Political cartoons offer the opportunity to laugh. To get angry. To see a new point of view.
It’s the subject of the first lecture in a series at the Sunflower Theatre on media literacy and satire. Political cartoonists Ricardo Caté and Shan Wells will speak at the Sunflower Saturday on their role in public discourse.
Wells, a cartoonist for the Durango Telegraph, says there’s more to a cartoon than the illustration. It’s about the subsequent conversation.
“If you can get people into it … and get those issues out on the table so that it can be dissected and debated, then I think that’s a win for political cartooning,” Wells said.
Wells joined KSJD’s Daniel to break down a political cartoon’s effects of creating dialogue and incentivizing engagement in contemporary news.