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
- 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
- Country
- Empire of Japan
- Medium
- Cartoon
- Issuer type
- Media
- Regime
- Showa Japan
- Leader
- Hideki Tojo
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Demonize
- Theme
- War and the military
- Event
- World War II
- Techniques
- Name-calling
- Regime
- Empire of Japan, 1937 to 1945
- Leader
- Hideki Tōjō
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons (scan of Manga, August 1943), 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
[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
[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.
