So, I am reading – a decade a day – the late great Tony Husband’s book The 20th Century in Cartoons” (to be clear, he selected them, he didn’t draw them.) See also The Onion’s Our Dumb Century.
This decade, in my mind is one of…horror. Extreme violence and then the promise of nuclear war.
What I didn’t know: xxx
Katzenjammer 1 : hangover 2 : distress sense 2 3 : a discordant clamor. Katzenjammer comes from German Katze (meaning “cat”) and Jammer (meaning “distress” or “misery”).
Erich Schilling Erich Schilling was born in Germany in 1885. He studied art and developed a style that one critic has described as imitated the “bold, ragged lines and strong tonal contrasts of German medieval woodcuts”.
Schilling worked for Kladderadatsch and Simplicissimus and although he was critical of the Nazi Party in the early 1930s, he changed his views after Adolf Hitler gained power. Whereas some of Germany’s cartoonists such as Thomas Heine and Walter Trier left the country, Schilling became a fervent support of the new regime.
During the Second World War, Schilling portrayed Winston Churchill as a drunk. Erich Schilling committed suicide when the Third Reich collapsed in 1945.
Boris Yefimov (Stalin’s favourite cartoonist) Boris Yefimovich Yefimov (né Fridlyand; Russian: Борис Ефимович Ефимов; October 11 [O.S. September 28] 1900,[1][2] – 1 October 2008) was a Soviet and Russian political cartoonist best known for his critical political caricatures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis produced before and during the Second World War, and was the chief illustrator of the newspaper Izvestia.[3][4] During his 90-year career he produced more than 70,000 drawings.[5]
Haldane on Lysenko and the Daily Worker being assholes
Paul, D. 1983. A War on Two Fronts: J. B. S. Haldane and the Response to Lysenkoism in Britain. Journal of the History of Biology Vol. 16, No. 1 (Spring, 1983), pp. 1-37
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/haldane-as-scientist-and-celebrity
Samanth Subramanian devotes much of the first chapter of his biography of the legendary biologist J. B. S. Haldane to Haldane’s notorious refusal to condemn Lysenkoism during a 1948 BBC television broadcast. Haldane, who was by that time famous both as a scientist and as a member of the British Communist Party, gave an uncharacteristically short and equivocal commentary on Trofim Lysenko’s state-sanctioned attack on genetics. His defense of Lysenko was weak, but he had been confronted with a critical choice between his science and his politics, and he had chosen the party. Subramanian characterizes this event as a defining moment and makes it central to the book’s narrative.
In the pages that follow, we learn that Haldane’s passions for science and politics intertwined throughout his life. His popular science writing, his political advocacy, and his love life brought him notoriety, and he remained a popular and controversial figure throughout his long career. Subramanian’s biography offers a portrait of Haldane’s celebrity, which was furthered by both his science and his politics
Sam Cobeam inventing the “thought bubble” at the New Yorker
Events I hoped/expected to see but were missing (but there’s only so much you can get in!):
The camps – but again, too heavy a topic?
Three best cartoons
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