"Where he can be kept out of mischief?" This
1917 Iowa cartoon shows the sneaky, ugly
German-American. Cartoons like this one
fostered violent assaults on the innocent. Jay
Norwood “Ding” Darling worked in Iowa
before moving to New York and working for
the government doodlers via the New York
Globe and the New York Herald Tribune. He
was published in newspapers across the USA
and rode the anti-German hate wave, winning
him Pulitzer Prizes. He was later made head of
the Bureau of Biological Survey. Cartoons like
this one fostered suspicion and hatred, yet
even today they draw no scorn.
1917 Iowa cartoon shows the sneaky, ugly
German-American. Cartoons like this one
fostered violent assaults on the innocent. Jay
Norwood “Ding” Darling worked in Iowa
before moving to New York and working for
the government doodlers via the New York
Globe and the New York Herald Tribune. He
was published in newspapers across the USA
and rode the anti-German hate wave, winning
him Pulitzer Prizes. He was later made head of
the Bureau of Biological Survey. Cartoons like
this one fostered suspicion and hatred, yet
even today they draw no scorn.
During the War, the title of the innocent Hearst
comic strip the 'Katzenjammer Kids' became
to 'The Shenanigan Kids', and its German-
American boys Hans and Fritz were replaced
by Mike and Aleck of a Dutch background.
After the war, the Katzenjammers returned.
comic strip the 'Katzenjammer Kids' became
to 'The Shenanigan Kids', and its German-
American boys Hans and Fritz were replaced
by Mike and Aleck of a Dutch background.
After the war, the Katzenjammers returned.
The Cartoon Bureau not only worked with its own US government, it regurgitated British cartoons.
One cartoon book told the story of Germans boiling down corpses for fat, deliberately mistranslating
the word "kadaver" as "corpse" to circulate the story of German corpse factories. Invented in Britain
in 1917, the story was not exposed as false until a 1925 debate in the House of Commons. Even
then, it was so effective that it, along with other tall tales such as the human soap and lampshade
myths, were easily resurrected during the next war. Working for the government propagandists often
paved paths for new careers and offered lucrative futuress for otherwise mediocre unknowns.
One cartoon book told the story of Germans boiling down corpses for fat, deliberately mistranslating
the word "kadaver" as "corpse" to circulate the story of German corpse factories. Invented in Britain
in 1917, the story was not exposed as false until a 1925 debate in the House of Commons. Even
then, it was so effective that it, along with other tall tales such as the human soap and lampshade
myths, were easily resurrected during the next war. Working for the government propagandists often
paved paths for new careers and offered lucrative futuress for otherwise mediocre unknowns.