Mark Bryant

Honest Abe’s War

Mark Bryant examines how cartoonists saw the most traumatic years of American history.

Boer Gore

Cartoons can allow us to see ourselves as others see us, often uncomfortably. Mark Bryant looks at cartoons produced across Europe about Britain’s involvement in an unpopular war in South Africa at the turn of the twentieth century.

Fun and War in Afghanistan

Continuing his series on how cartoonists have seen events great and small, Mark Bryant looks at the coverage of one of ‘Victoria’s little wars’.

Cartoons of the ‘Red Moon’

Continuing his series on how cartoonists have seen events great and small, Mark Bryant looks at the impact of Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to be put into Earth orbit and a Soviet triumph in the Cold War.

Pint-Sized Punch

Mark Bryant takes a look at a pioneering magazine that acted as a school for a whole generation of cartoonists.