Questioning the Power of the Press
In this drawing for the leftist journal The Masses, Art Young attacks newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) by casting the capitalist press as a house of prostitution, where “Madam Editor” welcomes the “Advertiser Client.” Among his most famous cartoons, this drawing marks a shift from humor to politics that occurred in this publication where Young served as a founding editor and contributor from 1911–1918. Following study abroad, Young began his career by cartooning for Inter Ocean with Thomas Nast in Chicago. Later, he drew cartoons for Cosmopolitan, Puck, Collier’s, Hearst’s Evening Journal, Saturday Evening Post, and Life.
In this drawing for the leftist journal <em>The Masses</em>, Art Young attacks newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst (1863–1951) by casting the capitalist press as a house of prostitution, where “Madam Editor” welcomes the “Advertiser Client.” Among his most famous cartoons, this drawing marks a shift from humor to politics that occurred in this publication where Young served as a founding editor and contributor from 1911–1918. Following study abroad, Young began his career by cartooning for <em>Inter Ocean</em> with Thomas Nast in Chicago. Later, he drew cartoons for <em>Cosmopolitan, Puck, Collier’s, Hearst’s Evening Journal, Saturday Evening Post</em>, and <em>Life</em>.