--- title: 'Cover of the Japanese magazine Manga (漫画), August 1943: caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt' url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/manga-magazine-roosevelt-cover-1943/ description: 'Colour magazine cover: a large head-and-shoulders caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt, labelled in katakana ''Roosevelt'', on a blue ground beside the red…' section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![Cover of the Japanese magazine Manga (漫画), August 1943: caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/manga-magazine-roosevelt-cover-1943.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/manga-magazine-roosevelt-cover-1943.jpg) # Cover of the Japanese magazine Manga (漫画), August 1943: caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt Colour magazine cover: a large head-and-shoulders caricature of Franklin D. Roosevelt, labelled in katakana 'Roosevelt', on a blue ground beside the red block-letter title 漫画. His face is drawn flushed and heavy-jawed, with knitted brows, one visible buck tooth and a bead of sweat, and he wears headphones with two rod antennae. The tell of name-calling is the drawing itself: exaggerated features and a nervous sweat drop do the insulting, with no argument on the cover. - **Date:** August 1, 1943 - **Period:** [Second World War](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#era=wwii) - **Made by:** Manga-sha (漫画社), Tokyo, publisher of the monthly Manga (masthead line 眼で見る時局雑誌, 'a current-affairs magazine to be seen') - **Region:** [East Asia](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#region=east-asia) - **Country:** [Empire of Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#country=empire-of-japan) - **Medium:** [Cartoon](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#medium=cartoon) - **Issuer type:** [Media](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#actor=media) - **Regime:** [Showa Japan](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#regime=showa-japan) - **Leader:** [Hideki Tojo](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#leader=hideki-tojo) - **Audience:** [Domestic public](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#audience=domestic-public) - **Purpose:** [Demonize](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#purpose=demonize) - **Theme:** [War and the military](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#theme=war-military) - **Event:** [World War II](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/#event=world-war-ii) - **Techniques:** [Name-calling](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/name-calling/) - **Regime:** [Empire of Japan, 1937 to 1945](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/) - **Leader:** [Hideki Tōjō](https://propagandaarchive.org/regimes/showa-japan/#hideki-tojo) - **Source:** Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are - **Source:** [Wikimedia Commons (scan of Manga, August 1943)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Japanese_caricature_of_Franklin_Roosevelt_on_the_cover_of_Manga,_August_1943.jpg), retrieved September 29, 2026 - **Rights:** Public domain (Commons PD-Japan-organization, PD-1996; uncredited 1943 magazine cover) Cover of Manga (漫画), vol. 11 no. 8, Tokyo, 1 August 1943; via Wikimedia Commons ## Text on the object Original (Japanese) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` [large red title, vertical] 漫画 [katakana label beside the face, vertical] ルーズヴェルト [bottom, right to left] 眼で見る時局雑誌　八月號 [bottom left] 30セン [colophon, top right, vertical] 昭和十四年二月九日第三種郵便物認可（毎月一回一日發行） 昭和十八年七月廿八日印刷納本　昭和十八年八月一日發行 第十一卷　第八號 ``` English translation (machine translation by Claude, not verified by a fluent reader) ``` [title] Manga (Cartoons) [label] Roosevelt [bottom] A current-affairs magazine to be seen with the eyes. August issue. [price] 30 sen [colophon] Approved as third-class postal matter on 9 February Showa 14 [1939] (issued monthly on the 1st). Printed and deposited 28 July Showa 18 [1943]; issued 1 August Showa 18 [1943]. Volume 11, No. 8. ``` Read from the 1280 px image with enlarged crops. The small colophon is printed in tiny type on a textured blue ground and its dates are read with moderate confidence; the form of the volume character (卷 or 巻) is not certain at this size, and the Commons description gives 第11卷第8號. 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