Cartooning from the Margins: Digital Exhibits on Newspaper Cartoonists

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

  • Tyrone Lee – Data Visualization: BATMANN!!

    Data Visualization: BATMANN!! Link to Data Visualization: https://w.wiki/7hjx Data Visualization is a powerful tool for conveying information and gives insights through graphical representations of data. The visualization I thought to consider was that from a query talking about the popular superhero or vigilante, batman. Utilizing the wikidata to give a query that gave around six…

  • Comics before 2000

      Wikidata Visualization   2. This is a visualization of comic books with inception dates before 2000. This data table shows the Q-Number of each item that is listed, as well as the itemLabel. The itemLabel, in this case is the title of the comic book followed by a brief description where available. The data…

  • Asia Garcia, SPARQL Visualization Assignment

    https://w.wiki/7h97 The visualization I made was a data table that depicted artists who are non-binary and born in the United States. I chose these specific statements because my cartoonist, Bianca Xunise, fits all these values. Bianca Xunise was one of the people that was a result in the table. As for what is being effectively…

  • Wikidata Visualization – Holden Habermacher

    https://w.wiki/7gYE This visualization shows comic books written in the French language. I used item, item label, and item description tabs to build a visual representation. Some of the labels are QID numbers and some are the names of comic books. Item descriptions are either “french comic book”, blank, or a bit of additional information about…

  • Wikidata Visualization – Nicole Burney

    This is visualizing mountains over 8,000 meters in elevation. The information is best shown as a map and a table. The map effectively shows the locations of the fourteen mountain ranges with peaks over 8,000 meters. The map is helpful in seeing location and how close or far apart the mountains are to each other.…

  • Data Visualization- Cori Nichols

    https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/graphic-literature/gncorpus/charts/countryOfOriginIllustrator.php I chose one of the GNC Visualizations that shows different illustrators’ countries of residence. This visualization has both a graph and a map that I found to be really helpful when looking at to be able to see both displays of this data. These graphs display the different countries where illustrators live. When considering…

  • Data Visualization – Holden Habermacher

    This visualization is created based on the data from the GNC Visualization page under “Authorship By Genre”. It is composed of discrete information (pg. 89) as the information does not change over time. The labeling (pg. 90) is helpful as it shows the main comic genres into which the data is sorted. The graphic variables…

  • Data visualization analysis on Gender of Illustrator Grouped by Primary Publication Year

    Gender of Illustrator Grouped by Primary Publication Year This visualization shows the distribution of comic book illustrators according to their gender over time. From the Golden Age of Comics to today, you can track changes in gender representation within the industry by grouping illustrators by their primary publication year. Information Shown: The x-axis represents the…

  • Data Visualization Post

    https://query.wikidata.org/embed.html#%23Superheroes%20in%20Marvel%20Universe%20with%20their%20enemies%0ASELECT%20%3Fchar%20%3FcharName%0A(GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT%20%3Fenemy_ofLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22)%20AS%20%3Fenemy_of)%0A(GROUP_CONCAT(DISTINCT%20%3FuniverseLabel%3B%20SEPARATOR%20%3D%20%22%2C%20%22)%20AS%20%3Funiverse)%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Fchar%20wdt%3AP1080%20wd%3AQ931597%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP9071%20%3Ftype%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP1080%20%3Funiverse%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP7047%20%3Fenemy_of.%0A%20%20FILTER%20CONTAINS%20(%3FtypeLabel%2C%20%22superhero%22)%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%0A%20%20%20%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fchar%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FcharName.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Funiverse%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FuniverseLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Ftype%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3FtypeLabel.%0A%20%20%20%20%3Fenemy_of%20rdfs%3Alabel%20%3Fenemy_ofLabel.%0A%20%20%7D%0A%7D%0AGROUP%20BY%20%3Fchar%20%3FcharName%0AORDER%20BY%20%3FcharName%20 The visualization that I chose is the bar chart of “Marvel Superheroes and their Enemies.” Bar graphs are usually intended to compare and contrast differences between pieces of data. In this case, it is being used to show the different enemies in the Marvel universe for each of the superheroes within Marvel. This graph…

  • Jamilah Ganyuma – Visualization

    https://groups.uni-paderborn.de/graphic-literature/gncorpus/charts/ageAuthor.php The visualization showcases the a bar graph detailing comic books authors age at the time of publication. There’s a second graph that separates the authors by gender. Typically, a bar graph is an easy way to compare discrete values (88). This visualization accomplishes this, with the x-axis showing the age, which is separated by…