{"id":1785987,"date":"2018-07-25T08:44:06","date_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:44:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=1785987"},"modified":"2018-07-25T08:44:06","modified_gmt":"2018-07-25T12:44:06","slug":"another-caricature-map-of-modern-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/another-caricature-map-of-modern-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Caricature Map of Modern Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Updated &quot;Serio-Comic Map&quot; of Europe 2018 (after Fred W Rose), complete with Renaissance &quot;wind-heads&quot; for a nice, satisfied client. Lot of work but very enjoyable (and probably out of date by tomorrow) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/politics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#politics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Europe?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Europe<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/BB3ZNVFW8u\">pic.twitter.com\/BB3ZNVFW8u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Davey (@DaveyCartoons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveyCartoons\/status\/1008606643708481536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 18, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In December 2016 cartoonist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.andydavey.com\">Andy Davey<\/a>\u00a0created, for a private client, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/a-serio-comic-map-for-the-modern-age\/\">a modern-day &#8220;serio-comic&#8221; map of Europe<\/a> in the style of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/tag\/caricature-maps\/\">caricature maps<\/a> that proliferated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Now he&#8217;s created <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveyCartoons\/status\/1008606643708481536\">another one in the same style<\/a>, this one even better than the last: it features political figures in the shape of their countries, with leaders from elsewhere in the world blowing wind in Europe&#8217;s direction. Very easy to get lost in the detail here. [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/100509989851\/permalink\/10158205378984852\/\">WMS<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated &quot;Serio-Comic Map&quot; of Europe 2018 (after Fred W Rose), complete with Renaissance &quot;wind-heads&quot; for a nice, satisfied client. Lot of work but very enjoyable (and probably out of date by tomorrow) #politics #Europe pic.twitter.com\/BB3ZNVFW8u&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/another-caricature-map-of-modern-europe\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"autoblue_enabled":true,"autoblue_custom_message":"","autoblue_shares":[],"autoblue_post_url":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[134,378],"class_list":["post-1785987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-art","tag-caricature-maps","tag-cartoons","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1788840,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2020\/05\/the-monsters-of-maps-a-video-about-caricature-maps\/","url_meta":{"origin":1785987,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;The Monsters of Maps&#8217;: A Video About Caricature Maps","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"26 May 2020","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/NQjiH78Z5Sw \u201cThe Monsters of Maps,\u201d a 10-minute video by Richard Tilney-Bassett, explores the late-19th- and early-20th-century phenomenon of \u201cserio-comic\u201d or caricature maps, which are no stranger to us here. 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