Browse Items (14 total)

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

Kunnap, V., The Paper "STREAM", Rutgers, 1960

"Poet: Suslov, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1960

Look! This is the method of a conveyer belt,
But it seems to resemble more of a red…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Economy, Khrushchev, Ministerial, Satire, Sovnarkhoz, The Fighting Pencil

Rabinovich, Y. - First photo; Tsvetkov, A. - Second photo, The Guide!, Rutgers, Chatham House, & Harcourt Brace, 1969 - first photo; 1965 - second photo

First photo: In this cartoon we see a Mertonian bureaucratic personality emerge as a result of overemphasizing the importance of rules in sustaining…

Tags: Art, Bureaucracy, Cartoons, Organizations, Rules, 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

Kunnap, V., The case of pipe supply being a pipe dream, Rutgers, 1975

"Poet: Smirnovsky, S. The Fighting pencil” group, 1979

Memos, notices alone
Never get things done but stall.
And the pipeline, as we…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Inefficiency, Pipeline, Satire, The Fighting Pencil

Belomlinsky, M., Our department is ahead again!, Rutgers, 1981

"Poet: Yefimovsky, Y. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1981

This road has just been completed,
But it won’t stay smooth for long.
For as the…

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

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

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

Kovenchuk, G., And you say, go swimming!, Rutgers, 1978

"Poet: Kapralova, V. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1978

A solution that can be applied
To this river’s apparent plight
Is to post signs…

Tags: Art, Cartoons, Pollution, Satire, Swimming, The Fighting Pencil

Cherepanov, Y. - First photo; Kunnap, V. - Second photo, Good luck!, Rutgers, Continuum, Free Press, 1965 - first photo; 1967 - second photo

"Poet: Shkliarinsky, A. “The Fighting Pencil” group, 1967
Young chickens better quit the squeak,
stop calling for attention:
New boss, the Fox, has…

Tags: Art, Nomenklatura, Party, Satire, Soviet Union, The Fighting Pencil