Professor David Taylor on graphic satire in eighteenth-century London (Toronto Star)

“Toronto Mayor Rob Ford can be thankful at least for this: Had he been mayor 200 years ago in Britain, newspaper cartoonists would have been even more ruthless, says a University of Toronto expert in political satire. ‘Without question, if the leading cartoonist back then — James Gillray — had depicted Rob Ford he would have been far more merciless than they are today,’ said English Professor David Taylor, who studies British political satire from 1750 and 1830, what he calls the golden age of caricature.”  You can read the full article here.