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110 Ágnes "Tamás 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 (AustroHungarian 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 century. Magyarsdg featured simpler, line drawn caricatures with easily decodable messages. 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 Kladderadatsch 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).
