Cartoons and caricatures as an art form speak directly to everyone. They can do many things: amuse, arouse, enrage, convert, inform, reform or ridicule. Here is an engrossing and comprehensive history of the artists who have used the medium that ranges from sixteenth-century Arcimbolo to Goya, Hogarth to Herblock, Daumier to Maudlin, Tenniel to Thurber.
