He first used the donkey in 1870 to represent an antiwar faction he disagreed with, and the next year he used the image of an elephant in a cartoon warning Republicans that their infighting would ...

Thomas Nast’s cartoon shows a donkey in a lion’s skin scaring an elephant and other animals. (Library of Congress) Why is the elephant the symbol of the Republican Party and a donkey the ...

(Jackson won the race, which featured vicious mudslinging.) A political cartoon of Jackson riding a donkey appeared in 1837. His political opponents called Jackson a “jackass” for espousing ...

Ask any adult about this scene, and they will gladly tell you that witnessing that cartoon child’s transformation into a donkey messed them up. You would think, in that case, that when given the ...

The 1870 Harpers cartoon credited with associating the donkey and the Democratic Party On January 15, 1870, Nast published the cartoon that would forever link the donkey to the Democrat.

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A judge has ruled against a video gamer known for holding the world record in Donkey Kong who claimed that a cartoon character portraying him as a bearded, floating head ...

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) - A judge has ruled against a video gamer known for holding the world record in Donkey Kong who claimed that a cartoon character portraying him as a bearded, floating head stole ...