Iran and Cartoons

Published in Boston.com (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/cartoons/20090615_ink_tank/)

Cartoons are especially powerful tools and can:

• Tell a complex story in a few images
• Provide comment and provoke thought on events and issues in the news
• Give an example of vocabulary related to current trends and fads
• Provide easily identifiable characters to form the basis for sketches
• Show culture in action with the ways that men or women are behaving and are expected to behave
• Comment on and illustrate a whole range of issues like racism, teenage relationships, sexism, ageism, family relationships.

Source: British Council; http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/language-assistant/teaching-tips/using-cartoons-comic-strips