Content note: Cartoon depicting Axis leaders as apes on bombed ruins, one with a bloody knife in its chest; swastika armband shown. This object is shown as it was published. Why
Lookout Monks! Here's Your Plane Warning!
Cartoon poster of two apes on bombed ruins under massed bomber formations: one wears a swastika armband and holstered pistol, the other has round glasses and a bloody knife in its chest. The headline 'Lookout Monks!' and animal depiction of Axis leaders are name-calling; the bombers imply retribution.
Propaganda techniques used in this poster
- Date
- 1942
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Victory-Builders Division of Bressler Editorial Cartoons, Inc. (artist Packer)
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Corporation
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- 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.. National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-978 (NAID 514485).
Text on the object
Lookout Monks! Here's Your PLANE WARNING! [signature: Packer] [imprint: Copyright 1942 by "VICTORY-BUILDERS" Division of BRESSLER EDITORIAL CARTOONS, Inc.]
