Political Cartoonists and the Law
Phiddian, Robert Andrew; Handsley, Elizabeth
Political cartoonists feel various forces for ‘censorship’ on and in
their work. Often these are informal pressures that are based on
moral or commercial interests, or the amorphous notion of ‘good
taste’.1 This chapter seeks to focus on the formal legal pressures on
cartoonists. We suspect that cartoonists fear (and are led to fear by
cautious editorial staff) more legal sanction than is likely to be the
case, and that ‘legalling’ of cartoons before publication is often a
cover for other sensitivities. But we first need to look at the state of
the law.
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