RAEMAEKERS Cartoons of WWI vol 2 - 107 Satrical Cartoons about events during WWI

By Louis Raemaekers

This is Vol. 2 of raemaeker's satrirical cartoons pf WWI. Herein are 107 more satirical cartoons from the cartoon master Louis Raemaeker which end off the second year of WWI. With so many atrocities committed by both sides, Raemakers was not short of material.

One hundred years before WWI, Napoleon is reported to have said that the English caricaturist James Gillray "did more than all the armies in Europe to bring me down.”
Likewise, during World War I, no cartoonist exercised more influence than Louis Raemaekers of Holland. Charged with "endangering Dutch neutrality," he fled to England. His satirical newspaper cartoons led the German Government to offer a 12,000 guilder (±US250,000 in 2014) reward for his capture, dead or alive. A German newspaper, summarizing the terms of peace Germany would exact after it won the war, declared that “Indemnity would be demanded for every one of Raemaekers' cartoons.”

Raemaekers cartoons were also instrumental in fighting against deeply entrenched American isolationism. When, in 1917, the United States entered the war, Raemaekers embarked on a lecture tour of the USA and Canada, rallying the new allies for support and arguing the case for mobilisation against the German Empire. The Christian Science Monitor commented “From the outset his works revealed something more than the humorous or ironical power of the caricaturist; they showed that behind the mere pictorial comment on the war was a man who thought and wrought with deep and uncompromising conviction as to right and wrong.”

All too often art critics, art historians, aestheticians, and others have dismissed cartoons and caricatures as silly — not serious — trivial, and irrelevant. Yet, as you will see with the cartoons in this first volume, here are cartoons and caricatures that, in retrospect, possibly had more effect on the German High Command and German populace than possibly a new  Allied offensive, giving weight to the adage “The Pen is Mightier than the Sword.” - if only pen and paper could have been used to greater effect in this, the Great War.
 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Abela Publishing
• Release date: Jun 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9788826462158

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RAEMAEKERS’

CARTOON

HISTORY OF THE WAR

VOLUME TWO

THE SECOND TWELVE MONTHS OF WAR

COMPILED BY

J. MURRAY ALLISON

Editor of Raemaekers’ Cartoons, Kultur in Cartoons,

The Century Edition de Luxe Raemaekers’ Cartoons, etc.

Originally Published by

THE CENTURY CO.

NEW YORK

[1919]

Resurrected by

ABELA PUBLISHING

London

[2014]

Raemaeker’s Cartoon History

of the War Vol. 2

Typographical arrangement of this edition

© Abela Publishing 2014

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2014

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CONTENTS

Foreword

VOLUME TWO

The Anniversary, August, 1915

King Albert's Answer To The Pope

A Stable Peace

Thrown To The Swine

The Martyred Nurse

The Yellow Book

U'S

Pallas Athene: Has It Come To This?

The Next To Be Kicked Out

September, 1914, And September, 1915

Idyllic Neutrality

What Should We Do Without Michael?

We Don't Understand This Loan Game

The German Loan

Wounded First

The Morning Paper:—Great News

Van Tromp And De Reuter

The Marshes Of Pinsk

Cheer Up, Austria, You Have Germans And Bulgarians To Help You This Time

Ferdinand, The Chameleon

Serbia. Autumn, 1915

October In Serbia

The Kaiser Counts The Bag

The Entry Into Constantinople

Go To Your Hereditary Enemy, Bulgaria

They Bowed The Knee Before Him

Driven From The Temple Of Humanity

The Old Serb

New Peace Offers

Ferdinand S'en Va T'en Guerre Ne Sait S'il Reviendra

The Voice Of The People

Truth

The Evacuation Of Gallipoli

Christmas, 1916

New Year's Feast Of Kultur

The Poilu

The Trials Of A Court Painter

Von Der Goltz Goes To The Promised Land

The Burial Of Private Walker

Come And Be Happy At Potsdam

Tom Thumb And The Giant

On The Way To Bagdad

The Holy War

The Kaiser: Your Ruthlessness Has Failed, Tirpitz; I Must Pin My Faith To Count Zeppelin.

Gott Strafe England

William: You Lead New Regiments Upon Verdun, Whilst I Weep Over The Losses Of The Old Ones.

Nobody Sees Me, So I Can Always Deny It.

Pan Germanicus As Peace Maker

We Have Only Come To See That The English Don't Threaten You.

Hohenzollern Madness

My Son Lies Here, Where Are Yours?

The Old Poilu

German Chivalry On The Sea

The Eternal Barrage

Von Bethmann-Hollweg's Peace Song

Why, I Have Killed You Twice And You Dare To Come Back Again!

Mais Quand La Voix De Dieu L'appela Il Se Voyait Seul Sur La Terre Au Milieu De Fantomes Tristes Et Sans Nombre.

The Deportations From Lille

The Last Throw

Russia To France

The Death's Head Hussar At Verdun

Sir Judas Casement

Great Britain And Ireland

The Graves Of All His Hopes

The Sussex

I Thought You Said You Were Too Proud To Fight!

Indeed, I Am The Most Humane Fellow In The World.

Von Tirpitz: Well, My Dears, I'm Afraid You Will Have To Improve Your Manners—For A While At Least.

Well, Mr. President, If You Insist, We Shall Try To Behave Like Gentlemen.

Gott Strafe Verdun

German Militarism On The Allies' Operating Table

Empire Day, 1916

The Spring Song

The German:

The Wandering Jew

Gratitude Of The Women Of France To The King Of Spain For The Tracing Of The Missing

The Bill

The Last Ride

Caged

The Battle Of Jutland

At Last, Tirpitz, I May Tender My Imperial Thanks Publicly.

We Had Almost Beaten The Boy When His Father Arrived And Then We Had To Run For Our Lives.

Der Tag

German Admiral: How Quiet It Must Be In Those English Harbors Blockaded By Our Fleet.

The Death Of Kitchener

Crown Prince: We Must Have A Higher Pile To See Verdun, Father.

This Will Make William Jealous; It Beats His Nurse Cavell.

Summer Time, 1916—Five On A Bench

Civilisation: What Is The Verdict.

To The End

The Confederates

Bunkered

We Have Finished Off The Russians.

The Cossacks' Song Of Victory

Captain Fryatt

Before The Somme

The German Tango

The Wolf: Is It Not Time To Stop All Further Bloodshed?

The Deutschland Dispatch

Balaam And His Ass

Team Work

I Hope, My Dear Friends And Allies, That I Have Been Able To Make You Feel Happy And Confident Again.

Another Nail In Hindenburg

Seems To Be Neutral: Sink Him!

Now Also The Axe Is Laid Unto The Root Of The Tree

The Spirit Of France

Before The Fall

Europe: Am I Not Yet Sufficiently Civilised?

FOREWORD

The second year of the war opened in the West with the enemy, although superior in man power and munitionment, pinned down to a defensive line from Belfort to the sea. The new armies of the British Empire were still being raised and trained, and neither England