Thomas Nast’s cartoon shows a donkey in a lion’s skin scaring an elephant and other animals. (Library of Congress) Why is the elephant the symbol of the Republican Party and a donkey the ...

Typical contemporary illustrations of the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant In a few days, America will elect our next president. It’s been a particularly contentious and divisive ...

Popularization: The symbol of the donkey was further popularized by the famous political cartoonist Thomas Nast in the 1870s. Nast used the donkey in a series of cartoons to represent the ...

Have you ever wondered where America’s political ... 1870 cartoon, shown above — “A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion” — that popularized the symbol. The cartoon depicts Democratic ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam. Publishing regularly in Harper's Weekly ...

The Association of American Editorial Cartoonists ... the most influential cartoonist in American history. He popularized the shorthand of the profession — the symbols of the Republican elephant ...

Ann Telnaes, editorial cartoonist at The Washington Post, is the 2023 recipient of the Herblock Prize, the Herb Block Foundation announced. The award honors Telnaes’s “distinguished examples ...

Ohman won the Pulitzer for editorial cartooning ... running opinion cartoons in McClatchy newspapers.” According to the Daily Cartoonist, an industry newsletter, the chain said in a letter ...

The firings of the cartoonists employed by the McClatchy newspaper chain last week were a stark ... said it would no longer publish editorial cartoons. “We made this decision based on changing ...