Drawing a Dialogue, Episode 12: History of Racism + Physiognomy in Cartooning

In the longest episode yet, Cathy + e present research on how racism affected the development of the visual language of cartooning. Spanning the 1700s to today, this episode explores the history of art education, caricature and how-to-draw books, and maps the history of minstrelsy in America, creating connections that informed early cartooning. In-depth research offers multiple samples of primary sources, including the art of “physiognomy,” the pseudoscience of judging character from facial features. For episode citation: https://comicarted.com/blog/2018/5/11/drawing-a-dialogue-episode-12