The Ruling Clawss, by A. Redfield, was originally published by the Daily Worker (US) in 1935. It is now republished as The Ruling Clawss: The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff. Hoff was unknown to me. But after a career as a cartoonist for the New Yorker and Hearst publications from the 1930s he found fame in the USA as a children’s author and illustrator, with Danny and the Dinosaur (1958) selling more than ten million copies.
The Ruling Clawss, by A. Redfield, was originally published by the Daily Worker (US) in 1935. It is now republished as The Ruling Clawss: The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff. Hoff was unknown to me. But after a career as a cartoonist for the New Yorker and Hearst publications from the 1930s he found fame in the USA as a children’s author and illustrator, with Danny and the Dinosaur (1958) selling more than ten million copies.
A new book reprints a 1935 collection of cartoons by A. Redfield, the cartoonist for the New York City newspaper published by the Communist Party, The Daily Worker. But the real identity of A. Redfield was kept a secret for decades, and was actually famed gag cartoonist and author Syd Hoff (1912-2004), famous for his…