Vaughn Shoemaker worked for the Chicago Daily News from 1922 to 1952 and twice won the Pulitzer Prize for The Road Back (1938) and Still Racing His Shadow (1947). His famous creation John Q. Public was the American equivalent of Strube’s Little Man. His cartoons were criticised by Herman Goering who described his work as "horrible examples of anti-Nazi propaganda". Shoemaker was a devout Christian, and claimed that he knelt and prayed before starting to draw his daily cartoon. Later in his career, Shoemaker worked for the New York Herald Tribune, the Chicago American and Chicago Today.
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