Cartoons

For the two cartoons write a brief response that answers the following questions as part of an analysis.

The questions for Analyzing Images

1. What is your first response?
2. What is the subject or content?
3. What is the primary purpose? Are there additional purposes?
4. How are things arranged in the visual space? Can you diagram its overall composition? What effect does the arrangement have on the way you ‘read’ the image?
5. What strikes you as important, interesting, or emotionally moving in the image? Can you identify elements of the image that could be symbolic, ironic, or figurative?
6. How do you think others ‘read’ this image?
7. What are the larger historical, political, social, cultural, and economic contexts of this image?
8. How do we know this is a comic image?
9. Are you reminded of another image by this image? If so, how do they differ?
10. How is the caption used? What rhetoric is in those words?

*Adapted from Picturing Texts by Faigley, George, et al.