Fitzpatrick, Daniel Robert (1891 - 1969)

Daniel Fitzpatrick original cartoon artwork.

After attending Chicago Art Institute, Daniel Fitzpatrick worked as a cartoonist for the Chicago Daily News and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Fitzpatrick drew with a grease crayon. His work was never funny but as he admitted, the main purpose of his art was to express "sympathy for the underdog." During the 1930s, Fitzpatrick was one of the first American cartoonists to warn of the dangers of Fascism in Europe. Stephen Hess argued that Fitzpatrick played a significant role in changing American public opinion on Nazi Germany: "Fitzpatrick, one of the masters in the use of symbolism, transformed Nazi Germany's swastika into a horrific death machine. As Hitler's armies marched across Europe, he used his symbol repeatedly to challenge America to rethink their isolationist stand and enter the war against Germany. He retired in 1958 and was replaced on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch by another radical cartoonist, Bill Mauldin.

I Feel Like One, Who Treads Alone Some Banquet-Hall Deserted, Whose Lights are Fled, Whose Garlands Dead And All But He Departed - Thomas Moore