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Dr Alfred W. McCoy is professor of SE Asian History at the U. of Wisconsin at Madison

where he also serves as director of the Centre for SE Asian Studies.He's spent the past quarter-
century writing about the politics & history of the opium trade.He studied Southeast Asian
history at Yale University. In 1971 he was commissioned to write a book on the opium trade in
Laos. During his research he discovered that the French equivalent of the Central Intelligence
Agency (SDECE), financed all their covert operations from the control of the Indochina drug
trade. McCoy also found evidence that after the United States replaced the French in Southeast
Asia, the CIA also became involved in this trade. As he later pointed out: "Their mission was to
stop communism and in pursuit of that mission they would ally with anyone and do anything to
fight communism."Alfred W. McCoy, who is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-
Madison, has spent the past thirty years writing about Southeast Asian history and politics. His
publications include Philippine Cartoons (1985).

The caricatures of the famous personalities of the era made it a very controversial
magazine. According to art historians, this early Lipang Kalabaw caricatures were drawn by Jorge
Pineda. The magazine folded in 1909, as a result of pressure from the government.1922, Santos
revived the magazine, calling it BAGONG LIPANG KALABAW and with the byline “Gamot sa
Magagalitin at sa Nalulungkot”, a possible attempt by Santos not to let the ghost of the first
Lipang Kalabaw haunt the new one. It may also be a ploy to hide the true intent of the
magazine: to once again attack the bureaucracy. The magazine contained the popular comic
strip Ganito Pala sa Maynila, written by Santos and illustrated by Amorsolo. The comic strip was
the second to have been published in the Philippines, the first being Kiko at Angge published in
sister magazine Telembang a few months ahead. In 1924, Bagong Lipang Kalabaw was closed
down due to a libel suit filed against it in relation to the Philippine National Bank scandal.In
1947, Lipang Kalabaw was once again resurrected, albeit briefly. Sadly, this Lipang Kalabaw
series lacked the humor of the original series. It also lacked the artists who made the Lipang
Kalabaw one of the best illustrated weeklies in the Philippines.

Professor Alfred William McCoy, after Ph.D. graduation, spends most of his time
contributing to the in-depth research in wide varieties of publications related to the Philippines’
social history and politics together with the heroin trafficking in Southeast Asia, South Asia, and
the entire world. Due to his first and famous publication in 1972.Philippine political cartoons
gained full expression during the American era. Filipino artists recorded national attitudes
toward the coming of the Americans as well as the changing mores and times. While the 377
cartoons compiled in this book speak for themselves, historian Alfred McCoy’s extensive
research in Philippine and American archives provides a comprehensive background not only to
the cartoons but to the turbulent period as well.

References :

Websites:

Mccoy,A.W. (n.d) Philippine Cartoon:Political Caricature of the American era, 1900-41 .Retrieved
from http://www.coursehero.com/file/21083094/Political-Caricature-of-the-American-era/

Simkin, J.M.(1997, September 15).

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https://spartacus-educational.com/JFKmccoyA.htm

Komik Strip(2011). Retrieved from http://komikstrip.blogspot.com/?m=1

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