Asian Political Cartoons

John Lent is the preeminent scholar on the art, dissemination, readership, and impact of comics and cartooning in different cultures and global sites of this recalcitrant art form of graphical commentary. Lent is also the publisher and editor in chief of the International Journal of Comic Art, which many in the comics studies field hold in high regard. His history of engagements with the majority of Asian region's prominent cartoonists is collected in his latest book, Asian Political Cartoons. Lent initially grounds this volume by stating that the book is organized by the geographical segmentation of what “Asia” is, which is a way of corralling the contents, which serve as a collection of Asian cartoonists deemed by Lent as crucial to their country's newspaper industry. Lent's latest book serves as a credible primer on who's who in Asian cartooning, providing an encyclopedic take on cartooning as a practice...