ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on cartoons, the most rhetorical among the images disseminated by the press. It examines the ways in which cartoonists, both west and east, defined the eastern European ‘group person’, constructing one of the most persistent images identified with the region. The chapter pays attention to the tropes of self-fashioning, to the ways in which the transnational communist space and body was constructed from within, by cartoonists confined inside the Iron Curtain area. It also presents a post-scriptum on representational codes applied to eastern Europe by post-1989 cartoons and their disappearance from newspaper pages in recent decades. Punch provides an astonishingly fertile ground for examining the ways of drawing eastern Europe.
