[Cartoon] How He's Changed!

1930. Very Good. Shoemaker inscribed draft of one of his 1930 cartoons, this one making light of how the Mississippi River hurtled abruptly from problems of flooding in 1927 to drought in 1930. The river is represented in 1927 by a menacing, bullying giant caveman, and in 1930, by a feeble, long bearded ancient caveman. A bewildered and desperate Uncle Sam is shown on a dock with his top hat held by one hand and sweat flying off his head, as the dialogue bubble has him expressing: "It's hard to believe you are the same fellow". The cartoon is on heavy card, 48 by 32 cm. Shoemaker was a highly successful editorial cartoonist. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning twice, in 1938 and 1947, and among other things, he was the creator of the character, "John Q. Public". During his career he was connected with several newspapers, with his longest gig with The Chicago Daily News, where he was the chief cartoonist at the time he created this cartoon. The inscription is to a Bud Anneman. We believe that this might be a well-known magician whose full name was Theodore Annemann, but that is only a guess. The card has a light coat of dusty soiling, much of which can be removed by eraser. (Inventory #: 19931)