It is hard to escape the legacy of the Punch Magazine. From 1841 to 2002, the magazine cast a satirical eye on life in Britain. It charted the interests, concerns and frustrations of the country and today it stands as an invaluable resource not just as cartoon art, but as primary source material for historians.
Illustration by Bernard Partridge. Page sized 8 x 10 1/2 inches, shown slightly cropped, pulled from the British humor/satire magazine PUNCH, May 12, 1943, not a modern reproduction. Condition: war-time low-grade paper in excellent condition, clean, lays flat for easy framing; backside with unrelated text and may have some show through on the facing side (please look closely), as published.
SPLITTING THE SWAG. "What are you grumbling for, Benito? You've got what you asked for, haven't you?"
[The United States Board of Economic Warfare has attempted to make an estimate in figures of the total amount of loot taken by Germany from occupied Europe.]
--Hitler carries a huge bag of loot worth £9 billion while Mussolini only has a small pot of Tunis as thieves in a bank raid.
Punch, a magazine of humor and satire, ran from 1841-2002. A very British institution renowned internationally for its wit and irreverence, it helped to coin the term "cartoon" in its modern sense as a humorous illustration.
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