: The Cartoonists' Vision Roy Douglas , Roy Ian Douglas Psychology Press , 1992 - 353 pages , 1992 - History 0 Reviews Cartoonists recorded the exploits of the political leaders of the grim world of the 1920s and 1930s in cartoons which were followed by millions.

Comic, mordant and irreverent, political cartoons often reveal more about the contemporary concerns of a world experiencing the Slump, rising nationalism and aggression than either official documents or the work of most journalists. Published in newspapers or magazines with a wide circulation, they 'made sense' to the ordinary reader. More than half a century on, that sense of immediate identification has been lost, and political cartoons of the period now need detailed explanation.

Through this book, it is easy to trace the decay of hope in the 1920s through the fear of war in the early 1930s to the determination, at the decade's end, that Nazism and Fascism 'must be stopped'. These cartoons, intended for the man and woman 'in the street' in Europe, North America, the Soviet Union and Asia, mirror the changing attitudes and beliefs of those 'ordinary' people as nations shaped up for the Second World War. Preview this book »