Bullets & billets
Bullets & Billets is a 1917 New York book of humorous cartoons by Bruce Bairnsfather, a British officer, drawn from the Western Front and aimed at a general readership during the First World War. The pictures are ink and pen sketches of soldiers in mud, billets and trenches, with short captions in quiet, wry tones. A designer might take from them the economical line work, the scruffy everyday detail of wartime life, and the way a single figure carries a joke.
