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Figure 7. http://revista.ieee.es/index.php/ieee 275 Manuel García Ruiz The cartoon, the new weapon of the First World private house painted with “This is not the British Museum” and entitled “The aerial threat”) or their lack of scruples (use of women as shields in a cartoon signed by B. Partridge, “study of a German gentlemen entering into action”, September 1914). This magazine also had a Canadian version that helped to disseminate war propaganda in the North American country. British irony as to German superiority excelled itself in the magazine The Bystander, whose issue of 6 February 1915, entitled A Few Hints for the Enemy, published the names of various fortified coastal towns so that the Germans would not have any problems in finding them. It would be another Briton, Bruce Bairnsfather, whose work was published in The Bystander, who was the most famous illustrator during the Great War. The Bystander was widely circulated amongst troops despite initial resistance from parliament, which described its pictures as “vulgar caricatures of our heroes”, and finally established its popularity. Its characters, in particular the captain Old Bill – a grumpy yet tenacious officer - won over both the troops and the civil population due to their mix of irony and realism together with the people’s will to resist. Their own experience in the trenches is reflected in his comic strips, which show us various Tommies28, dissatisfied but who, like their Old Bill, remain stoic when faced with the constant bombardments. Then during the Second World War, Bairnsfather was assigned as an illustrator for US forces in Europe and published in the armed forces newspaper Stars and Stripes. 28 A popular name used in the war slang to describe rank and file British soldiers.

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