Some Toons from the 30s

[Ichingcarpenter]

More here :http://www.flickr.com/photos/16938754@N02/6292374080/in/set-72157627880460449/

[baldguy]

1. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[mdmc]

4. 1

[Blue_In_AK]

36. Isn't that the truth?

I say that all the time.

[LiberalEsto]

2. Wow

k&r

[IADEMO2004]

3. Good find. K&R

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. About the Cartoonist

Syd Hoff’s Teeth: The Leftist Satire of A. Redfield


While he was contributing to the New Yorker as Syd Hoff, he was also contributing to the Daily Worker and New Masses as A. Redfield — the pseudonym he adopted for his radical work. The Ruling Clawss (Daily Worker, 1935) collects his cartoons originally published in the Communist daily. Contrary to what all published biographies (except for the one in Julia Mickenberg’s and my Tales for Little Rebels) allege, Hoff’s first collection of cartoons was not Feeling No Pain (Dial, 1944). His first such collection — and, in fact, his first published book — was The Ruling Clawss.



More information here

http://www.philnel.com/2011/02/02/hoff_teeth/


Syd Hoff is one of the foremost and prolific cartoonists in the United States, a regular contributor to newspapers, magazines, and children's literature. He is the author and illustrator of such early-reader children's classics as Danny and the Dinosaur, Sammy the Seal, and Grizzwold. The Syd Hoff Papers contain book dummies, typescripts, galleys, illustrations, and color separations related to forty-six books published between 1958 and 1993. They also include more than 1700 cartoons drawn for newspapers and magazines between 1946 and 1977.


and more information here.

http://www.lib.usm.edu/~degrum/html/research/findaids/DG0465f.html

[LeftishBrit]

7. Wow! He was one of my favourite authors as a kid!

I remember 'Danny and the Dinosaur'; 'Julius'; 'Stanley'; etc. - they were great!

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. I thought the drawing style seemed familiar!

[surrealAmerican]

10. It's well worth following that first link, too.

Thank you for bringing these cartoons to our attention.


It's amazing to be hearing the exact same stupid, discredited "arguments" from the right-wing today as Hoff was parodying nearly 80 years ago. It shows that we've lost far too much of the progress we made after those times.

[LeftishBrit]

6. Some things don't change!

[Scuba]

8. The last one. Thanks for posting these.

[Huey P. Long]

9. Fascinating. Same as it ever was. -eom

[Starry Messenger]

11. k&r

[myrna minx]

12. K&R n/t

[ZombieHorde]

13. They still work today. Recommended. nt

[Tsiyu]

14. These are too great to drop

so I'm kicking

[Solly Mack]

15. k/r

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. kicking!

[TriMera]

17. K&R. n/t

[Fire Walk With Me]

18. We had the same problems. They were the 99%!

[progressoid]

19. Rec.

[Morning Dew]

20. "The day's work is done, sir"

at the link. Biting.

K&R

[Ichingcarpenter]

37. Here is that toon for all to see... yes I liked that one too

[Morning Dew]

39. Thanks. I spaced out on my photobucket password

or I would have fetched it myself.

[Lochloosa]

21. Wow

[blindpig]

22. Same as it ever was. n/t

[Kolesar]

23. Grotesque

In just the right amount

[Poll_Blind]

27. Agreed. nt

PB

[surrealAmerican]

24. kick

These are still as fresh as the day they were drawn.

[alittlelark]

25. That last one really got to me.

;(

[liberation]

26. These 80 yr old cartoons certainly put "Hope and Change" in context

don't they?

[MrMickeysMom]

28. Isn't THAT a reality check?

You don't even need to change a word... THIS speak volumes of our evolution as a species.

[iamthebandfanman]

29. heres a couple of my favs

EDIT: and for a lil added fun, a neat article from The Nation in 1933 ...
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~ma02/volpe/newdeal/devaluate_ed.html

[Scruffy1]

30. Thanks!

It just to show how illusory the "reforms" were. I've come to believe without a "radical" left that is strong like the communists were in the thirties the big money won't budge an inch. The reforms such as Social Security all came out of the workers pockets, not the rich.

