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REHUGO #1 CITATION: Ramirez, Michael. “ The Great Job Massacre”. Cartoon. //Ramirez Editorial Cartoons//. 28 Nov. 2011. //Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post.//Investors.com. 29 Nov. 2011. .

CATEGORY: Economics/ Political

PRECIS: Michael Ramirez, an accomplished editor, in his “The Great Job Massacre”, illustrates many people representing jobs shot with Obama holding a gun to show that Obama has made poor decisions and policies for the economy and has actually caused more problems financially. Ramirez does this by showing many people shot symbolizing the lost job opportunities and with Obama holding the gun illustrating the source of these transactions. His purpose was to easily point out with clear imagery the irony of America’s desire of jobs being shot down or decreased primarily by the President. The audience of this cartoon was widely intended for the politicians, middle class, and government officials to inspire people with clarity the source or another addition of America’s economic crisis.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: Honestly, it was really refreshing looking at this cartoon. I believe part of this cartoon is true in depicting Obama’s lack of leadership of this economic crisis and silliness, but I don’t totally believe that Obama is to be the prime blame although everyone in America is hungrily trying to find someone to blame and luckily Obama was in front of the line. Also, while looking at this picture I noticed that the shirts specified companies for drilling, pipeline, and Boeing jobs, which I looked up and found it was a huge company for space and security systems/weapons. I wasn’t sure how they all could have connected. I hope I understood the author’s purpose clearly if not fine.

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CITATION: Benson, Steve. “Tear Down Wall Street”. Cartoon. //Benson Cartoons.// //Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post.//18 Nov. 2011. The Arizona Republic. 29 Nov. 2011. < http://www.cagle.com/author/steve-benson/>.

CATEGORY: Economic

PRECIS: Steve Benson, a professional editorial cartoonist, in his “Tear Down Wall Street”, argues about the subject of Occupy Wall Street that it is inferior to the government especially with its high demands and chaotic problems within itself. Benson does this by drawing a man with similar attributes of a homeless person representing Occupy Wall Street and with skyscrapers in the back representing Wall Street. His purpose was to show the irony of the impossible request of OWS with overpowering industry of Wall Street and the organization itself being unstable as it is right now. The audience of this work is for everyone familiar with the OWS or even Wall Street people themselves.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: I found this cartoon very interesting as I am also more familiar with this topic. This cartoon clearly illustrates the boundless and unsophisticated organization of OWS. It’s sad to see the honest protestors of OWS accidentally mingling with the annoying homeless, crazy people and therefore, being mistaken as a member. The intentions of OWS are clear and good, but its approach was unreasonable resulting in absolute ignorance.

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CITATION: Ramsey, Marshall. “Santa Congress”. Cartoon. //Marshall Ramsey.// 24 Nov. 2011. //Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post.// 29 Nov. 2011. < [] >.

CATEGORY: Political

PRECIS: Marshall Ramsey, a well-known cartoonist, in his “Santa Congress”, claims that Congress does not operate with the same purpose as before and does not live up to the hopes of America. He shows this by illustrating inversely of Santa sitting on the big man’s lap representing the Congress as opposed to Santa sitting on the chair and kids confessing their disbelief of Santa himself and says how he doesn’t believe in Congress anymore. The purpose of this picture was to show the incongruity of Congress’ actions in the recent years resulting in disappointment and disbelief. The main audience of the cartoon was the many people who had their hopes on Congress when through the years only find instability.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: I also really enjoyed the way this cartoonist perceived the Congress in the government. In a way, this clearly shows the back and forth discussions and circles of conclusions in the government most of the time.

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CITATION: Ramsey, Marshall. “ A Congressional Thanksgiving”. Cartoon. //Marshall Ramsey.// 21 Nov. 2011. //Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post.//29. Nov. 2011. .

CATEGORY: Political/ Economic

PRECIS: Marshall Ramsey, an experienced cartoonist, in his “A Congressional Thanksgiving”, justifies the problem of the Super-Committee that the Democrats and Republicans in the Super-Committee are delaying the support of the national debt with ignorant and useless arguments. Ramsey expresses this by depicting a giant turkey signifying debt destroying homes and how at the moment Democrats and Republicans holding axes is consistently arguing with a chopped down tree representing the super-committee below them. His purpose of this was to bring awareness of the ridiculousness between the Democrats and Republicans while the debt problem is increasingly engulfing American homes. The audience of this cartoon was obviously to the Super Committee themselves and the Democrats and Republicans in them, but also to regular American citizens sleeping away in the not knowing.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: It’s not surprising to see more Democrats and Republicans fighting with one another only to achieve absolutely nothing once again. The discussions themselves on the issue of the economy are letting the economic crisis engulf more and more families. It seems to me that the politicians and government officials don’t really know the meaning of a depression.

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CITATION: Luckovich, Mike. “U.S. economy”. Cartoon. //Archive for October, 2011.// 23 Oct. 2011. //The Atlantic Journal-Constitution.// 29 Nov. 2011. .

