Uncle Sam and John Bull

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

So everybody knows about Uncle Sam and John Bull, the original national personifications of the U.S. and Britain, that appeared in political cartoons and art waaay back in the day?

I'm not sure if these sorts of things have been posted elsewhere already, but I figured this was pretty relevant to US X UK so I decided to show a few that I've found which have amused me XD!

Preview:



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v620/ranmaremix/szyk3.jpg

This one is depicting a 'what if' Germany wins scenario. Sam and Bull are prisoners chained together.




They can't fight, they're too tied together! 'sup bondage?



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v620/ranmaremix/britannia.jpg

This one is one of the easier ones to find. I love how they've got the bald eagle (looks sort of like a sea gull) and the lion.



US is beating him. LOL, sorry I just found this one hilarious.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v620/ranmaremix/uncle-sam-john-bull-poster.jpg

This is my personal favourite! Not only do we get to see Uncle Sam and John Bull holding hands and staring lovingly at each other (o_O!) but their female counterparts of Columbia and Britannia are in the background doing the same thing!


Edit!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v620/ranmaremix/sambullusuk.jpg

Kind of busted, but I tried X_X


All these historical drawings I found from a great website called Son of the South!

Comments

[shourii.livejournal.com]

aaahh I love these caricatures. I always get a GREAT URGE to make a hetalia version out of them
maybe I should try once

I love the one where they're tied up together, now that's arthur's usual expression

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

Hahaha I know, right! Oh if only Uncle Sam didn't wear such godawful pants!

[szeras.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting those!
Bull&Sam never cease to amuse me :'3 Haven't seen the last picture before - it's lovely! *saves*

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

YEAH I was so shocked at them not being antaganistic itowards each other in the art for once!

[haro.livejournal.com]

Haha wow, these are great! This is such a creative and fun post. I'm really glad you made it. XD

It would be amazing to see some of these poses turned into US/UK fanart. The last one is FANTASTIC. US/UK wedding, y/y? I guess their genderswitched!versions are at it in the background. :)

I do remember Hidekaz saying that England's thick eyebrows are representative of his 'John Bull' soul.

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

A UNION, FORALL TIME.

I totally agree about the fanart business *shifty eye*.

[bejiitto.livejournal.com]

Good god! thank you for this unique post, XD i /definitely/ LOL'd outloud at all of them (though i have to agree, the last one IS an absolute winner). I would also die for any artist of any calibre to recreate some of these Al/Arthur style, oh yes, <3.

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

They are just begging to be recreated. Somebody do this!!!

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

OK I tried... kind of busted though oh well

[bejiitto.livejournal.com]

OHMYDEARLORD'BUSTED'DON'TYOUEVERCALLANYTHINGPRODUCEDFROMYOURWONDERFULARTSKILLSANYLESSTHAN'AMAZING'OR'BEAUTIFUL'EVERAGAIN!!!

AAAHHH! No seriously! Wow! Yay! Aaah! Oh this is wonderful! Aaahh -savingsavingsaving- thank you so much <3!!! This is... Ah, i'm so happy. Hah, you made my night, thank you!

... God i could adore and LOL at this for ages...

(Now you're the one filling ME with zenkai pawaa~!)

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

UGHH LOL those PANTS. I hate them XD;... hahhah fuck yehh DragonBaaall

[azureobsidian.livejournal.com]

*squeak* Lovely! And Epic! XD

And I never tire of Arthur in red, he wears it so well.

[lumos.livejournal.com]

xD! These were all awesome, the racing one is my favorite. Someone totally needs to turn these into fanart.

Guh, now I feel like finding that one WW2 cartoon where Bull and Sam are in bed together and Stalin falls in from the ceiling; I remember seeing it in my textbook somewhere xD

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

I heard about that one, actually that's what prompted me to go searching these things in the first place. I just tried and came up with this hilarious art though XD

[haro.livejournal.com]

Ohmygoooooood.

The truth is that US and UK have ALWAYS been totally gay for each other. Hetalia just reinforced that. And made it quite a bit prettier.

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

LMAO isn't that one too perfect? Russia looming in the window!!
BRB wasting my life searching out 19th and early 20th century political cartoons now u_u!

[embish.livejournal.com]

Yes! I have that one in my text book too! It's basically my favorite. I remember my history teacher making a comment like, "Well, I don't know why they're in BED together.." and me thinking, "<3 Its love, of course!"

[kanami-yuuta.livejournal.com]

L M A OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

OMG sorry I had to post this, it made me laugh

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

—From The Bystander, London.

BROTHER JONATHAN (Predecessor of Uncle Sam): "In spite 'f my noo-trality, John, d'ye notice how 'ffectionate I am?—how I sympathise with yer?"

