In order to understand the power of political cartoons and their influence, it may be wise to look back in time when the first political cartoons were made .
It is believed that the first appearance of political cartoons was around the 16th century . The political cartoon's target has always been the population, the masses. The population has been always very easy to handle, and politics use the media to do so . In the other hand, these charicatures were also produced in newspaper and also found in pamphlets, prints,etc. This was the only way for the people to make the audience concern about what it was really happening in the country. The politics started to seeing this as an inconvenient and poison for their personal purpose of manipulating the masses.
The development of technological advances was the key and propulsory element to provide the strength that political cartoons needed. The discovery of the print helped to spread copies from the same drawing, reaching to a incredible amount of people in comparison to the past. The use of images instead of heavy texts was very effective and caught a whole new level of audience, whereas at that time no every peeseant couldn't read or write, so the message could reach to an-alphabets and the working class, not just middle-high class regardless of background.
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