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political cartoons

Poor Donald Duck. He was just trying to get some shut-eye when a marching band featuring some of our favorite Axis leaders—Goebbels, Himmler, Mussolini—prods him out of bed with a bayonet at four in the morning. So begins Der Fuehrer’s Face, a surrealist 1942 American propaganda film created by Walt Disney in an effort to sell war […]

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Theodore Seuss Geisel is best known for the 40-something children’s books he wrote and illustrated under his pen name, Dr. Seuss. But he had quite an interesting “adult” career, as well. From 1941-1943, Seuss was the chief editorial cartoonist for the New York newspaper PM, and during his reign, he drew more than 400 political cartoons. […]

Every artist has a day job, at least at first. In the mid-80s, Art Spiegelman was editing Raw, his underground comics magazine, and writing and drawing issues of a comic book that would later become Maus. In the meantime, his salary came from being an illustrator and designer for Topps, a baseball-card company. As Spiegelman was getting ready for the […]

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