Transcriber’s Note: Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. [Illustration: SKETCH OF THE ARTIST By Himself] WAR CARTOONS BY · JOHN · F. · KNOTT _Cartoonist for the Dallas News_ _Grateful Acknowledgment is made to A. H. Belo & Co., publishers of the Dallas News, for permission to reprint in this book the cartoons that first appeared in the News._ _Copyright 1918 by John F. Knott_ _To C. L. K._ [Illustration: THEY BELIEVED IN PREPAREDNESS] [Illustration: THE PIONEER January 26, 1917] [Illustration: JOHN BULL: “A HARMLESS SUBMARINE? THERE AIN’T NO SUCH ANIMAL!” July 13, 1916] [Illustration: SHADE OF LINCOLN: “I, TOO, HAD A STORMY VOYAGE.” Feb. 12, 1917] [Illustration: THE TEMPTATION March 2, 1917] [Illustration: THE MAD KING OF PRUSSIA March 9, 1917] [Illustration: DISSEMBLING THEIR LOVE. March 31, 1917] [Illustration: PART OF OUR PLAN. April 15, 1917] [Illustration: CONSPIRATORS April 22, 1917] [Illustration: STOPPED AUTOMATICALLY.] [Illustration: “NO INDEMNITY? NO ANNEXATIONS? WHAT DO YOU THINK I STARTED THIS WAR FOR, ANYWAY?” May 8, 1917] [Illustration: PEACE CHESTNUTS May 24, 1917] [Illustration: AMERICANS REALLY OUGHT TO SEE AMERICA FIRST, BUT—— (Many of our best people are going to Europe this summer.)] [Illustration: “NO MORE DOG MEAT, SONNY” July 10, 1917] [Illustration: “NOW WATCH ME DRAW AN ARMY” July 20, 1917] [Illustration: THE GERMAN PITFALL July 27, 1917] [Illustration: BACK TO THE SCENE OF HIS CRIME July 28, 1917] [Illustration: THANK GOODNESS, HE’S THROUGH THE WORST OF IT. July 29, 1917] [Illustration: THE GIRL HE LEFT BEHIND July 31, 1917] [Illustration: A LITTLE DIVERSION FOR THE PEOPLE July —, 1917] [Illustration: ENTER OUR GENIAL TAX ASSESSOR August 31, 1917] [Illustration: DROWNED OUT September 5, 1917] [Illustration: BRE’R RABBIT AND THE TAR BABY September 12, 1917] [Illustration: THEY WANT THE CASE DISMISSED September 23, 1917] [Illustration: EMBARRASSING September 25, 1917] [Illustration: CHANGING HIS SPOTS September 28, 1917] [Illustration: WHO COULD BLAME HIM? October 4, 1917] [Illustration: FIGHT IT WITH FIRE October 24, 1917] [Illustration: THE SUBSTITUTE October 30, 1917] [Illustration: MEATLESS; LIKE THE DOG IN AESOP’S FABLE November 9, 1917] [Illustration: SOME DAY THEY’LL GET TOGETHER November 16, 1917] [Illustration: THE SPIDER AND THE FLY November 22, 1917] [Illustration: “KAMERAD!” November 23, 1917] [Illustration: IVAN THE TERRIBLY SIMPLE November 24, 1917] [Illustration: ITALIAN GRAPES November 30, 1917] [Illustration: ON TO BERLIN December 1, 1917] [Illustration: SIGNS OF A RED CHRISTMAS ON THE WEST FRONT December 12, 1917] [Illustration: OLIVER TWIST HOOVER December 15, 1917] [Illustration: DRAFTED December 28, 1917] [Illustration: THE TWO-HEADED MONSTER December 29, 1917] [Illustration: HE CERTAINLY HAS BEEN GOOD TO HER January 24, 1918] [Illustration: THE ORIGINAL GROUND HOG February 2, 1918]