Mini Comic Art

So I figured that representation would probably be the most difficult part of creating our mini-comic on George Washington saving America. This was due to the fact that we needed to incorporate a lot of characters that are easily recognizable in the media at the present (Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George Bush, and Dick Cheney). I do not consider myself to be an especially talented artist, so I was definitely concerned when I offered to do all the art for the comic. However, I think I came to a decent solution that ending up giving the comic additional visual meaning in a good way.

I looked up a number of random political cartoons on Google images and based my drawings of these characters on those political cartoons. I feel that the fact that the characters are based on their depictions in previous political cartoons really comes across when paying attention to the artwork. Since political cartoons, 90% of the time, critique political figureheads in a major way, the way they are represented in our mini-comic gives the reader an additional sense of critique on these characters. The fact that Gerge Washinton is drawn so simply in comparison helps make this more noticable. And of course I had to make Rupert Murdoch look a bit like Hitler, because he deserves it.