{"product_id":"the-ruling-clawss-the-socialist-cartoons-of-syd-hoff","title":"The Ruling Clawss: The Socialist Cartoons of Syd Hoff","description":"\u003cp class=\"combined-authors\"\u003eby \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/syd-hoff\"\u003eSyd Hoff\u003c\/a\u003e, introduction by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.nyrb.com\/collections\/philip-nel\"\u003ePhilip Nel\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNYRC\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring his career as a \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e cartoonist, and before he wrote \u003cem\u003eDanny and the Dinosaur\u003c\/em\u003e, Syd Hoff wrote under a different name. He was A. Redfield, a cartoonist for the communist newspaper the \u003cem\u003eDaily Worker\u003c\/em\u003e, and a scourge of the rich and powerful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eScorning what he saw as the complicity and stale jokes of cartooning peers, Hoff set his sights on the ruling class and revealed them for what they were: hilariously inept, deeply selfish, and incredibly dangerous. Hoff spared nothing from his pen, lampooning police brutality, thin-skinned industrialists, racists, and the looming threat of fascism at home and abroad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition of \u003cem\u003eThe Ruling Clawss\u003c\/em\u003e includes a new introduction by the historian Philip Nel, who reveals\u2028 the story behind the rise and disappearance of Hoffʼs Redfield. \u003cem\u003eThe Ruling Clawss\u003c\/em\u003e cements Hoff as a master of the gag comic, whose work remains powerfully funny and troublingly resonant.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PRH","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56289258930342,"sku":null,"price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0614\/7814\/2118\/files\/IMG_70662_e1dfb1ee-6e57-41a9-b818-80b476a30f18.jpg?v=1773429777","url":"https:\/\/partnersandson.com\/products\/the-ruling-clawss-the-socialist-cartoons-of-syd-hoff","provider":"partnersandson","version":"1.0","type":"link"}