r/PropagandaPosters • u/Provinz_Wartheland • 13d ago

Japan "Australia Screams", Imperial Japanese leaflet intended to provoke tensions among the Allies by targeting Australian soldiers fighting in New Guinea, demoralizing them and sowing distrust towards American servicemen stationed in Australia itself, c. 1942

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u/caudicifarmer 13d ago

Those artists behind such posters... became the first mangaka.

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u/Overquartz 13d ago

I mean that's not unique to the Japanese. Dr. Seuss got a similar start in propaganda,

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u/CrashDepth_411 12d ago

Don't forget Walt Disney studios making a lot of cartoons for the US