Content note: Wartime cartoon caricaturing Mussolini, Hitler and a Japanese officer with exaggerated facial features, shown being fried in a pan. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Keep 'Em Frying!
Black-and-white cartoon sheet: a smiling factory worker carries logs marked PRODUCTION to a fire, over which a giant spoon held by a hand in a star-spangled sleeve tips caricatured figures of Mussolini, Hitler and a Japanese officer into a frying pan. Technique: name-calling by caricature of the enemy leaders, with a plain-folks worker as the agent.
Propaganda techniques used in this advertisement
- Date
- 1941
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Philco Corporation (drawn by Sid Hix)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Advertisement
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Persuade or win support
- Themes
- War and the military, Home front
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Philco Corporation. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1177 (NAID 514775).
Text on the object
PRODUCTION DRAWN FOR PHILCO BY [signature: SID HIX] [imprint: Copyright 1941-Philco Corporation] Keep 'Em Frying!
