The Ruling Clawss by Syd Hoff

The Ruling Clawss by Syd Hoff

Published under the pseudonym A. Redfield by prominent>New Yorker>contributor Syd Hoff in the 1930s, these mordant and marvellously drawn gag comics skewer the rich and powerful with a pointed pen.

If you were reading>The Daily Worker in the 1930s, you'd have come across the words of Woody Guthrie and Richard Wright, along with the cartoons of the mysterious A. Redfield. Redfield was actually>New Yorker cartoonist and future>Danny and the Dinosaur author Syd Hoff.

Scorning what he saw as the complicity and stale yucks of cartooning peers like Peter Arno, Hoff set his sights on the rich and powerful and revealed them for what they were: hilariously inept, deeply selfish, and incredibly dangerous.

Hoff spared nothing from his pen, lampooning police brutality, thin-skinned industrialists, racists, and the looming threat of fascism at home and abroad.

Still powerfully funny and troublingly resonant, these cartoons confirm what the legendary Milt Gross prophesied when he met Hoff as a high school student: Kid, someday you'll be a great cartoonist

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Syd Hoff has given much pleasure to children everywhere as the author and illustrator of numerous children's books, including the favorite I Can Read books Sammy the Seal, The Horse in Harry's Room, and the Danny and the Dinosaur books. Born and raised in New York City, he studied at the National Academy of Design. His cartoons were a regular feature in the New Yorker after he sold his first cartoon to that magazine at the age of eighteen. His work also appeared in many other magazines, including Esquire and the Saturday Evening Post, and in a nationally syndicated daily feature.

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ISBN 13	9781681377414
ISBN 10	1681377411
Titel	The Ruling Clawss
Autor	Syd Hoff
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2023-05-30
Seitenanzahl	150
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.
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