Popular Culture: Everyday Diversions in Extraordinary Times
Enemy and overconfidence
cartoons
The following editorial cartoons related to lampooning enemy leaders and warning
against home front overconfidence
are
from the Civilian
Front newspaper,
which collected them from various
newspapers nationwide.
"Back
the attack on the home front!"
"Opportunity
knocks."
"Just what he's waiting for."
"Here's that man again: Whoopee,
we just took Sicily and the war's over! Time to celebrate, pal!"
(Image and caption source: Various Newspaper Editorial Cartoons, Civilian
Front Newspaper, 1942-1943. Folders 5-8, Box 34, Defense Council Records,
OSA.)
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