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Other. Before I analyse the symbols and stereotypes serving the aims of propaganda
in caricatures, Tables 1 and 2 summarise the number of drawings (see below in the
section Depiction of the Self) and caricatures referring to the two World Wars in
the various publications. Borsszem Janké was the only one of the analysed papers
that published drawings with scenes from the ordinary life of the in-group (Austro¬
Hungarian soldiers on the battlefield, in the hinterland) as well as caricatures.
Table 1. Number of published caricatures and drawings during WWI
Caricatures Drawings Caricatures
Borsszem Janké Borsszem Jankó Kladderadatscb
28 June-31 December,
1914 22 30 156
1915 77 78 373
1916 85 58 355
1917 61 40 363
1918 52 28 343
Total 297 242 1590
Table 2. Number of published caricatures during WWII”
Caricatures Caricatures
Magyarság Kladderadatsch
September to December 1939 9 138
1940 90 505
1941 120 485
1942 59 423
1943 33 371
1944 43 242
Total 354 2164
Following the traditions of the nineteenth century the caricaturists employed
well-known symbols such as the characters of ancient Roman as well as Greek and
German mythology or biblical scenes. Until the end of WWI the style and artistic
design of the caricatures closely followed the artistic methods of the nineteenth cen¬
tury. Magyarsdg featured simpler, line drawn caricatures with easily decodable mes¬
sages. The style of the pictures in Kladderadatsch also changed to some extent from
WWI to WWIL although not fundamentally. The depiction of mythical characters
2 The great difference between the numbers of caricatures can be explained with the fact that Kladdera¬
datsch was published in a longer form than Borsszem Jankó, and in Magyarság, a political newspaper, only
a maximum of one caricature was included per day (and not every day).