Art Young, The Masses, December 1912

Today much of the history of American radicalism, including the work of cartoonist Art Young, languishes in obscurity just when it is needed most. But be cheered, along with Michael Mark Cohen’s website, Cartooning Capitalism: Art Young and the Cartoons of American Radicalism, there are now two collections of Young’s work in print, both out from Fantagraphics, To Laugh that We May Not Weep and Art Young’s Inferno.

As we close out the year we present a program that aired near its beginning: Art Against War & Capital: On the Cartoons of Art Young

GUEST

Michael Mark Cohen is an associate teaching professor of American Studies and African American Studies at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of The Conspiracy of Capital: Law, Violence and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly (UMass Press, 2019).

Michael Mark Cohen

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Michael Mark Cohen and Cartooning Capitalism (Interview)

Radical Art: Art Young and the Cartoons of American Socialism by Michael Mark Cohen

Art Young: A Cartoonist for the Ages by Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman

With Gene Debs on the Fourth by John Reed

MUSIC – Irving Berlin

“Top Hat, White Tie and Tails” – Louis Armstrong – Louis Under the Stars (1958)

“Getting Nowhere” – Bing Crosby (1946) – Blue Skies

“Freedom Train” – Peggy Lee and Johnny Mercer (1947)

“Can You Use Any Money Today” – Dinah Shore (1950) – Call Me Madam

“Follow the Crowd” – Irving Berlin (1914)

CREDITS

Producer & Host: Doug Storm

Executive Producer: Kade Young