
• Includes names of people, places objects
• Can include speech bubbles and descriptions
• Full message can only be portrayed often with
the use of words included in the Cartoon
11. Analogy
• Comparison between two things that are not
alike
• Complex issue can be related to a more
familiar concept and the ideas that are related
to that concept
• Helps the audience understand what values
the Cartoonist may be trying to depict
13. Irony
• The difference between the way things are
and the way things are supposed to be or are
expected to be
• Depicts contradictions surrounding an issue
• Positions the readers to see the way that
things actually are, despite what they’re
expected to think or how they’re expected to
react
14. Cartoon analysis steps
1. What is the contention of the Cartoonist?
– What is the main point?
2. What issue is being represented?
3. Who is in the Cartoon?
– How are they being represented?
– Negative or positive?
4. What visual strategies are being used to
persuade the audience?
5. Was the Cartoon persuasive?
16. 1. What is the contention of the Cartoonist?
What is the main point?
– Schapelle’s captivity has only changed from one
form to another
2. What issue is being represented?
– Schapelle being released from Bali prison
17. 3. Who is in the Cartoon? How are they being
represented? Negative or positive?
– Schapelle Corby (positive)
– Press (negative)
4. What visual strategies are being used to
persuade the audience?
– Exaggeration
– Labeling
– Irony
18. • Exaggeration
– The press
– Overcrowding, eyes boggled
– Dark colours
• Labeling
– Speech bubble
• Irony
– The use of the word ‘freedom’
– She can’t get out of the door – what makes them
think she is free?
19. Did it persuade you?
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You tell me?
What reaction do you feel?
Do you feel any form of sympathy?
Do you feel scornful towards the press?
Do it change your opinion in any way? In a
negative way or a positive way?
• Do you agree with the contention of the
cartoon?
