Harlen Makemson

Books

An Introduction to Visual Theory and Practice in the Digital Age, with Brooke Barnett, David Copeland, and Philip Motley (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2011).

Media, NASA, and America’s Quest for the Moon (New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2009). 

Book Chapters

“Desperately Seeking the Center: Critiques of U.S. Propaganda Posters During a ‘Highbrow’ vs. ‘Lowbrow’ Age,” in Communication and the First World War, edited by John Griffiths, 118-137. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge, 2020.

“Anglophobia as Art: Free Trade and Protection in Grover Cleveland Political Cartoons,” in Sensationalism: Murder, Mayhem, Mudslinging, Scandals, and Disasters in 19th Century Reporting, edited by David B. Sachsman and David W. Bulla, 141-154. New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2013.

Refereed Journal Articles

“From Gibson Girl to Gibson Goddess: The World War I Illustrations of Charles Dana Gibson in Life Magazine,” Journalism History 49, no. 3 (2023): 181-200.

“Beat the Press: How Leading Political Cartoonists Framed Protests at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention,” Journalism History 32, no. 2 (Summer 2006): 77-86.

“One Misdeed Evokes Another: How Political Cartoonists Used ‘Scandal Intertextuality’ Against James G. Blaine,” Media History Monographs 7, no. 2 (2005): 1-20.

“Private Vice and Public Virtue: Political Cartoons as ‘Opprobrious Discourse’ Against Grover Cleveland During the 1884 Presidential Campaign,” International Journal of Comic Art 6, no. 2 (Fall 2004): 90-117.

 “A ‘Dude and Pharisee’: Cartoon Attacks on Harper’s Weekly Editor George William Curtis and the Mugwumps in the Campaign of 1884,” Journalism History 29, no. 4 (Winter 2004): 179-189.

Encyclopedia Articles

“Cartoonists, Political.” In The SAGE Encyclopedia of Journalism, edited by Gregory A. Borchard, 277-283. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 2022. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781544391199.n72.