Puck: What Fools These Mortals Be

Michael Alexander Kahn is the co-author of May it Amuse the Court: a political cartoon history of the Supreme Court and the Constitution and more than a dozen scholarly articles on the Presidency and the Supreme Court. He has assembled one of the country’s leading collections of political cartoons, which has been featured in numerous magazine articles and in an exhibit at the Grolier Club in New York in 2007. He is a frequent lecturer on the significance of political cartoon art and has developed educational materials based on the art for teaching on the university and high school levels and in museum programs.Richard Samuel West is the author of several books on American political cartooning, the most recent being Iconoclast in Ink: The Political Cartoons of J. N. Ding Darling (2012), and the editor of four collections of political cartoons. He was the founder and editor of ,em>Target: The Political Cartoon Quarterly (1981-1987), and the political cartoon editor of Inks, the Magazine of Cartooning, published by Ohio State University (1994-1997). He is the owner of Periodyssey, located in Easthampton, Massachusetts, which buys and sells significant and unusual American periodicals.