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Eventually, Why Not Now? (Jay N. Darling)

Immediately following the dropping of the atomic bomb in 1945, "Ding" Darling drew this cartoon. Although the cartoon drew little recognition, a few years after Darling's retirement, a nearly identical cartoon by another artist won the Pulitzer Prize.

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We Tried Everything But Dynamite  1948 (Jay N. Darling)

Following World War Two, the world entered the "Cold War." Darling pictured the unsuccessful efforts of the United Nations to lift the "Iron Curtain."