POLITICAL

CARICATURE
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 What is Caricature?
A picture, description, or imitation of a person in which certain striking
characteristic are exaggerated in order to create a comic or ridiculous
effect.

Can be insulting or complementary and can be serve a political purpose

to be drawn solely for entertainment.

Caricature of politician- editorial cartoons

Caricature of Movie star- magazines,
 What is Caricature?
 Political caricature of the American era (1900-1941)

Philippine political cartoons gain full expression during the American era
Filipino Artist recorded national attitudes toward the coming of the Americans
as well as the changing mores and times.

While the 377 cartoons compiled in this books speak for themselves,
Historian Alfred Mccoy provides a comprehensive background not only to the
cartoons but to the turbulent period as well.

Artist-writer Alfredo Roces, who designed the book, contributes an essay on

Philippine graphic satire of the period.
Philippine cartoon achievements:
PHILIPPINE CARTOONS (1985)
Philippine Catholic Mass Media Award
Best Books of the Year for 2985
Philippine National Books Award for History 1986
Gintong Aklat award (Manila)
Special Citation For History 1987
When Filipinos began winning civil
service appointments after 1913,
they found themselves facing
serious discrimination in both wags
and positions.
Francis B. Harrison, the liberal
Governor General reed the pro;
American hiring policies of the Taft
Era (1900 – 1912) and began the
“’FIlipinization” of the civil service.
American Worker- Filipino
Worker
- refers not to a ten-fold
difference in Filipino and
American manual wages
within the colony, but to a
more fundamental inequality -
the difference in wages and
working conditions between
the two countries.
Here are some
Examples of
caricature
during
American Era: