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A sweeping career retrospective, reprinting -- often for the first time in 60 or 70 years -- more than 800 of Young's incendiary cartoons. Art Young was one of the most renowned and incendiary political cartoonists in the first half of the 20th century. And far more -- an illustrator for magazines such as The Saturday Evening Post and Colliers, a magazine publisher, a New York State Senatorial candidate on the Socialist ticket, and perhaps the only cartoonist to be tried under the Espionage Act for sedition. He made his reputation appearing in The Masses on a regular basis using lyrical, vibrant graphics and a deep appreciation of mankind's inherent folly to create powerful political cartoons. To Laugh That We May Not Weep is a sweeping career retrospective, reprinting -- often for the first time in 60 or 70 years -- over 800 of Young's timeless, charming, and devastating cartoons and illustrations, many reproduced from original artwork, to create a fresh new portrait of this towering figure in the worlds of cartooning and politics.