The context and the background.
A controversial cartoon.
An academic account of political cartoons:
'In defence of the political cartoonists’ licence to mock', by Haydon Manning and Robert Phiddian of Flinders University in the Australian Review of Public Affairs, Vol. 5, No. 1, December 2004.
This is a response to an earlier article, 'Cartoonists and Political Cynicism', by
Michael Hogan, University of Sydney in the Australian Review of Public Affairs, Volume 2, Number 1, July 2001