Satire: From Horace to Yesterday's Comic Strips

This collection of cartoons, poems, stories, and essays is designed to give you a broad view of satire and make you more aware of satire in the mass media. Editorial comics, song parodies, and television shows like Saturday Night Live are actually part of a tradition that goes back to early in recorded history. Satire has been used as a form social and political expression for thousands of years; as long as even a single person sees flaws that need to be pointed out in society or institutions, it will remain an important tool.