Political cartoons, similar to speeches and essays, all have a subject, an author or in some cases an illustrator, and of course an audience. They often appeal to rhetoric devices such as, ethos, logos, and pathos. These rhetoric devices appeal to a specific category, ethos is the author or illustrator, while logos is the subject, and pathos appeals to the audience. The political cartoon is our President, Barrack Obama, holding a poster of the Pope. In this image, Obama is smiling and says, “Thought you might like this!” and the Pope is smiling at the image of himself. The characteristics are very dramatic and drawn to create an effect for the audience. The characters, Barrack Obama and the Pope, were both drawn to give a humorous effect to