Existing comment:
(11) Rubbing It In, 1944.
Published in the New York Sun, August 20, 1944.
Crayon, India ink, opaque white, and graphite with scraping out.
Art Wood Collection of Cartoon and Caricature
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-DIG-ppmsca-03646 (11)
Rube Goldberg (1883-1970), best known for his crazy inventions, created forceful editorial cartoons while working at the New York Sun. This anti-Japanese World War II cartoon shows General Jonathan Wainwright slamming the face of a Japanese soldier into the Filipino province of Bataan. While Wainwright did not participate in the recapture of Bataan due to his incarceration in a labor camp in Formosa, Goldberg suggests that the moral victory over the Japanese would be his. Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Reuben Lucius "Rube" Goldberg used his intelligence, humor and gift as an artist in creating serious editorial cartoons. |