Post 2: comic analysis

The preceding comic deals with the issue of escalating college tuition costs. The comic shows two trucks moving students go off to college. The first truck is a u-haul, typical of new college students moving away from home. The second is a brinks truck with loads of money. The comic is implying that college students not only take all their stuff with them to college, but they also take a lot of money too. The author of this comic strip sarcastically questions the ridiculous tuition costs while poking fun at the financial situation of many families that send their children to college. Therefore, this political cartoon uses images to imply a substantial message, the insanity of college tuition. However, the rhetoric of this cartoon is made of both images and words.The words are just as important as the pictures in the comic strip because otherwise the reader would not understand where and what the trucks were doing. Because of both the words and the images, the reader can pick up on the implied message about the ridiculousness of rising tuition costs for a college education.