A Tatar Rodchenko?

An interesting article here about a Tatar artist who used caricature in his works. 

Drawing the Curtain

An exhibition held in London recently, to celebrate the launch of a new book by Tim Benson, on cartoon imagery from USSR and the West during the Cold War.

Efimov - Stalin anecdote.

A famous Efimov anecdote, re-told in an article produced about the time of the artist's death.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4871005.ece

The Cartoon in Wartime Propaganda

A very interesting exhibition on the role of cartoons in wartime propaganda.

http://www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/iss/archives/cartoons/index.html

Cartoonia.ru - The БOЛЬШАЯ ЭНЦИКЛОПЕДИЯ КАРИКАТУРЫ

Fantastic online resource, including interviews, archives of images and artist biographies.

http://www.cartoonia.ru/

Israel and the Jews in the Soviet Mirror

This is an interesting collection of Soviet cartoons depicting Israel and the Palestinian conflict which has appeared for sale on Ebay.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140589269916#ht_500wt_1153

Boris Efimov, 'For Enduring Peace', 1950

I recently purchased a copy of this book. There are some familiar images in it, and it is a fantastic resource.

The book is a collection of around 50 cartoon images.

The depiction of Winston Churchill in Efimov's 1950s cartoons is an interesting aspect of his work. Perhaps Churchill serves as an individual symbol of aggression and suspicion, rather than the personification of British foreign policy? Other representations of Britain dwindle (John Bull, a British lion, for example).

This picture, of Boris Efimov and his son, reading the book after its publication in 1950, appears in Efimov's autobiography.

Boris Efimov, 'Hitler and His Gang', 1944

Copy of this rare book for sale on eBay at the moment.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HITLER-AND-HIS-GANG-Cartoons-BORIS-EFIMOV-1944-/300569418284?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item45fb555a2c#ht_5109wt_1140

Karikatura na sluzhbe so︠t︡sialisticheskogo stroitelʹstva : katalog vystavki / vstupitelʹnye statʹi M.Z. Manuilʹskogo i B.M. Nikiforova :: Rare Books Published in Imperial and early Soviet Russia

Fascinating catalogue on the significance of caricature and cartoons to building the socialist project in the eraly USSR, digitised and available for free online!

Karikatura na sluzhbe so︠t︡sialisticheskogo stroitelʹstva : katalog vystavki / vstupitelʹnye statʹi M.Z. Manuilʹskogo i B.M. Nikiforova :: Rare Books Published in Imperial and early Soviet Russia