"Art Young was one of the most picturesque and highly regarded cartoonists of his generation, one of the early masters of the medium. Usually forgotten these days, he was, in his day, the subject of a certain amount of sensational news coverage. And he can be credited with a couple of historic firsts, too. But mostly, he was an artist of principle at a time, the turn of the 19th into the 20th century and immediately thereafter, when cartoonists weren't yet particularly noted for doing much more than making funny faces."
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R.C. Harvey, "The Life and Dedication of Art Young: An Impassioned Cartoonist of Uncompromising Principle" in The Comics Journal (2018)
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Art Young
1866 β 1943
Arthur Henry Young (January 14, 1866 β December 29, 1943) was an American political cartoonist.
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