Dr Christian DuPont Director Boston College's Burns Library wrote: "I’ve been dipping into the Art Young catalogue during breaks between emails and meetings. It is extremely impressive in every respect, from the collection of essays and selections of his drawings and cartoons to the design, printing, and binding. One of the best examples of its kind, I would say.
The essay .....contributed (by Anthony Mourek and Valerie Higgins) is really informative and well done. You provide the context for understanding the drawings you have selected in a thorough, helpful, and interesting manner and also offer some really insightful examples of the interplay between cartoonist and editor, revealing the tensions that Art Young must have experienced at times between his own political views and those of the papers he worked for. Your piece on “Stealing Thunder” is enlightening in that respect, along with several others. Likewise your exploration of racial attitudes through the watermelon and Arab cartoons is really intriguing."
ANTHONY J MOUREK
990 N Lake Shore Drive-23E
Chicago, IL 60611 USAI gave a copy of the book to friend Dr Christian DuPont Director Boston "I’ve been dipping into the Art Young catalogue during breaks between emails and meetings. It is extremely impressive in every respect, from the collection of essays and selections of his drawings and cartoons to the design, printing, and binding. One of the best examples of its kind, I would say.
The essay that you and Valerie contributed is really informative and well done. You provide the context for understanding the drawings you have selected in a thorough, helpful, and interesting manner and also offer some really insightful examples of the interplay between cartoonist and editor, revealing the tensions that Art Young must have experienced at times between his own political views and those of the papers he worked for. Your piece on “Stealing Thunder” is enlightening in that respect, along with several others. Likewise your exploration of racial attitudes through the watermelon and Arab cartoons is really intriguing."
ANTHONY J MOUREK
Chicago, IL USA
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From the Publisher
Art Young (1866–1943) was one of the most renowned and incendiary political cartoonists in the first half of the 20th century. He made his reputation appearing in The Masses on a regular basis, using lyrical, vibrant graphics and a deep appreciation of mankind’s inherent folly to create powerful political cartoons.
In 2017, Fantagraphics published a sweeping career retrospective, To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life & Times of Art Young, reprinting for the first time in sixty years over 800 of Young’s timeless, charming, and devastating cartoons and illustrations, many reproduced from original artwork, creating a fresh new portrait of this towering figure in the worlds of cartooning and politics. And now also available is Art Young's Inferno, the cartoonist's classic reinterpretation of Dante's Inferno as a satirical indictment of capitalism—reprinted and reproduced as it has never been seen before!
