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Tune Down the Rhetoric, Grab a Shovel Cue Bob Lang’s SOFREP cartoon: Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei calmly shoos away a mouth‑foaming mullah chanting “Death to Israel! Death to Ameri…” and barks, ...

Voting should not be mocked. The election may be over but I am appalled by the editorial cartoon, Newark Advocate, Friday, Nov. 9. It illustrates a characterization of Uncle Sam, otherwise ...

Books ‘Uncle Sam’ Was Hailed as a Comics Masterpiece, Then Left to Languish. It’s Been Reissued Just in Time for the Election. The 1997 comic, in which a bedraggled Uncle Sam battles for the ...

Photo: Pool/Getty Images Sometimes the unvarnished truth comes from one’s harshest critics, but a cartoon about the U.S. from the Chinese government has everyone puzzled.

In this 1876 Nast cartoon, the Republican vote, represented by Uncle Sam riding an elephant, tramples a tiger representing the Democrats. Kean Collection/Archive Photos/Getty Images ...

A collection of editorial cartoons for June 19, 2016. A collection of editorial cartoons for June 19, 2016. Skip to Article. ... Ramirez shows Uncle Sam running from Clinton and Trump.

The Cartoon Collector/Print Collector via Getty Images. So where did Uncle Sam’s name come from? According to a resolution Congress approved in 1961, ...

Uncle Sam is one tough old avatar. Cartoonists and designers of all stripes have relied on him as a handy symbol of the U.S. government for ages. He’s evolved in small ways—his costume has ...

German-born political cartoonist Thomas Nast gave America some of its most enduring symbols: the Republican elephant, the Democratic donkey, and Uncle Sam.