Sketches from an Unquiet CountryCanadian readers have enjoyed their own graphic satire since colonial times and Canadian artists have thrived as they took aim at the central issues and figures of their age. Graphic satire, a combination of humorous drawing and text that usually involves caricature, is a way of taking an ethical stand about contemporary politics and society. First appearing in short lived illustrated weeklies in Montreal, Quebec City, and Toronto in the 1840s,