Content note: Cartoon depicting Axis leaders as apes, one with a bloodied knife, as printed. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Keep Punchin'!
Colour cartoon in which bombs and shells with clenched fists for noses fall on three apes in the uniforms of the Axis leaders. One wears a swastika armband, one a plumed hat, one a Japanese-style cap; one holds a bloodied knife. Enemy leaders are drawn as animals, a name-calling image, under the slogan 'Keep Punchin'!'.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders Division of Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (cartoon signed Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- 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)
Victory-Builders Division of Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (cartoon signed Packer). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-1203 (NAID 514809).
Text on the object
KEEP PUNCHIN'! [signature: Packer] Copyright 1942 by "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division of BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc.
