This reference traces the historical background of editorial cartooning and presents works that chronicle the history and criticize the aesthetics of the art.
PAUL P. SOMERS, JR. is Professor of American Thought and Language at Michigan State University, East Lansing. He has published articles on American literature and American humor, including editorial cartooning, and a book on Southwestern humorist Johnson J. Hooper (1984). His fiction and satire have appeared in
Harper's and various literary magazines, as well as
National Lampoon, to which he was a contributing editor.