Hell Up to Date

By Art Young

A satirical journey through the levels of a stylized hell by a turn of the Twentieth Century Newspaperman. As our reporter Drant reaches the various areas of Hades he encounters the groups of evil-doers from his society of the time being punished by the Devil in various and befitting ways. Richly illustrated throughout by the famous and talented cartoonist Art Young.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Braunfell Books
• Release date: Feb 22, 2023
• ISBN: 9781805231301

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

TABLE OF CONTENTS 1

Hell up to Date. 2

ILLUSTRATIONS 6

A Word about Mr. Dante. 8

Hell up to Date. 15

Hell up to Date.

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THE RECKLESS JOURNEY OF

R. PALASCO DRANT, NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENT,

THROUGH THE INFERNAL REGIONS,

AS REPORTED BY HIMSELF.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

BY

ART YOUNG

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ILLUSTRATIONS

R. Palasco Drant,

The Late Mr. Dante, of Italy,

Mr. Dante’s Successor Falls off a Fast-Moving Train,

On the Way to Hell,

The Main Entrance,

The Register,

A View from Satan’s Private Office,

Mr. Satan’s Private Office,

The Hon. Mr. Satan,

A Delectable Pastime,

Captain Charon,

Crossing the River Styx,

Judge Minos’ Court-room,

The Political Caricaturists,

The Limited Express,

No Hilarity among the Tailors,

Down among the Mashers,

The Lawyers,

Inventor of the Barb-Wire Fence,

A Ball Game,

He Played the Cornet,

Key-Hole Reporters and Lazy Men,

The Umbrella-Borrower,

The Editors,

Satan Addressing the Strikers,

The Selfish Husband,

A Clumsy Ballet,

The Dentist’s Fate,

A Rebuke to Gormandizing,

Policemen,

Some Bad Amateur Photographers,

The Tramps,

The Society Bore,

Boodle Aldermen,

Board of Trade Gamblers,

Bunko Steerers,

Agile Defaulters,

Mendacious Individuals,

The Quack Doctors,

Poker Players,

The Female Department,

Cold Business Men,

The Kentucky Colonels,

The Monopolists,

The Ministers,

The Brute Pugilists,

Chronic Kickers,

A Guard of the Exit,

End of the Journey,

A Word about Mr. Dante.

Dante Alighieri was the first man to make a really thorough exploration of Hell. That was several hundred years ago. Even now there can be seen down there the famous gentleman’s footprints. Fortunately Dante had a guide, one Virgil, a poet for whom he had always shown a tender attachment.

The terms on which Virgil offered his services are immaterial here, though it is interesting to know how easily Dante, by timely use of soft words, induced this eminent poet to go ahead and perform such humiliating jobs as that of carrying the Italian across ravines of hissing snakes; of defending him against the onslaught of demons; or of chasing his laurel crown down a deep chasm after he had fallen in a fit.

Dante, when in that gloomy wood astray, discerns a form of one whose voice seemed faint through long disuse of speech. Frightened at first, he soon recovers and asks the specter’s name. The apparition tells him, in slow, measured blank verse, the story of his ancestry. When he has finished Dante starts forward with bulging eyes: And art thou, then, that Virgil? (Virgil grunts, for what better can a spirit do than grunt?) My master, thou, and guide! Thou art he from whom alone I have derived that style which for its beauty into fame exalts me. Thus it will be seen that Dante, through a little