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To laugh is both our quickest means of escape, and one of our best means of confrontation. Not long after the invention of the printing press, the freedom of expression began manifesting as political cartoons, beginning, of course, with jibs at the British...  [c: United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3g05315] "Join, or Die". Pennsylvania Gazette. Philadelphia. May 9, 1754. Join, or Die is a well-known political cartoon, drawn by Benjamin Franklin and first published in his Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754.[1] The original publication by the Gazette is the earliest known pictorial representation of colonial union produced by a British colonist in America Dan Wasserman, editorial cartoonist for the Boston Globe, says: "I draw for the readers, either to make them think, or to make a connection with them. But mostly, to make them feel like they're heard. There's somebody that gets what they're going through..." We invite you to put your feet up, grab a cup of Joe, and look at these "sin-spiring" illustrations. They emerge from all corners of global society, and as Americans we share the impact equally when we see it from a cartoonist’s lens. The roughness of recent American politics; the never-forgotten attack on Charlie Hebdo; and if we observe closely enough, a rare look into what may be to come in America..
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