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1941.10.21 "Hit and Muss" by Vaughn Richard Shoemaker

Artist: Vaughn Shoemaker (All)

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1941.10.21 Hit and Muss by Vaughn Richard Shoemaker Comic Art

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Title:	1941.10.21 "Hit and Muss" by Vaughn Richard Shoemaker
Artist:	Vaughn Shoemaker (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	1,540
Likes on CAF:	0 1
Favorited on CAF:	1
Comments:	2
Added to Site:	12/30/2016
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"Hit and Muss" (October 21, 1941)
by Vaughn Richard Shoemaker (1902-1991)
22 x 24 in., ink on paper
Coppola Collection

No date on this one, but there is an interesting clue in the name of the boat.

In 1937, cartoonist Sir David Alexander Cecil Low (1891�1963) had produced an occasional strip about �Hit and Muss� (Hitler and Mussolini), but after Germany made official complaints he substituted a composite dictator, �Muzzler.� Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels told British Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax that British political cartoons, particularly those of Low�s, were damaging Anglo-German relations.

I am not sure if depicting the three Axis leaders together was common before the Tripartite Agreement (September 1940), so if this cartoon came this late, it might be in homage to Low from a fellow cartoonist (Shoemaker to Low: you were right�).

It is reasonable to guess that this pre-dates the entry of the US into the war in December, 1941, as these three �fishing� for world domination (as a commentary) would be stronger during the time that they were saying (in public) that Eurasia was their only target.

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steve staszower
Member Since 2005

Posted on 4/16/2017

Great piece - all three of the major Axis leaders!

Brian Coppola
Member Since 2009

Posted on 4/16/2017

thanks, Steve... agreed! having the trio "all in the same boat" is terrific to see

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