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    Cartoons of World War II
    Cartoons of World War II
    Cartoons of World War II
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    Cartoons of World War II

    By Tony Husband

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    In peacetime cartoonists are a diverse collection of individuals with their own styles and projects, but when the trumpets of war blow it is like unleashing the dogs of war. Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Mussolini were a gift for them and, as this collection shows, one they weren't about to turn down. This book shows that humour was one of the key weapons of war, with countries using cartoons to demoralise their opponents and maintain morale. Each country had its own style: the British liked understatement, showing people drinking cups of tea while bombs fell, whilst the Germans chose Churchill serving up a cocktail of blood, sweat and tears to an emaciated and sickly British lion. Showcasing the very best cartoons from Britain, the USA, Germany, Russia plus the work of all of WWII's greatest cartoonists, including Bill Mauldin, Fougasse, Emett, David Low and Graham Laidler (Pont), this book is guaranteed to make you laugh.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcturus Publishing
    Release dateJul 5, 2013
    ISBN9781782127079
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      Sometimes the best way to get a feel for an era is through its cartoons. These are collected from various countries during the period of World War II. Are they the best of the era? I can't say, because I am not knowledgeable enough. Some of them just plain don't work, partially because they are from a time we don't remember, and partially because they are from a culture we don't understand. The easiest to comprehend are those from our own cartoonists, as we have a sense of our own culture that we don't have with others. And it is important to remember that political cartoons are not always funny, so don't expect a laugh riot. It is an interesting look at the history of another era.

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    Cartoons of World War II - Tony Husband

    CARTOONS

    OF WORLD WAR II

    EDITED BY TONY HUSBAND

    Picture research: Frances Evans

    With thanks to Gerald Patejunas

    This edition published in 2013 by Arcturus Publishing Limited

    26/27 Bickels Yard, 151–153 Bermondsey Street,

    London SE1 3HA

    Copyright © 2013 Arcturus Publishing Limited

    All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without written permission in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright Act 1956 (as amended). Any person or persons who do any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

    ISBN: 978-1-78212-707-9

    CONTENTS

    INTRODUCTION

    WAR IS COMING

    1939

    1940

    1941

    1942

    1943

    1944

    1945 AND ON

    INTRODUCTION

    Itry to imagine how it must have felt to be a cartoonist during World War II: walking to the office through the bombed streets of your city, diving for cover as the air raid sirens sounded all around you, worrying about friends and loved ones as you listened to daily news from the front.

    Life must have been very up and down, with stories of the gains, stories of the losses, and, all the time, lists of the dead, the dying and the missing. You would have found yourself sitting in on the editor’s conference, the latest headlines in place and only the matter of your cartoon to be resolved. You’d go to your desk to be faced with the usual blank page. What a responsibility. And what pressure there must have been. Your job was to portray the mood of a nation, to put down in drawn lines a nation’s anger, fear and hope. At the back of your mind, you would know that the cartoon was what people would remember, not the headline, not the thousands of printed words, but the image.

    Images define a war. They capture a moment in time and lodge it in the nation’s memory. Your cartoon would have to resonate with the soldier, the sailor and the candlestick-maker as well as the airman at the front, the factory girl, the farmer and the retired banker on air raid duty.

    What is so wonderful about the cartoons in this collection is how many cartoonists rose so brilliantly to the challenge. Their pens and minds were sharpened to a fine point by the responsibility put upon them by the gravity of the situation. They produced masterpieces on a daily basis. From every corner of the world, from every side of the conflict, cartoonists of every nation fired their savage, subtle barbs into the heart of the enemy. How Hitler and his henchmen must have raged at the images of them drawn in foreign newspapers. Similarly, Churchill, chomping on his cigar and drinking his nightly whisky, would have sighed at the pompous, drunken fool they made out of him.

    Adolf Hitler by Kukryniksy, the collective name for three Russian caricaturists, Porfirii Krylov, Mikhail Kuprilianov and Nikolai Sokolov (see here), 1942

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