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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

When and why did the elephant become the symbol of the Republican Party and the donkey the symbol of the Democratic Party? Harper's Weekly cartoonist Thomas Nast is credited with inventing 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 ...

Nast’s anti-Irish cartoons were a fraction of his work and stemmed from his dislike of Tammany Hall, according to Smith – who pointed out that this year marks the third year that Nast has been a ...