Fred Ellis (1885-1965) was an American political/editorial cartoonist. His cartoons spoke to many of the issues of the day, both international (World War II, appeasement, the atomic bomb, the Korean War, Nazi war crimes, Communism) and those close to the heart of the American working-class family (unions, low wages, worker safety, Social Security, political corruption). A cartoonist at work. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... Appeasement is a policy of accepting the imposed conditions of an aggressor in lieu of armed resistance, usually at the sacrifice of principles. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ... Combatants UN combatants: Republic of Korea United States United Kingdom Canada Australia The Netherlands France Philippines Communist combatants: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea People’s Republic of China Soviet Union Commanders Syngman Rhee Chung Il Kwon Douglas MacArthur Mark W. Clark Matthew Ridgway Kim Il-sung Choi Yong-kun... This article is about communism as a form of society and as a political movement. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Social security primarily refers to a field of social welfare concerned with social protection, or protection against socially recognized conditions, including poverty, old age, disability, unemployment, families with children and others. ... World map of the Corruption Perceptions Index, which measures the degree to which corruption is perceived to exist among public officials and politicians In broad terms, political corruption is the misuse by government officials of their governmental powers for illegitimate, usually secret, private gain. ...

Ellis was part of the American Radical movement of the 1930s-1950s. He trained with Robert Minor and shared Minor's interest in the plight of the working man. In 1922 Ellis joined the Communist Party and a referral from Minor got him a job as cartoonist for the Daily Worker in New York. He worked in Berlin and Moscow for a time. In 1936 he returned to his job at the Daily Worker and taught at the American Artists School, a progressive independent art school directed by Harry Gottlieb whose board included many prominent Radicals such as William Gropper and as well as influential artists such as Margaret Bourke-White. Radical is derived from the Latin word radix, which means root. In various fields of endeavor, it can mean: Sciences in chemistry, either an atom or molecule with at least one unpaired electron, or a group of atoms, charged or uncharged, that act as a single entity in reaction. ... Robert G. Minor served in the Office of Strategic Services in World War II and was associated with operations in Belgrade. ... In modern usage, a communist party is a political party which promotes communism, the sociopolitical ideology based on Marxism. ... The Daily Worker was a newspaper published by the Communist Party USA, a Comintern affiliated organization in New York, beginning in 1924. ... Harry Gottlieb 1895 - 1993 Harry Gottlieb, painter, screenprinter, lithographer, and educator, was born in Bucharest, Rumania. ... Self portrait of Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photo journalist. ...

Sources

• "The Radical Impulse," Library of Congress digital exhibit

External links

• Ellis, Fred. The case of Sacco and Vanzetti in cartoons from the Daily Worker from Michigan State University Libraries
• Fred Ellis papers, Syracuse University Special Collections Research Center