Satirical - Visual Metaphor

For this task, I looked at visual metaphors in general as one cartoonist will not do exclusively metaphors for their work. Examples I found showed 'sales in the toilet' [1] and 'unplugged from reality'. Because of all the political disasters that have happened in 2016, I decided to make my image based on it being a 'trainwreck' of a year and included some of the news items that made this year awful.

I have written each event on a separate carriage for clarity. Labelling items in this way is very important in many political cartoons as it shows what each element represents if it is not clear from the image context. 

References
[1] Sizemore

Bibliography

Cartoon Stock. 2016. Visual Metaphor Cartoons and comics. [ONLINE] Available at: https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/v/visual_metaphor.asp. [Accessed 12 December 2016].

Library of Congress. 2016. Cartoon Analysis Guide. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/presentationsandactivities/activities/political-cartoon/cag.html. [Accessed 12 December 2016].

The Top Tens. 2016. Worst Things that happened in 2016. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.thetoptens.com/worst-things-happened-2016/. [Accessed 12 December 2016].