(Jackson won the race, which featured vicious mudslinging.) A political cartoon of Jackson riding a donkey appeared in 1837. His political opponents called Jackson a “jackass” for espousing ...

Thomas Nast’s cartoon shows a donkey in a lion’s skin scaring an elephant and other animals. (Library of Congress) Why is the elephant the symbol of the Republican Party and a donkey the ...

The 1870 Harpers cartoon credited with associating the donkey and the Democratic Party On January 15, 1870, Nast published the cartoon that would forever link the donkey to the Democrat.

The cartoon, titled “The Third Term Panic,” showed a donkey (representing the Herald and the Democratic press) wearing a lion’s skin (labeled “Caesarism") to frighten a group of animals.

The origins of these symbols date back over a century to political cartoons and the nature of American politics at that time. The use of the donkey and elephant symbols in U.S. politics is rooted ...

By the 1880s, Nast's cartoons had caught the public eye and established the donkey as the symbol of the Democratic Party. The elephant first was connected to Republicans in an 1860 issue of ...

He first used the donkey in 1870 to represent an antiwar faction he disagreed with, and the next year he used the image of an elephant in a cartoon warning Republicans that their infighting would ...

TRENTON, N.J. — A judge has ruled against a video gamer known for holding the world record in Donkey Kong who claimed that a cartoon character portraying him as a bearded, floating head stole ...

A play on the proverb “a live ass is better than a dead lion”, Nast’s cartoon carries a different message. In it the donkey—ears back, hind legs poised to deliver a vicious blow⁠—is ...

Some have suggested that the word “nasty” derives from the artist’s surname, and while this is almost certainly not true, one glance at his cartoons ... the Herald as a donkey wrapped ...

Ask any adult about this scene, and they will gladly tell you that witnessing that cartoon child’s transformation into a donkey messed them up. You would think, in that case, that when given the ...