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“Humor in America” has seen a significant number of people searching for political cartoons. As a form of visual humor, cartoons are a key facet of American humor. The study of visual humor was historically taken less seriously than the study of literary humor, although recent work has begun to rectify this disparity.

The editorial board of “Humor in America” would like to find a Visual Humor editor to post on a regular basis (one or two times per month) about visual humor in America. We envision this subject broadly-from Columbus (and before) to today’s newspaper; from all regions of America to the “Americas” imagined hemispherically; visual humor by Americans and about Americans; and visual humor of a wide range of genre-cartoons, comic strips, high art, folk art, graffiti, sculpture, film, advertisements, graphic novels, comic books, photographs, etc. etc.

You would have a wide range of latitude, with the caveats that we would like you to have a wide range of subjects. We may also have thematic goals for certain months that you could join in. Posts can be uploaded in advance and scheduled to help ease time contraints, and your “job” with us is flexible to accommodate for schedules and unexpected issues.

The posts can be shaped to meet your interests-we imagine something like our poetry editor’s efforts. Something like the recent post on Occupy Wall Street would also be in line with our goals.We would also hope that the visual editor could encourage scholars working in visual humor to contribute to the site.

If you are interested, please contact Tracy Wuster (.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)). Feel free to direct any questions that way as well.

By Tracy Wuster, Sun, November 20, 2011 - 5:52 pm
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