Bosses of the Blueprint

"This is a newspaper of the editors, by the editors and for the editors."

February 9th, 2024

This political cartoon that parodies Joseph Keppler's "The Bosses of the Senate" to illustrate the corruption of the paper at the hands of the section editors. It also shows the text stating that the paper is "of the editors, by the editors and for the editors."

Status: Available

Found on page 3 of Volume 31, Issue 4 in the Arts and Entertainment section.

Crew

Director

Logan Bauer

Design

Logan Bauer

Support

Andy Tiu

Editing

Grayson Beckham

Ben Manfroy

Original "The Bosses of the Senate" cartoon

Joseph Keppler

Made using Adobe Photoshop 2024 and Adobe InDesign 2024.

Gallery

The image of the political cartoon as it appears in the paper.

The image of the cartoon on its own, unstretched.

"The Bosses of the Senate" by Joseph Keppler that this is based on.

Trivia

Logan Bauer, Grayson Beckham, Jake Dougherty and Jacob Schlessman are all clearly shown in the cartoon, where the other editors merely have their shirts edited.
The city bosses influence in government was covered in AP US History and was the reason why it was chosen to be parodied.
J.B. Wuxim appears in the crowd.
A "Lab" signature appears where Keppler's did initially.