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The Ruling Clawss

The Ruling Clawss

The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff

Cover of The Ruling Clawss New York Review Books
Cover price $24.95
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May 1, 2023 1215 days ago
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May 30, 2023 1186 days ago

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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.During his career as a New Yorker cartoonist, and before he wrote Danny and the Dinosaur, Syd Hoff wrote under a different name. He was A. Redfield, a cartoonist for the communist newspaper the Daily Worker, and a scourge of the rich and powerful.Scorning what he saw as the complicity and stale jokes of cartooning peers, Hoff set his sights on the ruling class 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.This new edition of The Ruling Clawss includes a new introduction by the historian Philip Nel, who reveals
 the story behind the rise and disappearance of Hoffʼs Redfield. The Ruling Clawss cements Hoff as a master of the gag comic, whose work remains powerfully funny and troublingly resonant.

Details

Format
Trade Paperback
Language
eng
Order requirement
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Distributor
PenguinRandomHouse
ISBN
9781681377414
Product code
9781681377414