Little Lefty: Kid Kommunist

As we found with Coulton Waugh’s lost gem Hank, the radical comic her Little Lefty is often mentioned in comics history but rarely read. This mainstay of the Daily work through much of the 1930s deserves more than a footnote. Like Waugh’s Hank, and the later Pinky Rankin by Dick Briefer, Little Lefty was a genuine and sustained attempt to leverage the conventions of the comics genre towards specific political ends. And it was part of a legacy of leftist cartooning that was already decades old.

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