Summary Of A Political Cartoon By Nick Anderson

This is a political cartoon created by Nick Anderson, a Pulitzer Prize winning American editorial cartoonist. This cartoon focuses on the access to mental health. In the cartoon are stairs labeled access to mental health care that symbolizes the struggle and difficulty for a mentally ill person to receive care. Directly next to the stairs is a gun store with a welcome sign that seems easily assessable. Right in front of both the stairs and the store is a guy who is supposed to be mental illness but instead looks crazy. This is a good source of evidence to back up my claim on the stigma of mental illness. People tend to assume what a mentally ill person looks like and behaves like which is represented in this cartoon. The cartoon shows a relationship