{"id":4016,"date":"2017-03-08T18:21:54","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/?p=4016"},"modified":"2017-03-08T18:21:54","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T23:21:54","slug":"a-serio-comic-map-for-the-modern-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/a-serio-comic-map-for-the-modern-age\/","title":{"rendered":"A &#8216;Serio-Comic Map&#8217; for the Modern Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">interesting job for private client; map a la 20thC political cartoon maps of Fred Rose etc; have taken liberties with geography <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fm0nAR22tE\">pic.twitter.com\/fm0nAR22tE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Andy Davey (@DaveyCartoons) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveyCartoons\/status\/808277271689777152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 12, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Last December political cartoonist Andy Davey posted <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/daveycartoons\/status\/808277271689777152\">a modern-day caricature map<\/a> that hearkens back to the eve of the First World War, when such &#8220;serio-comic&#8221; cartographic portraits\u00a0were common, but fully up-to-date and relevant to the Trump-Putin era.\u00a0[<a href=\"http:\/\/mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com\/post\/158019315742\/serio-comic-map-after-fred-rose-by-andy-davey\">Maps on the Web<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>interesting job for private client; map a la 20thC political cartoon maps of Fred Rose etc; have taken liberties with geography pic.twitter.com\/fm0nAR22tE &mdash; Andy Davey (@DaveyCartoons) December 12, 2016 Last December political cartoonist Andy Davey&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2017\/03\/a-serio-comic-map-for-the-modern-age\/\">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-4016","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":1785987,"url":"https:\/\/www.maproomblog.com\/2018\/07\/another-caricature-map-of-modern-europe\/","url_meta":{"origin":4016,"position":0},"title":"Another Caricature Map of Modern Europe","author":"Jonathan Crowe","date":"25 July 2018","format":"link","excerpt":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DaveyCartoons\/status\/1008606643708481536 In December 2016 cartoonist Andy Davey\u00a0created, for a private client, a modern-day \"serio-comic\" map of Europe in the style of the caricature maps that proliferated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 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