Art Young was one of the most renowned and incendiary political
cartoonists in the first half of the 20th century. And far more -- an
illustrator for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and
Colliers, a magazine publisher, a New York State Senatorial candidate
on the Socialist ticket, and perhaps the only cartoonist to be tried
under the Espionage Act for sedition. He made his reputation appearing
in The Masses on a regular basis using lyrical, vibrant graphics and a
deep appreciation of mankind's inherent folly to create powerful
political cartoons. To Laugh That We May Not Weep is a sweeping career
retrospective, reprinting --often for the first time in 60 or 70 years--
over 800 of Young's timeless, charming, and devastating cartoons and
illustrations, many reproduced from original artwork, to create a fresh
new portrait of this towering figure in the worlds of cartooning and
politics. With essays by Art Spiegelman, Justin Green, Art Young
biographer Marc Moorash, Anthony Mourek, and Glenn Bray, with a
biographical overview of Young's life and work by Frank M. Young, To
Laugh That We May Weep is a long-awaited tribute to one of the great
lost cartoonists whose work is as relevant in the 21st century as it was
in its own time.
