"Untitled"
Tony
Auth’s political cartoon was originally published in the Netherlands and was
eventually reprinted for the the Philadelphia Inquirer. The main subjects in
Auth’s illustration are President George H. W. Bush and the Cold War, which was
in its final stages when the cartoon was published. The cartoon
depicts an army man with a gun sitting on a chair that when translated from
Dutch into English, reads “Cold War.” The man in the cartoon is meant to symbolize a nervous President
Bush, holding a large umbrella over the soldier in an attempt to shade him from
the sun. I believe this is Auth’s way of
showing how the U.S. appeared to be ‘sucking up’ to the Cold War, doing whatever
it can to be seen as the “nice guy” throughout
the world.