By Thomas Derrick. I can’t remember where this appeared, but it wasn’t Punch. Circa 1933. I will try to do a higher-resolution image later, but it is copyright. It should be as iconic as Savile Lumley’s guilt-inducing recruitment poster of 1915 “Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?”, but is unknown.
February 14 2012 at 11:18 am
Giovanni Caselli writes by email:
“David, your grandfather was (is?) a great artist. I am one myself, so I can judge, and very funny too. In Italy there is always a ‘situation’.”
February 14 2012 at 11:29 am
Conscription did not begin until 1916. At that moment, the Lumley poster lost much of its meaning.
February 14 2012 at 12:13 pm
Between 1915 and c 1933 Daddy’s parting shifted from the top to the right. The boy’s outfit did not change.
Thomas Derrick reinvented himself almost overnight in 1931, as a cartoonist, so I am guessing that this confident drawing is from a year or two later, although Manchuria came into the news in ’31.