Drawn Commuters Caricature as a visual historical resource
Drawn Commuters Caricature as a visual historical resource

Summary/Abstract: Despite of the fact that during the time of state socialism commuters meant a continuouslygrowing social group both in proportion and in size, writing about their social history hasbeen pushed into the background so far. The author’s aim is to fill this gap by trying to discoverthe most of the available sources of different genres. The present study shows part of thislarger volume work, it shows what it can add to our knowledge about a social group throughtraditional sources if we include caricatures of a given social group as visual historical sourcesin the analysis.In this paper, the author analyses sixteen caricatures of commuters, published in “LudasMatyi,” comparing written and audio visual sources. In the study, she tries, among other things,to find out if there was a definite commuter picture of “Ludas Matyi”, and if so, to what extentdid this commuter’s image differ from that of other products in the press? To what extent did thesatirical portrayal of commuters refer to long-distance commuters and to what extent to dailycommuters? Were the real anomalies of commuting in the era reflected in Ludas Matyi?The analysis discusses the economic and social processes that characterize the time ofpublishing the caricatures, and denominates the external and internal characteristics andemotions commuters were endowed with.The aim of the author is to present the method ofcaricature analysis, which emphasizes the comparability of resources

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