"When I was in Germany"
When I Was in Germany is a 1919 cartoon booklet printed in Coblenz, Germany by Druckerei Hartman, made by Powter McGinness and bought by bookseller Ray Smith for American soldiers of the occupation. The pictures are loose pen-and-ink cartoons with short speech balloons and captioned panels, drawn in a quick, sketchy hand on tinted paper. A designer could take their compact comic-strip sequencing, dialogue-led panel layouts and the wry slang of doughboy humour.
