Newspaper cuttings of Vicky cartoons, articles, reviews

Reference No:
U DP172/8
Dates:
1953-1966
Description:

Includes:

a) Section 1 - Comprises of cartoons, some are specifically about World War 2 or Harold Macmillan, also contains an article about Vicky joining the Evening Standard.

b) Section 2 - Contains cuttings from newspapers, some of which are articles illustrated by Vicky, some about Vicky himself, one about SuperMac, including one in his defence by Nigel Birch MP. Political cartoons generally reference Harold Macmillan and post-war global politics.

c) Section 3 - Cartoons' themes comprise of geopolitics, the nuclear arms race, dangers and insecurities of the Cold War, McCarthyism, politics of USSR, mocking Harold Macmillan and Tory party use of 'radical-sounding' rhetoric, apartheid/segregation and comparison with Nazism, and racism.

d) Section 4 - Cartoons mocking nuclear arms race, Tory denial of post-war issues, cricket in apartheid era South Africa; newspaper cutting of article about Vicky's work, life, and history.

e) Section 5 - Cartoons detailing socio-political issues faced by post-war Germany, mocking Toryism and England's politics, one on his move to the Daily Mirror, the nuclear arms race and Cold War, a cartoon criticising the death penalty, Cold War proxy violence in the Middle East, Vicky's visits to Moscow and Germany; also contains article by William Connor under pseudonym 'Cassandra' praising Vicky.

f) Section 6 - Cartoon about Germany and Japan's post-war prosperity, one humorously comparing Maoism to Marx's actual work.

Format:
Archive Item
Extent:
6 files
Language:
Access Conditions:
Access will be granted to any accredited reader
Repository:
Hull University Archives
Collection:
Papers of Victor Weisz ("Vicky")