Yellow Journalism
Most cartoonists followed the lead of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer in promoting war with Spain. Cartoonist Grant Hamilton drew this cartoon for Judge magazine in 1898. It shows a brutish Spain (the “Devil’s Deputy”) with bloody hands trampling on a sailor from the Maine. Cuba is prostrate, and a pile of skulls represents civilians “starved to death by Spain.” Collection of the New-York Historical Society.