This cartoon won the 1937 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning. Published on April 25, 1936, in the New York Daily News, this political cartoon by Clarence D. Batchelor warned that Europe was heading toward another major war.
It depicts War as a seductive, skeletal woman inviting a young European man inside, reminding him that she knew his father during WW1 (1914โ1918).
At the time, Germanyโs military power was expanding, while tensions across Europe were rising. The cartoon warned that a new generation was being drawn toward the same catastrophe its fathers had experienced.
Just three years later, WW2 began in Europe in September 1939.
