The title of this cartoon is, “Student Loans” and was created by Kirk Walters. In the cartoon, there is a man who is just out of college. He is asking his mother, “Like, could I live in the basement until I pay off my college loans?” and his mother tells him, “Your grandfather beat you to it” while pointing at his grandfather. The grandfather is sticking his tongue out at his grandson and is holding a paper that says, “Seniors carry $36 billion in student loans.” The grandfather is also wearing a cardigan with the letter “S” on it. The young man symbolizes the stress and sadness of the generation of young adults who are having trouble paying off their school loans. The old man symbolizes the elderly and their money troubles, even though it is not the same as the money troubles of the young adults. The artist is trying to portray the problems with our economy because young adults are faced with money issues and the stress of being in debt. The artist is using a word play when he created the grandfather and the situation where he already lives in the basement by calling him “senior” because typically, college seniors are worried about the debt they are in more than other college students. It also shows that college students are having a lot of trouble trying to figure out ways they can live normally while paying off their loans. Since the young adult’s grandfather is living in the basement, the young adult probably has no where else to go which causes him more stress in figuring out how he can pay off his debt. I cannot really tell what ideological perspective is represented by the cartoonist because I feel all college students who are having trouble paying off their school loans feel the same way. It does not matter whether they are Republican or Democrat or some other affiliation because a majority of students are worried about how they will pay for school and how they will pay off their school loans. This cartoon relates to current political event because the troubles with the economy are always spoken about whether in the news or with friends. Since America is still dealing with the aspects of the recession, people are still worried about money. This also relates to current political event because the Republican candidates who are running to become the nominee to run against Obama this November are always talking about ways they can fix the economy and they are always talking about ways to get the younger voters involved which would be the get them interested in something they feel will benefit themselves. This relates to class because we have been discussing ways to get the young adults to become more involved in the voting process and by creating a way to somehow get college students more money for school will definitely get more of these new voters to actually get out and vote. Irony can sort of be seen in the grandfather because the cartoonist is focusing on the fact that the word play with “seniors” relates to college loans. The irony is that the elderly actually have worries themselves with the economy, but not the same way college students have such as social security. Overall, the artist was able to portray his message about the worries of college students while doing it in a funny way.
Ewwwwww
The title of this cartoon is “Ewwwwww” and was created by Cardow. In the right hand corner of this cartoon are the words, “How Mitt Romney Copes…” and the cartoon is of Mitt Romney taking a shower saying, “Ewwww…I just spent another day touching ordinary Americans and POOR people!” while holding a bottle of “Anti-Bacterial body wash.” The man in the picture obviously symbolizes Mitt Romney, one of the Republican candidates because it tells the viewer that this is how Mitt Romney copes. The whole purpose of this cartoon seems to be bashing Mitt Romney because although he says he will help the poor and other similar things, the cartoonist believes that he is full of lies and is just saying that to please the people. The cartoonist seems to strongly dislike Romney because the cartoonist sort of made the figure of his body that of a person who does not exercise which is something men usually try to focus on. It seems that the ideological perspective represented by the cartoonist seems to be a liberal one because the cartoonist is obviously bashing Romney which is essentially bashing the Republican candidates. Republicans tend to be more on the conservative side so it seems that Cardow is more of a liberal. This cartoon relates to current political event because on every news website, there is something that deals with the GOP primaries and the candidates. This cartoon relates to class because throughout the year, we have been discussing the chances of the candidates as well as the pros and cons of each candidate. The satire in this cartoon is that Romney is cleaning himself as much as he possibly can because ordinary Americans and poor people are “dirty” to him because they are not as rich as he is. The cartoonist is trying to make fun of Romney and is using the shower to do so. Overall, the cartoonist portrayed the view of possibly many other people through the cartoon successfully.
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