Creating cartoons

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Cartoons combine powerful images and text to inform, persuade, entertain and amuse us. They are part of our everyday lives: we find them in newspapers and magazines, on television and online.

Image of a wolf in a flock of sheep

No matter how much grass he ate, Gerald never felt like one of the mob!

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The CLI resource Cartoons and comics1 (NSW DET only) and the Read Write Think resource It’s No Laughing Matter2 look at techniques that cartoonists use to get their message across.

Your tasks

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Analyse the features of cartoons, including the use of caricatures, symbols, colours and stereotypes.

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Create your own cartoon.

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Share your cartoon with your teacher and classmates.

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Links

  1. http://lrr.cli.det.nsw.edu.au/Lrr2Tale/Tale/Download.aspx?resID=4652&v=1&preview=true&target=LMS
  2. http://lcweb2.loc.gov:8081/learn/features/political_cartoon/index.html