I’ll bet most fans of editorial cartoons don’t even know who Thomas Nast was. As a young cartoonist in 1990s Iran, I discovered this German-born American genius and found myself captivated. If the ...

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Re “Lalo Alcaraz’s La Cucaracha comic strip must go. It is blatantly political.” (May 9): Chicano artist Lalo Alcaraz is the parallel to U.S. political cartoonist Thomas Nast from the 1800s. Readers ...

I’ll bet most fans of editorial cartoons don’t even know who Thomas Nast was. As a young cartoonist in 1990s Iran, I discovered this German-born American genius and found myself captivated. If the ...

With Christmas just a little over two weeks away, images of a chubby-cheeked, red-hatted, white-bearded Santa Claus are everywhere. The roots of that image can be traced largely to 19th-century ...