Roll Out the Barrow Some More

Sunday Caniff School Day. Continuing my efforts to clean up my computer files, I am doing another megadump of cartoons, this time of the wartime political cartoons of one of my favorite Associated Press cartoonists, Hank Barrow. Barrow followed in the footsteps of Milt Caniff when he took over de daily panel The Gay Thirties in the late thirties. He continued to do a lot of work for AP (as Caniff had), some of which I have show here in other posts. In the early forties he took over the political cartoon duties from Noel Sickles (whose wonderful cartoons I have shown here as well). Barrow was equally good, mixing the Caniff/Sickles influenced style with an extra load of humor (espcially when he was using his 'everyman' character). I have shown many of his cartoons here from my own scans, which I was able to make when I aquired a whole box of his war cartooons. But still, I did not have all of them. ASo when i ran across a paper that ran them, I started clipping micro-fiche scans. Today's post represents a bunch of them. Follow the links for more Barrow goodsness, including some of his later politicaal cartoons from when he left AP in the late forties for a proper position as the resident cartoonist of his home town. Where he stayed on until deep in the sixties. Yesterday I showed few from 1940 and 1942. Today I found a couple from 1940, two dateless ones from my own collection and two that were part of a cartoon overview in the weekly magazine Editor and Publisher.