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Archival image from Punch magazine 1918 by photos.com ©Getty Images. H. G. Wells said the Great War was the war that would end all wars. That was a fatalistic point of view in Wells’s day, but humankind’s propensity for warmongering...

This is the cartoon: “The Bosses of the Senate,” by J. Ottmann Lith. Co. after Joseph Keppler Puck Lithograph, colored, 1889-01-23 From the collection of the U.S. Senate One of my old high school classmates, Shaun McCausland, ran for the...

In C.S. Lewis’s classic novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Edmund Pevensie enters a wardrobe and finds himself magically transported to a snowy kingdom. An unknown queen, who turns out to be a witch, asks him what he would most like to eat...

Photo by Doug in the Londonist Flickr pool. Gawp at cartoons William Hogarth was more than a mere cartoonist, yet his greatest achievement was bringing the medium to the London masses via his engravings. You can dip into Hogarth’s seedy, sozzled, satirical...

Jennifer Thorp Gustave Doré (1832-1882): Master Of Imagination Musée D’Orsay, Paris 18 February—11 May 2014 … … … … … … … Satire in the 21st century is by and large...