Nov 28, 2011
30 bitingly satirical 1935 cartoons against the 1%
You may know Syd Hoff as the author of classic children’s books such as Danny and the Dinosaur and Sammy the Seal. Or you may know his cartoons from The New Yorker.
In addition to these more famous works, he is also the author of a little collection of political cartoons called the The Ruling Clawss published in 1935 under the pen name he used for his more radical work, A. Redfield. It is a collection of his contributions to the communist newspaper “Daily Worker.”
It satirizes the ruling class by featuring everything from a cop after a long, hard day clubbing protesters to rich old ladies praising the virtues of Nazi-occupied Berlin. Here are some of these cartoons…
(Link to images, via Retronaut, Sad and Useless, Philip Nel)
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not showing up on my computer… maybe it’s just me?
Is it possible you’re reading from work and your work blocks photosharing sites like imgur?
Yes. Possible and probably true.
You can probably see the pics at either of the first two “via” links. Sorry about that!
Thanks Abraham!
You could put any of these in the New York times, and they wouldn’t be out of place. We really haven’t changed in 80 years.
We really haven’t changed a lot in 10,000 years.
I told you that evolution crap wasn’t true.