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Alfred McCoy
Background of Author

Birth: 1945, Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Citizenship: United States of America

Dr. Alfred W. McCoy is a professor of Southeast Asian history and head of the
Center for Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. He's
written about the politics and history of the opium trade over the past quarter-
century.
 Background of Author

30 years of writing about Southeast Asian Politics/History

Philippine Cartoons (1985),
Anarchy of Families (1994),
Closer Than Brothers: Manhood at the Philippine Military Academy (2000)
Lives at the Margin (2001).
• Political drawing or caricature is a drawing, description, or impersonation of

a person in which some distinguishing features are exaggerated to

generate a funny or grotesque effect.

• Such art genre became part of the print media. (Form of social and political

commentary)

• Caricature uses heavy use of SYMBOLISM

• Unique way to represent opinion and capture audience’s imagination.

During the American administration, political cartoons in the
Philippines reached their full potential. Artists in the Philippines
captured national views on the arrival of the Americans, as well
as changing customs and times.

This book is a compilation of 377 editorials cartoons and caricature

made by Filipino artist.

• A secondary source
PHILIPPINE CARTOONS (1985)
Philippine Catholic Mass Media Award
Best Book of the Year for 1985
Philippine National Book Award for History,1986
Gintong Aklat Award (Manila)
Special Citation for History, 1987.
• The transition from Spanish colonial period to the American occupation
period demonstrated different strands of changes and shifts in culture,
society, and politics.

• The selected cartoons illustrate not only the opinion of certain media
outfits about the Philippine society during the American period but also
paint a broad image of society and politics under United States.

• Lastly, the cartoons also illustrated the conditions of poor Filipinos in the
Philippines now governed by the United States. From the looks of it,
nothing much has changed.
• Each individual caricature recorded national attitudes
towards the coming of the Americans as well as the
changing times.
• It clarifies Historical information and served as an eye
opener.
• The book reflected anti-American sentiments in addition
to condemnation of the ruling class.
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