CATEGORY: Economic

PRECIS: Mike Luckovich, a frequent cartoon blogger, in his “U.S. Economy”, argues about the indifference of the Wall Street people towards the U.S. citizens that Wall Street does not care about the rest of America as they are in a safe, rescue boat while most of America are drowning in the financial crisis. He develops this argument by creating a scene of the aftermath of the Titanic symbolizing the U.S. economy while the caption of the ship representing as Wall Street is safe in a boat, while the others are swimming in the water. The purpose of this is to alert society how Wall Street is selfishly floating away through the financial crisis when actually they were part of creating this mess. The audience of this cartoon are the American citizens or the working class and Wall Street themselves.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: I enjoyed this artist’s perspective of political and economic issues especially by how he connected the Wall Street happenings with the sinking of the Titanic to clearly show the economic situation that America is undertaking.

REHUGO #6 CITATION: Englehart, Bob. “Egypt”. Cartoon. //Walk Like An Egyptian.// __Hartford Courant.__ Daryl Cagle. 17 Nov. 2011. __Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post.__ 13 Dec. 2011. .

CATEGORY: Political Unrest

PRECIS: Bob Englehart, a staff cartoonist for the Hartford Courant, in his political cartoon called “Egypt”, argues the controversy between the Muslim Brotherhood and the Egyptian military by claiming that these two significant powers are struggling for power in Egypt. He shows this by illustrating two tanks resembling two prominent powers and the landmark, Egyptian pyramids being levied by these two tanks. His purpose was to not only inform the current case for Egypt but also to effectively depict the deeper battle between powers of the Muslim Brotherhood and the military council. His main intended audience is for adults who are familiar with the revolutionary events in Egypt or to people that have a high ranked position in the government rather in Egypt or America.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: This cartoon was interesting, because once again it is a topic I am a bit familiar with but also because it made me research more into it that I haven’t even thought of.

REHUGO #7 CITATION: Cardow, Cameron. “Korean Trees Color Correction”. __Ottawa Citizen.__ 13 Dec. 2011. //Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post.// 13 Dec. 2011. < http://www.caglecartoons.com/viewimage.asp?ID={D7919A13-2A32-498B-8866-D0DE055E290A} >.

CATEGORY: Asia/ Korea

PRECIS: Cameron Cardow, a notable, Ottawa Citizen cartoonist, in his very recent cartoon called “Korean Trees Color Correction”, asserts the common battle that is persisting even now during the holidays between North and South Korea. Cameron Cardow reveals a defining characteristic of North Korea’s sensitivity against South Korea in a very ironic way by illustrating North Korea as a commander next to a massive missile expressing how even the holidays are potential threats of religion. He drew this in order to express the hilariously exaggerate, yet spot on attribute of North Korea’s irrational actions against the South. The main audience of this cartoon is for the North and South Koreans dealing with these problems.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: I found this cartoon amazingly accurate about the annoying nuclear involvement; North Korea is keeping on coming up with and how for every reason wants to expend their missiles against South Korea.

REHUGO #8 CITATION: Margulies, Jimmy. “10 Years of War In Afghanistan”. Cartoon. //The Record.// 7 Oct. 2011. __Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post.__ 13 Dec. 2011. .

CATEGORY: Afghan War

PRECIS: Jimmy Margulies, an accomplished, The Record cartoonist, in his cartoon named the “10 Years of War in Afghanistan”, expresses the irony of the 10 years Afghanistan War that has cost America billions of dollars in turn for an unchanged, unresolved problem even after 10 years. He does this by depicting this event by illustrating a 10 years Afghan war cake that has cost America 447 billion dollars. His purpose was to juxtapose the aftermath of those 10 years in Afghanistan with a birthday cake to even further show the pointless amounts of input America has done in those 10 years. The main audience of this cartoon is for government officials in the government that has involved America in this pointless war.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: Now, I sometimes get a feeling cartoons can be a little more effective than words.

REHUGO #9 CITATION: Fitzsimmons, David. “Touring Mexico”. Cartoon. //The Arizona Daily Star.// 15 Nov. 2011. __Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post.__ 13 Dec. 2011. .

CATEGORY: Mexico/ Security

PRECIS: David Fitzsimmons, a cartoonist for the Arizona Daily Star, in his cartoon named “Touring Mexico”, argues about the dangers of touring in Mexico and how that is affecting thousands of tourists entering Mexico for a vacation. He supports this by demonstrating a comic-like scene of two women talking about a man getting hurt and how one was confused with the Iraq War because of its intensity regarding with war-like dangers. His purpose was to aware people the true reality of Mexico’s insecurity and dangers especially with how it has affected tourists. Alongside with his purpose, his audience is varies from middle-class adults to Mexican officials in the government.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: I enjoyed reading this comic, not because of its dark humor, but because of its clarity and underlying truth about tourism in Mexico.

REHUGO #10 CITATION: Chappatte, Patrick. “Euro Crisis”. Cartoon. //Italy and the Euro Crisis.// __International Herald Tribune.__ 10 Nov. 2011. //Daryl Cagle’s The Cagle Post.// 13 Dec. 2011. .

CATEGORY: Europe Crisis

PRECIS: Patrick Chappatte, a well-known, International Herald Tribune cartoonist, in his recent cartoon named “Euro Crisis”, justifies the European crisis by claiming that Greece and Italy, having the main roles of the crisis, are also crumbling along with other European countries with them. Chappatte does this by interpreting the crumbling economies of Greece and Italy along with their historic and famous buildings. His purpose was to show how the Greece and Italy are deteriorating, because of the suffering economy. His audience is mainly towards people who live in Greece and its government that are both significantly involved with the crisis.

PERSONAL COMMENTARY: It’s nice to look at cartoons to learn also about what’s going on around the world, rather than reading many columns or listening to biased news.