JOHN BULL: "M—m'yes, that's all right, but I should like it better just now if you'd leave my hands a bit freer to fight those rascals as they deserve!"

reposted from here (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15479/15479-h/15479-h.htm)

Re: OMG sorry I had to post this, it made me laugh

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

aw damnit Gutenberg! Well basically it was an image of America groping England (in a navy sailor outfit), who wishes America had picked a better time so he could fight more freely.

[azureobsidian.livejournal.com]

Ah, US/UK ship. We're historic. XDDD

I loved these, thanks for posting them.

[sasha2999.livejournal.com]

Wow this is a really interesting post. LOL the last one is brilliant. Thanks for this! <3

[haro.livejournal.com]

OMG YOU FANARTED IT. I totally am going to have to icon this. x.x They look so... loving.

You should maybe include it in your next art post because I bet a lot of people missed it? I almost did. Haha.

I have to say the pants don't look quite as bad on America as they do in the original image.

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

Oh lol I don't really care if people miss my stuff, only if it gets reported and taken down *intense rage*!@ Anyway it will probably be a while for me to do fanart, I am keeping myself open to do a lot for the fic-and-art-athon!

[haro.livejournal.com]

Ugh. On deviantart? How can they take it down when both of the characters are MORE than of legal age in canon. I mean even if you go by their 'human ages,' America is nineteen and England is twenty-three. Wtf. *has dislike of devart*

And yay for fic/art-athon.

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

Oh sometimes it just matters if they 'look' too young. Geezus some people can't help having a cute style. I'm on the black list there anyway because I got into a fight with them, so I'm under extra monitoring. Grr. People used to troll my photobucket too, but I've stopped using photobucket to host the XXX stuff.

F***K, I could rant all day on that though.

[haro.livejournal.com]

I honestly don't think you make them look underage. They look pretty adult in your art. Devart's policies are fail. :(

I have another friend who got into a pretty big brawl with devart and then one of the people on staff basically accused her of being a pedo (she was drawing characters in very mildly sexual situations who were 15+). Ugggghhhh.

[takadainmate.livejournal.com]

The hand holding! Oh the hand holding! I think this was the best start to a day EVAH. US/UK have been shipped FOREVER! (And the tie reading "mutual needs" from the first picture had me laughing quite inappropriately loudly at work. XD) Thanks for sharing!

[left-tool.livejournal.com]

THIS.

Is so amusingly fun to read ahah oh god kjhsdalj ilu for this and also you fanarting in Alfred and Arthur! @A@ ♥♥♥

[socialholic.livejournal.com]

Oh god, these are so great! x---D So FTW.

AND OH GOD THAT FANART ;;;u;;; T-that's just too adroable! I can die happy now <3 ! Their expressions are just too... TOO LOVING ;;;u;;; Aaah I love it ! And those pants definitely suit Alfred better than Uncle Sam :'----D.

Oh! I just saw that 'side by side~ Britannia' poster thing in one book I browsed in a bookshop last week - it had a lot of old posters from the World War times - and I already then wanted to draw a Hetalia version of it 8DD now I want even more when I saw your great version of one of those posters! And that poster where they're tied together -- aaaah I just SO can imagine that >>u<< ! Maybe I should try drawing them some time... (or at least someone's should! 8D)

These are so funny, thanks a lot for posting them :'DD. AND especially thanks for that lovely fanart ;;;u;;; !

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

Draw it!!! Especially the tied up one! I can imagine it too, you know they'd be trying not to look at each other and blushing because they're so entangled. fwahahahaahaaaaa

[junez-chan.livejournal.com]

These are really awesome!!!! Thanks a bunch!! I love you!! ><


"looks sort of like a sea gull" <= LOL
So true! XD
I really love that because of the animal representing the Nations ^^. And I mean, I love all actually!.

[nike2422.livejournal.com]

This thread finally made me join this community.

I really see Hetalia as a modern version of the old style political cartoon. The 18th and 19th centuries are the best.

My favorite WW2 cartoons were drawn by none other than Dr Seuss!



You can see the rest here: http://orpheus.ucsd.edu/speccoll/dspolitic/

[technoranma.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the community!! Oh man, I know, political cartoons have always interested me. Now they're even funnier because of the Hetalia context XD! WOW I don't think I'd ever seen Dr. Seuss' before! LOL Britain is looking pretty damn smug there.

These things are so interesting.. *goes to peruse*

[embish.livejournal.com]

I just love the complete lack of subtlety in this one.

http://s74.photobucket.com/albums/i253/venusiandarling/?action=view¤t=vc85c.jpg

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