Thomas Nast’s Harper’s Weekly cartoons helped land Tweed in jail. (Tweed once tried to pay Nast off.) When Tweed fled to Spain in 1875, he was caught—by officials who recognized him from a ...

The fury cartoonists inspire is as old as the form. In 1871, William “Boss” Tweed, the political master of New York’s Tammany Hall, is said to have groused about caricatures of him drawn by Thomas ...

The German-American cartoonist Thomas Nast (1840-1902) referred to Tweed and Sweeny as Tweedledee and Sweedledum, as he waged a campaign to remove the corrupt officials from power through his ...

Thursday Drawing attention The phrase “The pen is mightier than the sword” may have found its truest embodiment in cartoonist Thomas Nast, who was born today in 1840. Without ever leaving his desk at ...

Thomas Nast may be known as “The Father of Modern Political Cartoons,” but history teacher Halloran’s thorough biography of the 19th-century journalist is much more than mere caricature.

Abolitionist cartoonist Thomas Nast had a big role in manufacturing the US version of the Christmas patriarch. by Jasmine Liu December 23, 2021 December 24, 2021 Subscribe to our newsletter ...

Fiona Deans Halloran, author of [Thomas Nast: The Father of Modern Political Cartoons], talked about the cartoonist best known for his illustrations of the Republican elephant and the Democratic ...