This document provides an outline and overview of editorial cartooning. It discusses how editorial cartoons aim to entertain and exert influence on political and social issues through visual impact. Tips for effective cartooning include limiting words, using symbols selectively, developing your own style, and conveying ideas with sensitivity and ethics. Examples of cartoons on various issues are also included along with a tutorial on using symbols, lines, and shading in cartooning.

2. Topic Outline
Editorial Cartooning
Tips for Editorial
Cartooning
Sample Editorial
Cartoons
0Personalities
0Issues
0Tutorial
0Symbols
0Lines and Shading

3. Editorial Cartooning
0“The cartoon is an important medium
because it gives visual impact to the idea.
Like the editorial, it is an effective social
force.” (Estrada & Singh, 1987)
0It aims to entertain and exert influence
0Effective cartoons deal with just a single
idea

4. Editorial Cartooning
0The typical cartoon is about political and
social conditions and problems
0Some cartoons are good-natured; others
are serious and sophisticated (stylish)

5. Tips for Cartooning:
01. Limit the use of words
02. Consider the use of symbols (Universal)
03. Develop your own style
04. Convey information with finesse
(sensitivity), no malice (cruelty) and within
the boundaries of ethics (moral values)

6. Tips for Cartooning:
05. Add symbols only when needed
06. Confer with other staff on conveying
(taking) an idea
07. Decide whether to emphasize on the
editorial or not

7. Some Examples

19. On Issues:

29. Tutorial
0 Symbols
0 Lines and Shading

30. “A drawing can tell everything.”
– Mrs. May-ridel P. Pasamata