Location: 6. Ralph Duzan Pollard – WWII Cartoon Sketchbook & Postwar Career
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ralph pollard
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These should have been used within military only periodicals if Pollard found an artist to fully refine the gags.
I think Pollard drew these more for himself than for publication. He graduated with an arts degree, worked as a commercial artist before the war, and later became Marketing Director for Procter & Gamble. Before the war he was rising in professional circles, but in uniform he’s a sergeant crawling in the mud, eating rations, and taking orders under fire. The sketches feel like a coping mechanism that eventually grew into a recurring character—part self-commentary, part survival outlet.
