Jacob Burck was a Polish-born Jewish-American painter, sculptor, and award-winning editorial cartoonist. Active in the Communist movement from 1926 as a political cartoonist and muralist, Burck quit the Communist Party after a visit to the Soviet Union in 1936, deeply offended by political demands there to manipulate his work.
Jacob Burck circa 1935 by wife Esther Kriger
"Working Class Bulwark," a cartoon by Burck from The Daily Worker, circa 1934.
"If I Should Die Before I Wake", for which Burck received the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is a regional newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, serving the St. Louis metropolitan area. It is the largest daily newspaper in the metropolitan area by circulation, surpassing the Belleville News-Democrat, Alton Telegraph, and Edwardsville Intelligencer. The publication has received 19 Pulitzer Prizes.
The November 25, 2014 front page of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
St. Louis Post- Dispatch ad in 1918
Former St. Louis Post-Dispatch headquarters