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    This document provides 14 tips for creating effective editorial cartoons. Some key tips include staying informed on current events, creating cartoons that readers can understand without being spoon-fed, using humor to convey messages, avoiding stereotyping or poking fun at tragic situations, developing an original artistic style, limiting captions and labels, avoiding misspellings or poor grammar, and using symbols closely related to the topic being depicted. The overall message is to craft cartoons that are insightful, accessible to readers, and sensitive to the issues and events being commented on.

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    This document provides 14 tips for creating effective editorial cartoons. Some key tips include staying informed on current events, creating cartoons that readers can understand without being spoon-fed, using humor to convey messages, avoiding stereotyping or poking fun at tragic situations, developing an original artistic style, limiting captions and labels, avoiding misspellings or poor grammar, and using symbols closely related to the topic being depicted. The overall message is to craft cartoons that are insightful, accessible to readers, and sensitive to the issues and events being commented on.

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    This document provides 14 tips for creating effective editorial cartoons. Some key tips include staying informed on current events, creating cartoons that readers can understand without being spoon-fed, using humor to convey messages, avoiding stereotyping or poking fun at tragic situations, developing an original artistic style, limiting captions and labels, avoiding misspellings or poor grammar, and using symbols closely related to the topic being depicted. The overall message is to craft cartoons that are insightful, accessible to readers, and sensitive to the issues and events being commented on.

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    Editorial Cartooning Powerpoint

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    Vic Bel
    This document provides 14 tips for creating effective editorial cartoons. Some key tips include staying informed on current events, creating cartoons that readers can understand without being spoon-fed, using humor to convey messages, avoiding stereotyping or poking fun at tragic situations, developing an original artistic style, limiting captions and labels, avoiding misspellings or poor grammar, and using symbols closely related to the topic being depicted. The overall message is to craft cartoons that are insightful, accessible to readers, and sensitive to the issues and events being commented on.

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    Rene A.

    Aranda
    The Phil. Star Chief Cartoonist
     Tip 1
    Read up on current events and news. Being informed
    of issues will help you conceptualize editorial
    cartoons better.
     Tip 2
    Always create Cartoons with readers in mind.
    An editorial cartoon should neither be so
    shallow that it merely serves as an illustration
    of the editorial essay, nor it should be too
    complicated that it cannot be understood by
    the readers.
     Tip 3
    Humor is a great vehicle in conveying your
    message.Try to inject funny scenes or
    situations as often as possible into your
    cartoons.
     Tip 4
    Although editorial cartoons are generally
    humorous, avoid poking fun at tragic
    situations especially those that entail loss of
    innocent lives.
    • Example: accidents that result in deaths.

    • Editorial cartoons for these events should be


    subdued and somber
     Tip 5
    Political correctness is a must. Avoid
    stereotyping along racial, gender and religious
    lines.
    • Example: Using commercial sex workers
    especially women as symbols for HIV-AIDS and
    other sexually transmitted diseases.
     Tip 6
    Avoid executing editorial cartoons in manga
    or anime style. Try to develop your own
    distinct style. Remember that editorial
    cartooning is a traditional art form and your
    style should reflect your own culture.
     Tip 7
    Avoid using talk balloons. Let your work speak
    for itself. Remember, people who follow the
    editorial pages are educated and intelligent
    who need not be spoon-fed.
     Tip 8
    If balloons can’t be avoided, make sure the
    dialogue is witty and will enforce the message
    of the cartoon. Don’t use the balloon to
    portray the obvious.
    • Example: You draw a character who’s in pain
    and your balloon says “Ouch!”
     Tip 9
    For the same reason, limit labels or captions to a
    minimum.
    • Example: You draw a caricature of Erap
    and you label it “Erap”. It’s as if you
    yourself are not convinces that you
    drew Erap.
     Tip 10
    Watch out for misspelled words or wrong grammar. It
    may decide your cartoon’s fate in the judging proper.

     Tip 11
    Avoid using oversized captions and labels. They have
    the tendency to swallow the artwork itself
     Tip 12
    Try using labels and captions by integrating them into
    your artworks.
     Tip 13
    You may also use graphs, charts and maps as aids in
    editorial cartooning.
     Tip 14
    Use symbols that have close affinity to the subject
    matter being tackled.

     Example: Why use any other object to symbolize the dengue


    menace when it could be easily represented by the mosquito?

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