Cartooning from the Margins: Digital Exhibits on Newspaper Cartoonists

Cartooning from the Margins: Digital Exhibits on Newspaper Cartoonists

Created by University of Richmond’s RHCS “Digital Humanities” students, Fall ’23.

  • Timeline Draft Reflection – Holden Habermacher

    Creating a visual time utilizes data visualization skills and trial-and-error to create a well-functioning project. It captures snapshots in time that represent the most important points in the cartoonist’s career. A longform visual exhibit is closer to keeping a journal. Creative writing skills are used to weave together a story that eloquently illustrates the life…

  • WikiData Visualization Major Assignment #1 – Holden Habermacher

    WikiData Query Link: https://w.wiki/7kCH My visualization shows comic characters sorted by sex or gender. I altered an SDSU Comics Project query about ethnic groups of all comic characters. This shows what I entered into the Query Builder. The displayed items on the Query Helper were “instance of any subclass of comics character” and “sex or…

  • Wikidata Visualization- Major Assignment #1

    Wikidata Visualization This comics subject is about fictional female characters created by cartoonist. This shows gender representation and discrepancy by cartoonist. The amount of men artists who have created female characters is far more when compared to women artists.  From this chart we can see that out of 63 artists, only 4 were female. This…

  • Will Kent

    Will Kent gave us a behind-the-scenes look at Wikidata’s operations and data collection process. He gives us details on Wikidata and the community that allows users to contribute data, and he also assists those working on projects to progress their work. Will taught me that anybody can be an editor, which is good because individuals…

  • Morrie Turner Timeline JS link+ Reflection

    Timeline JS final Link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vTZjWhx2ZWxmXPAAe8nhuUSMUHgjBJIWMpfec3begc0lV59dcOhsppmWPJGuy3kgYeHPEdf0vws_oj-/pubhtml https://timeline.knightlab.com/#preview-embed Google doc final link https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wSXcrvcvnjnonZgViubUwWDQHefkIADoPpOVrdNBU60/edit#gid=0 6 Sources https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrie_Turner https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/morrie-turner#:~:text=The%20son%20of%20a%20Pullman,police%20officer%20in%20Oakland%2C%20California https://kids.kiddle.co/Morrie_Turner https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6913527 https://www.illustrationhistory.org/artists/morrie-turner https://localwiki.org/oakland/Morrie_Turner   Reflection While working within Timeline JS there were a few hiccups just like any other project. Working with a website like Timeline JS I learned so many new things. This project allowed me to work…

  • TimelineJS: Keith Knight

    TimelineJS: Keith Knight

    [timeline src=”https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dPoSEdjoqA1ADQjBDI761nMqyTBDxXdzqwWUwq5Pfqk/edit#gid=0″ width=”100%” height=”650″ font=”Default” lang=”en” version=”timeline3″ ] My timeline serves as an informative and educational timeline of the life and major life accomplishments of Keith Knight. To begin, I start from the very beginning of Keith’s life. I go back to his hometown in Malden, Massachusetts to discuss his early life and early education.…

  • Steenz Visit- Reflection

    Steenz Reflection Upon her visit to the class, Steenz began by discussing her professional journey and how she arrived at her current position.  Steenz has a strong passion for comics and participated in our class discussion about their significance. A point that she made that really stuck to me was that comics can be viewed…

  • Will Kent Assignment

    Will Kent Reflection After listening to Will Kent speak and present to the class, I learned many things, especially about Wikidata. He walked us through intrusions on how to use Wikidata step by step which was very helpful for me. He touched upon ways we can visualize information and data we see, as well as…

  • Project 2 Nicole Burney

    Project 2  [timeline src=”https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ILsWb50XnRJ5oiNWhQAm2m2Hnf2cEQJQcG4w-rEwN3I/edit#gid=0″ width=”100%” height=”650″ font=”Default” lang=”en” version=”timeline3″ ] The process for this project was super fun and interesting. I had never used timeline before and it was an interesting experience learning about it, how to use it, and how to utilize it. To create my timeline, I first went through the information I…

  • Link to project two progress

    Carly Cohen, Keith Knight https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dPoSEdjoqA1ADQjBDI761nMqyTBDxXdzqwWUwq5Pfqk/edit#gid=0