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1945.03.24 “Little Man, What Now?” By Sy Moyer

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Title:	1945.03.24 “Little Man, What Now?” By Sy Moyer
Artist:	Sy Moyer (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
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Added to Site:	3/15/2020
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1945.03.24 “Little Man, What Now?”
By Sy Moyer (1887-1980)
9 x 11 in., pen and crayon on board

Moyer was an editorial and sports cartoonist for the Minneapolis Tribune and St Paul Dispatch.

Moyer is listed in a few places as being “1926-2016” but I am skeptical. There is another artist, a painter, named Sy Mohr, who is listed as 1926-2016 in a few places (but who was really born in 1923).

By the 1940s, the cartoonist Moyer seems to have been pretty well established, he was notes for his depiction of the Asian Enemy, and there are images of his well-worn work-desk which are unlikely for a 20-year-old.

This record exists: “SY MOYER was born 13 September 1887, received Social Security number 474-09-0126 (indicating Minnesota) and, Death Master File says, died August 1980.”

The Battle of Manila (Feb 3 – Mar 3 1945) was a brief and major battle of the Philippine campaign. It was fought by American forces from both the U.S. mainland and the Philippines against Japanese troops in Manila, the capital city of the Philippines.

The battle ended the almost three years of Japanese military occupation in the Philippines (1942–1945). The city's capture was marked as General Douglas MacArthur's key to victory in the campaign of reconquest.

The title (Little Man, What Now?) is an homage to a quite famous novel from pre-war Germany that documents the conditions in a turmoil-filled country on the brink. It was almost inadvertently critical of the rising Nazi ethos, to a degree that the text, well-known and in print, was edited in its later editions to revise references to the Nazis being seen in a bad light. As a colloquial saying, “Little Man, What Now?” took on that sense of impending doom at the rise of history-changing events, here a message to Japan as the war in Europe was on its last legs (this is a month before VE Day).

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