Shoemaker worked for the Chicago Daily News from 1922 to 1952 and twice won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road Back (1938) and Still Racing His Shadow (1947). His famous creation John Q. Public was the American equivalent of Strube’s Little Man. His cartoons were criticised by Herman Goering who described his work as "horrible examples of anti-Nazi propaganda". Shoemaker was a devout Christian, and claimed that he knelt and prayed before starting to draw his daily cartoon. Later in his career, Shoemaker worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago American and Chicago Today.
Cartoons for sale:
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10th March 1964 - £365
- 30cm x 40cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed, 1969
- £365
- 29cm x 39cm
- Chicago American
- Caption Displayed, 1963
- £325
- 32cm x 39cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed, 1959
- £325
- 34cm x 45cm
- New York Herald Tribune
- Caption Displayed, 1969
- £375
- 30cm x 40cm
- Chicago American
- Caption Displayed, 1969
- £345
- 30cm x38cm
- Chicago Today
- Caption Displayed
24th Sept. 1968 - £345
- 30cm x40cm
- Chicago Today
- Caption Displayed, 1967
- £325
- 31cm x 41cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed, 1969
- £325
- 31cm x 41cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed, 1962
- £345
- 32cm x 40cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed
26th Nov. 1962 - £325
- 32cm x 40cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed
28th July 1966 - £275
- 30cm x 39cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed, 1970
- £335
- 30cm x 40cm
- Chicago Today
- Caption Displayed, 1965
- £385
- 31cm x 40cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed, 1957
- £345
- 34cm x 43cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed, 1968
- £285
- 30cm x 42cm
- Chicago's American