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Benjamin Franklin created the first political cartoon:
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true.The first cartoon appeared in Ben Franklin's newspaper The Pennsylvania Gazette on May 9, 1754. It appeared as part of an editorial by Franklin commenting on 'the present disunited state of the British Colonies. Another early cartoon from the 1700's appeared in the Massachusetts Centinel on January 30, 1788

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