TOW #6 Political cartoon Save the Twinkie Nick Anderson

This political cartoon, drawn by the Houston Chronicle’s editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson, is making fun of the fight to bring back Twinkies. The issue that the cartoon has brought up is how there are a lot of people rallying for the Twinkie to make a come back, and not enough people fighting to save Earth.  The article shows the mass of people marching around with their “Save The Twinkies” sign and has two other people off to the side holding a “Save The Earth” and one of them saying “We’re doomed.” The intended audience for this piece is the general public. Since it is in a newspaper it has to appeal to all types of people. The cartoon also has to depict something that is both funny and important for the reader to look at. The artist wanted to send a message to the readers saying the we need to not focus on trivial things like the Twinkie and focus on more important things like saving the Earth. A tool that the artist used when creating their political cartoon was the juxtaposition of the two groups. The artist paints the Twinkie group as mad individuals rushing and screaming for the Twinkie to come back. He depicts them as a large group of different individuals wide eyed and screaming. Then on the left hand side he depicts the Earth side. He displays this group as two people who are merely standing there as onlookers to the chaos of the Twinkie group. I believe that the artist was able to show their point of view for the issue successfully. The author clearly and comically displayed the outrageous behavior of those who wanted to have Twinkies, a mild inconvenience, and those who are fighting to protect the Earth, a more real threat if not attended to.