Cartoon Analysis:

When analyzing a cartoon, it is important to look at the following aspects:

Genre

 What type of cartoon is it? A single panel, a cartoon strip, an editorial cartoon, a graphic novel?
Where might you find it? Who drew it?

Setting:

• Where and when is the cartoon set?

• What is the particular social context?
• What objects can you see in the setting? Why are they there? Are they symbolic in some
way? Do they represent something else? Are they helping to build up a particular theme
or mood?

Characters:

• Are the characters realistic? Caricatures? Stereotypes?

• What actions and emotions are communicated through body language? 
• What emotions are communicated through facial expressions? 
• What does the body language suggest about the relationships between characters?

Action:

• What is happening in the cartoon?

• How is the action portrayed?

Language:

• What words have been used?

• How has punctuation been used to suggest emotion?

Humour:

 What humour technique is being used? Irony, parody, satire, understatement, pun, black
humor, juxtaposition, analogy, allusion?

Message:

 What is the artist’s biased perspective on the issue? What is his/her call to action?
Try to analyse the following cartoons: