Glenbow Museum celebrates century of Alberta editorial cartoonists
A new exhibit opening at the Glenbow Museum this weekend looks back at some of the best editorial cartoons to come out of Alberta in the last century.
"It's a really important way for journalists and artists to express opinions that may challenge common attitudes," said curator Aimee Benoit.
The exhibit will feature the work of Tom Innes, Everett Soop and Vance Rodewalt and Bob Edwards — who was the publisher of the weekly newspaper, The Calgary Eye Opener, from 1902 to 1922.
Benoit says she had no shortage of material because the museum has more than 6,000 cartoons in its archives.
She plucked 60 from that collection to create the 100-year retrospective.
"What I found when I was looking at the cartoons, there were certain themes really tended to repeat and had almost a cyclical nature through the century."
Themes such as food safety scares, women's rights, western alienation from central and eastern Canada and the boom and bust of Alberta's oil industry.
From Our Collection: Political Satire in Alberta runs from May 23 to Sept. 27.
