Roll Out The Barrow

Saturday Caniff School Day.

Continuing my efforts to clean up my computer files, I am going to do 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. So 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 political cartoons from when he left AP in the late forties for a proper position as the resident cartoonist of the Jersey Journal. Where he stayed on until deep in the sixties.I will be showing more of those tomorrow.