The Ruling Clawss av Syd Hoff

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<b>Published under the pseudonym A. Redfield by prominent <i>New Yorker </i>contributor Syd Hoff in the 1930s, these mordant and marvellously drawn gag comics skewer the rich and powerful with a pointed pen.</b><br><br>During his career as a <i>New Yorker</i> cartoonist, and before he wrote <i>Danny and the Dinosaur</i>, Syd Hoff wrote under a different name. He was A. Redfield, a cartoonist for the communist newspaper the <i>Daily Worker</i>, and a scourge of the rich and powerful.<br><br>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.<br><br>This new edition of <i>The Ruling Clawss</i> includes a new introduction by the historian Philip Nel, who reveals
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