Browse Items (44 total)

Travin, V., Detailed Agenda, Rutgers & Continuum, 1971

"Poet: Kapralova, V. (The poem is omitted)
“The Fighting Pencil” group, 1971
Text on the scroll (from bottom up):
“To:
27. Further raise the…

Tags: Art, Brezhnev, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Satire, Soviet Union, Stagnation

Travin, V., Orders, Rutgers, Continuum, 1981

"Poet: Yefimovski, Y.

He gave orders, many a task,
“Work harder!”—he was bellowing.
But he never left his desk
To check if team was…

Tags: Art, Authoritarian, Authoritarianism, Autocracy, Cartoons, Satire, Soviet Union

Travin, V., Everything's according to plan, Rutgers, None

"Poet: Yefimovsky, Y. “The Fighting Pencil” group
The boss was curt and unrefined.
—Finish the bridge by the deadline.
—The crane is down? Not…

Tags: Art, Bridge, Cartoons, Irony, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Travin, V., Pigsty, Rutgers, None

"Poet: Yefimovsky, Y. “The Fighting Pencil” group
—Move the cattle operation,
Build a hog pen in this site!
New boss, new consideration.
—He is…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Change, Decision-Making, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Travin, V., Why are you luring my people away from me, Rutgers, 1973

"Poet: Shkliarinsky, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1973

The people choose to work in those places
That have well-organized and clean…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Fighting Pencil, Labor Safety, Safety, Satire, Soviet Union

Sychev, I., ...But the booze was in the mouth..., Rutgers, 1984

The vain crow, a forest ranger, has been outwitted by the fox. This time he gives the crow a bottle of vodka and makes off with the trees that she is…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Corruption, Crow, Environment, Satire, Vodka

Shcheglov, Y., Young man, why did you choose this particular college? Dad, don't ask stupid questions!, Rutgers, 1983

Nepotism abounds.

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Nepotism, Satire

Semenov, B. - First photo; Belomlinsky, M. - Second photo, Cantata in honor of inflated staff, Rutgers, 1959

"First photo: Poets: Tolmachev, D., and M. Romanov “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1959
They play their abaci like some virtuoso,
With pay raises,…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Expenses, Inflated Staff, Redundant Staff, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Semenov, B., They raised a newbreed of chicken, Rutgers, 1970

"Poet: Smirnovsky, S. “The Fighting Pencil” group
They have raised long-legged chicken
That can walk this muddy trail.
They would rather do the…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Chicken, Futility, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Semenov, B., Well? Has the commission left?, Rutgers, 1964

"“The Fighting Pencil” group, 1964

“A cement plant is situated two miles away from the town of Sukhoi
Log, Sverdlovsk region. The area around it…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Cement, Cement Plant, Pollution, Satire, The Fighting Pencil