Cartoons are expected to be, in nature, quaint and dense; something one would not typically associate with politics. Intertwined within their text and illustrations, political cartoons are, at their base, clever, witty jabs taken at various political situations and politicians in order to cause the reader to inflect and take a person stance on the situation. All of these responses simultaneously being accomplished through the behind-the-scenes scope of that the cartoonists who, as a rhetor, will typically look to skew or contort their audience’s view on a certain political subject. It is through this elaborate process of cartoon creation that various elements such as humor and are picked up along the way to help ease down the sometimes harsh content of political cartoons into something pleasing and easy to grasp. In his political cartoon, Steven Breen, compares presidential candidate Donald Trump to a super bug, illustrating the potential danger of his political direction through emphasis of cast, text, and kairotic timing to expertly guide his audience towards questioning how lucrative his leadership would be to our country. In the cartoon illustrated and written by Steve Breen, a single floating, green, virus among a sea of other viruses drawn with having bright orange hair, bushy eyebrows, thick lips and a suit-clearly a depiction of presidential candidate Donald Trump. The sea of bright green viruses swim across a backdrop of …show more content…
“The ancient word Kairos basically means time,” writes Longaker and Walker in their book Rhetorical Analysis “in the particular sense of a moment in time, and especially the right time or the opportune time.” Surrounding the beginning of the presidential race was an unfor\seen spreading of