Graphic Witness is a great site for political and graphic art (the above Goya image is from the site). The organization is featured in a Canadian show on wordless graphic novels. If you are interested in propaganda, the site has a terrific archive of old posters.
TheStar.com - Books - Wordless graphic novels show rich art:
Communications theorist Marshall McLuhan once noted that yesterday’s technology becomes today’s art form. He also observed that when a thing becomes obsolete, there’s more of it around than ever. Walker agrees on both counts. “It’s funny when something becomes obsolete, all the artists drag it out of the garbage.”
He notes the success of numerous companies that sell old-fashioned printing presses, which satisfy an aesthetic emotion digital art cannot duplicate.
“They give a different type of image on the paper,” Walker says of these obsolete technologies. “You can use hand-made paper, or paper with different textures that you can’t run through a laser printer. You can sink an image into the paper so that you actually feel that impression, that embossment in the paper. It’s a beautiful thing.”
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