On 24 October 1929 the New York stock market crashed. 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.ĬARTOON. 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. This book shows that humour was one of the key weapons of war, with countries using cartoons to demoralise their opponents and maintain morale. Hitler, Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt and Mussolini were a gift for them and, as this collection shows, one they weren't about to turn down. 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. inonthe editor's conference,the latestheadlines in place andonly the matter of your cartoon to be resolved. Try toimaginehowitmusthavefelttobe a cartoonist during World War II: walking to the office through the bombed streets of.
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