Only the names have changed......

[rufus]

Good Lord! Has anyone seen this cartoon from the 1934 Chicago Tribune?



Doubt they’d print something like this today!



Could anyone come up with a more fitting description



of what is going on now?

 

[Ron in Regina]

Wow....

 

[petros]

We've been living what that cartoon portrays since 1933.

 

[bluedog]

The political activists of the day were the cartoonists. Truly brilliant, at times, they said it all without writing a word.
There were many 'readers' could not write OR read.

Graphic Witness: visual arts & social commentary
a great pictorial history of the genre.

Now we are all stuck with bobbing heads on the 24-7 for commentary, many of whom have never even written a column in a real newspaper. Some counterparts today started out in radio due to a sharp sarcastic voice that caught on.

 

[Nuggler]

The political activists of the day were the cartoonists. Truly brilliant, at times, they said it all without writing a word.
There were many 'readers' could not write OR read.

Graphic Witness: visual arts & social commentary
a great pictorial history of the genre.

Now we are all stuck with bobbing heads on the 24-7 for commentary, many of whom have never even written a column in a real newspaper. Some counterparts today started out in radio due to a sharp sarcastic voice that caught on.

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But, uh, if they couldn't read or write, how would they figure out the cartoon ?
Buncha people chuckin stuff off a wagon................;-)

go figure.

 

[Nuggler]

I like the WW1 cartoons with the "Huns" in their big, pointy helmets, bayoneting babies.

Now, for THAT no reading or writing is required.

Neat propaganda though