How do you analyze a political cartoon?

I think the best way to analyze a political cartoon is to not look at things from  a literal perspective and to analyze what they could mean. For example a large bag of money crushing someone could mean the taxes being too high. Also another good way to analyze a political cartoon is to look not only at the mani part but also to the things around it that could give it a hidden meaning.

One point that I didn't write to analyze a political cartoon is actually analyzing it that the artist can use something more familiar to a person so that the reader can better understand what is happening. Also the artist may exccagerate a physical characteristic of  the person in the cartoon to make a point.

 This cartooon symbolizes the war with Spain over Cuba withn the USA literallly standing over Cuba.

 This political cartoon is a picture of Uncle Sam (Representing USA) in the Philipines helping the peope there like the USA was in the Philipines with Spain watching from a distance. The meaning is the the USA was in possesion of Philipines while Spain just watched.

 This political cartoon is about the Cuban missile crisis and it shows the USA represented by Uncle Same anxiously waiting to see what will happen and the Soviet union is watching from across the ocean.