The Ruling Clawss: The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff Jamie Coe - Lizz Lunney

- Lizz Lunney

and dismantling beliefs about what constitutes a “good” comic is key to finding something organic

director of Tekkonkinkreet

A must-read for Tomine fans and all aspiring cartoonists

hilarious and at times breathtakingly inventive

The Ruling Clawss: The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff Jamie Coe - Lizz LunneyBy Syd Hoff. Published by New York Review Comics. Softcover, 184 pages, B&W, 1930s 1940s (2023 printing) During his career as a New Yorker cartoonist, and before he wrote Danny and the Dinosaur, Syd Hoff wrote under a different name. He was A. Redfield, a cartoonist for the communist newspaper the Daily Worker, and a scourge of the rich and powerful. Scorning what he saw as the complicity and stale jokes of cartooning peers, Hoff set his sights on the