ABSTRACT
Political cartooning, declares Fatma Müge Göçek, has the potential to generate change by ‘freeing the imagination, challenging the intelligence, and resisting state control’ (Göçek 1998, p. 1). When text forms of rhetoric address political issues, they often put us on the defensive, but we tend to let our defences down when we read comics. Because we perceive them as ‘enjoyable rather than manipulative’, they can have a powerful impact on our attitudes (Turner 1977, p. 27).
