The great age of the cartoon character took place between World War I and World War II. The adventures of Mickey Mouse, Popeye and Donald Duck were followed avidly by millions. Even the political leaders of the grim world of the 1920s and 1930s were known to millions as cartoon characters - gawky, bespectacled Woodrow Wilson, the balloon-like Mussolini, and the moustache men Hitler, Stalin, Neville Chamberlain and Ramsey Macdonald. Published in newspapers or magazines with a wide circulation, political cartoons revealed much about popular concern in the world of the Depression, rising...

The grandeur of the great imperial powers of the 19th century - Britain, France, Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and even the burgeoning United States - was constantly subverted by the cartoonists of the day. As Roy Douglas reveals, cartoons are often more accurate guides to popular feelings than the newspapers in which they appeared. In this, his third look at history through the eyes of the cartoonist, Roy Douglas provides a clear historical narrative which explains the subtle meaning below the surface of the cartoons. Taken from the period leading to the First World War, these cartoons...

This work recounts the history of the period through an international collection of over 100 cartoons. This pan-European approach offers new perspectives of key themes, events and figures, forcing a reinterpretation of the familiar. Both establishment and subversive cartoons demonstrate the real concerns of all participants from the governments of the combatative powers to the soldier and those at home. This collection is intended to inform in a fresh way the continued historical debates surrounding the Great War and the implications which reach to the present day.