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Political cartoons as epideictic: Rhetorical analysis of two of the Charlie Hebdo political cartoons*
Abstract On January 7, 2015, 12 people were killed during the bombing of the Charlie Hebdo offices. What makes this especially chilling was that the attack was launched against a newspaper for publishing images of Muhammad used for satiric commentary. The following day, CNN’s Nick Thompson posted a series of political cartoons responding to the attack. Many employed the idiom, “The pen is mightier than the sword.” This analysis focuses on two of the cartoons using that idiom: Linus MacLeod’s “Powerful, More Powerful” and James Walmesley’s “Pencil and Eraser.” MacLeod’s cartoon maintains a fidelity to the adage, in that he employs the image of a pen, while Walmseley instead depicts a pencil, the writing instrument more typically associated with a cartoonist’s work. After a discussion of the history and nature of the idiom, this piece analyzes the comics by using the construction of narrative by Barry Brummett, and the construction of image offered by Molly Bang. The piece argues that the images function epideictically by praising freedom of speech and blaming terrorists.
期刊介绍:
First Amendment Studies publishes original scholarship on all aspects of free speech and embraces the full range of critical, historical, empirical, and descriptive methodologies. First Amendment Studies welcomes scholarship addressing areas including but not limited to: • doctrinal analysis of international and national free speech law and legislation • rhetorical analysis of cases and judicial rhetoric • theoretical and cultural issues related to free speech • the role of free speech in a wide variety of contexts (e.g., organizations, popular culture, traditional and new media).