Jacob
Burck was
born in 1904. Employed as a cartoonist on the radical Daily
Worker, Burck gave support to Franklin
D. Roosevelt and the New Deal. He
moved to the Chicago Times and
in 1942 won the Pulitzer Prize for his
cartoon, If I Should Die before I Wake.
In the 1950s Burck was investigated by Joseph
McCarthy. and the House Un-American Activities Committee but charges
against him were eventually dropped. In the 1960s he worked on the
Chicago Sunday Times where he
worked with another radical cartoonist, Bill
Mauldin.
Jacob Burck, Chicago Times (May, 1942)
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