[mckara]

31. Poignant Reminders of the Importance of Studying History

Thank you for posting these editorial cartoons!

[HughBeaumont]

33. K & R.

Greed never changes, it only takes amphetamines and steroids.

[socialist_n_TN]

34. Kick. THIS is the reason that history is important

And it's also the reason that capitalism has to go. THIS is what it ALWAYS turns into, as these toons prove.

[DissedByBush]

38. What would you replace capitalism with?

Any of the socialist success cases throughout the world such as, well, uh...

Dunno, how many people do we want to kill this time? How many human rights do we want to crush? How much of the environment are we going to destroy?

I'm sure you'll get it right THIS time, like all the others thought.

Purity is for the chemists. Mixed systems are best, and nothing succeeds without some capitalism running through the system, because capitalism is human nature. To stop it is to crush human nature.

[socialist_n_TN]

46. And here it goes. EVERY FUCKING BODY WANTS

to think it's possible to design a foolproof socialist system in an internet post. WTF??? But since I can't, lets just go right ahead with what we're doing. Neofuedalism is SO much better than anything else we could replace it with. :sarcasm:

But just to note, I've made SEVERAL suggestions as to what I would do in general terms, starting with a national GA to discuss what would replace capitalism. As a START, I'd lobby at that GA to nationalize all general welfare industries, then all interstate industries, then provide governmental support with tax breaks and loans to intrastate worker's co-ops and owner/operators. I'd pay for it all with confiscatory taxes on wealth above a certain TBD level and the reassessment of the mission of the DoD away from being the enforcement arm of global capitalism and into true national defense ONLY. I'd institute a demand economy at least up to the point where EVERY citizen of this country was fed, sheltered, clothed and had a living wage job through government jobs programs.

I wouldn't outlaw small scale capitalism outright and I'd make it so that even the large scale capitalists left in the world had to compete with government run non-profit programs. At least then, even if they survived, their power would be broken.

[DissedByBush]

52. Oh crap, if I hire one more worker, make one more dollar

I will be a "big company" and the government's going to nationalize it. That's incentive to grow.

Start simple: Remove the fake personhood of corporations. That kills a huge number of problems with one simple policy change.

We at least agree the Department of DEFENSE needs to stick to its name. The way it is now we should just use the old name, War Department.

[socialist_n_TN]

54. Naw. Just turn it into a worker's co-op........

Then you'd get government tax breaks for the company.

[DissedByBush]

57. Why give up what you built?

You're the one putting in 16 hour days, you're the one who risked your savings, now you have to just give it away because the government thinks its too big?

[orbitalman]

35. K & R

[JDPriestly]

40. Those cartoons could have been drawn today. Amazing.

Same old, same old. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

http://www.politicususa.com/en/14-secret-gop-words

[Ignis]

41. K&R

:kick:

[Sherman A1]

42. K&R

:kick:

[brettdale]

43. Wow oh wow

80 years on, its still the same.

[flpab]

44. shared on facebook

I annoy the hell out of people but if one looks and sees things different it was worth it.

[Octafish]

45. ''Give him a nickel, sweetheart.''

Know your BFEE: Merchants of Death

[Ichingcarpenter]

47. The cartoonist worked for the Worker's daily

but got his toons in every major newspaper.
He saw the Republicans and Democrats as two peas in the same pod.

Couldn't happen these days, unless you are Bill Hicks or George Carlin.

[Octafish]

48. Infinite thanks! As a parent and as a reader, I've always loved Syd Hoff!

I had no idea he also was Mr. Redfield.



The genius absolutely pegged the 1-Percent and understood what the world could be if those with the means really gave a damn about those less fortunate.

[Ichingcarpenter]

50. I grew up with his children books in the 50s

never realized how 'Red' he was LOL.

[SwampG8r]

49. that these are still valid today

shows what a truth he had noticed

[liberaltrucker]

51. K & R

Thanks for posting!

[L0oniX]

53. K & R ...4th one says it all.

[burrowowl]

55. How timely!

[Duer 157099]

56. Looks like obesity was a problem back then, too

As well as other issues being addressed, of course.