1943.02.10 "That takes all of the fun out of it" by Harold I (Tom) Carlisle

1943.02.10 “That takes all of the fun out of it”
by Harold I “Tom” Carlisle (1904-1993)
18.5 x 25 in., ink on board
Coppola Collection

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Tom Carlisle grew up in Jefferson, IA, and graduated from the University of Iowa. He joined the Des Moines Register as an assistant to J.N. “Ding” Darling, the newspaper’s long-time editorial cartoonist.  After Darling’s retirement in 1949, Carlisle served as the Register’s primary cartoonist until his retirement in 1953.

The hunter becomes the hunted. 

The war in the Pacific was cleanly in the hands of the Japanese until the successful defense battles at of the Coral Sea (May 1942) and Midway (June 1942). But the general perception of the tide turning towards Allied offensive power followed from the Battle of Guadalcanal (August 1942-February 1943). This campaign was followed rapidly by other major Allied offensives in the Pacific.