Cartoonists of America

This newspaper page presents fifteen leading American editorial cartoonists of the 1900 campaign season, arranged in portrait medallions around Homer Davenport, the central figure from the *New York Journal*. The layout itself demonstrates the visual strategies emerging in newspaper graphics: portraits within decorative frames, hierarchical composition, and text integration. These cartoonists—including Frederick Burr Opper and John T. McCutcheon—shaped the visual language of political commentary through bold line work and exaggerated caricature. Their work appeared daily and Sunday in major metropolitan papers, establishing recurring visual motifs and satirical characters that directly influenced the development of comic strips and eventually comic books. This page documents a crucial moment when newspaper cartooning was establishing itself as both a commercial enterprise and an art form.