Shoemaker, Vaughn (1902 - 1991)
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:
- Caption Displayed, 1964
- £275
- 32cm x 42cm
- Chicago's American
Uncle Sam Congress American Football cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1970
- £275
- 30cm x 39cm
- Chicago Today
Democratic donley and Republican elephant boomerang cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1957
- £345
- 33cm x 42cm
- Chicago's American
President Eisenhower and John Citizen cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1968
- £285
- 30cm x 42cm
- Chicago's American
Egypt Nasser Tank cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1957
- £345
- 34cm x 43cm
- Chicago's American
Suez Crisis Britain and America Nasser cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1965
- £385
- 31cm x 40cm
- Chicago's American
Charles De Gaulle Maginot Line cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
28th July 1966 - £275
- 30cm x 39cm
- Chicago's American
Poverty cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
26th Nov. 1962 - £325
- 32cm x 40cm
- Chicago's American
- Caption Displayed, 1962
- £345
- 32cm x 40cm
- Chicago's American
Common Market Soviet Propaganda cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1967
- £325
- 31cm x 41cm
- Chicago's American
Charles DeGaulle shotgun cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1969
- £345
- 30cm x38cm
- Chicago Today
- Caption Displayed, 1963
- £325
- 32cm x 39cm
- Chicago's American
Konrad Adenauer cartoon.
- Caption Displayed, 1969
- £365
- 29cm x 39cm
- Chicago American
President Richard Nixon cartoon.
- Caption Displayed
10th March 1964 - £365
- 30cm x 40cm
- Chicago's American
Chinese Communist Leader Mao Tse-Tung and Charles De Gaulle cartoon.
