{"id":19,"date":"2007-09-20T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-20T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/you-are-now-entering-hell-welcome\/"},"modified":"2007-09-20T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-20T13:54:00","slug":"you-are-now-entering-hell-welcome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/you-are-now-entering-hell-welcome\/","title":{"rendered":"You Are Now Entering Hell \u2014 Welcome!"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

This post is essentially the gallery of Art Young work which appeared in TCJ #273 a while back, though there are a couple of additions and subtractions. My essay from that issue is here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The image at the top is from Art Young’s Inferno<\/i>, published in 1934. Those below are from Hell Up to Date<\/i>, published in 1892. (My apologies for the slightly wonky formatting throughout; my HTML is rudimentary.)<\/p>\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Dante of Italy<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Inventor of Barb-Wire<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Political Caricaturists<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Dentist’s Terrible Fate<\/p>\n

<\/td>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

frontispiece<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Selfish Husband<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Men Who Tell Fish Stories<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Editors<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr. Satan’s Private Office<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Society Bore<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

He Played the Cornet<\/p>\n

Editors (at left) who take an awful satisfaction in rejcting manuscripts are piled in huge, red-hot iron waste-baskets. Those, also, who sin by swearing falsely to the circulation of their papers are here.<\/p>\n

<\/td>\n

<\/table>\n

The image on the left is from Hell Up To Date<\/i>; that on the right is from Through Hell With Hiprah Hunt<\/i>, published in 1901.<\/p>\n

<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n

The following are from Hiprah Hunt<\/i><\/p>\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\n

Hunt With Devils<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

He Was Too Suspicious<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

A Sports Champ in Hell<\/p>\n

<\/td>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Hunt Welcomed to Hell<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

spot illustration<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Tax Dodgers<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Sheep<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

spot illustration<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Monster Tip System<\/p>\n

<\/td>\n

<\/table>\n

Below are three scapegoat illustrations by Young:<\/p>\n

From Hiprah Hunt<\/i>
<\/a><\/p>\n

Corrupt men in public office, who combined and threw the blame of their guilt on one man are found in this region transformed into wild animals, for the amusement of Satan’s sharpshooting devils. Though they escaped public abuse on earth and prided themselves on not being “found out,” it is different in Hell. Here they are scapegoats themselves, and are hunted and shot by Demons armed with blunderbusses that fire five pounds of salt with one revolution of a wheel trigger.<\/p>\n

From Young’s magazine Good Morning<\/i>, c.1919.
<\/a><\/p>\n

From Art Young’s Inferno<\/i>
<\/a><\/p>\n

You read in the newspapers that some institution or bureau of the government is about to be investigated. There will be startling disclosures \u2014 and the probing will be thorough. These investigations are announced merely to placate the public with promises of a cleaner and better Hell. If one of them proceeds at all, it goes cautiously lest the evidence incriminate the biggest and most respectable Devils of the Interno, and (terrible thought) end in ruining Hell. Sometimes out of the sensational findings, however, there emerges a scapegoat or two, and the public is satisfied.<\/p>\n

The following sources are indicated where known.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\n

Next War, c.1919<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Compulsory Religion, The Masses<\/i> 1912<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

This World of Creepers, Life<\/i> 1907<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

A Slice of the City, c.1920s?<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Joke Is On You, Baby, Daily Call<\/i> 1917<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Postcards From Hell, Good Morning<\/i>, 1919<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Inferiority Complex, Sat. Eve. Post<\/i>, late 1920s<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Superiority Complex, Sat. Eve. Post<\/i>, late 1920s<\/p>\n

<\/td>\n

<\/table>\n

Young on the stock exchange; first from Hell Up to Date<\/i> in 1892:
<\/a><\/p>\n

Then from Art Young’s Inferno<\/i> in 1934
<\/a><\/p>\n

During my first exploration forty years ago, I saw the pits where the Stock Exchange gamblers were punished. As has been pointed out before, the old Inferno showed no favoritism in its treatment of sinners. A few petty gamblers were then punished, but of more consequence were those who gambled on a large scale. The big stock speculators were hurled into suffocating pits where their writhings and shoutings made a tumult that cleft the air with continuous cursings against such a puritanical Hell. Today, not far from the site of these ancient pits is the Hell Stock Exchange and streets where brokerage firms operate. Big gambling is established and approved by the pillars of political and industrial Hell. Only those laws against petty offenders, like those against petty thievery, are now enforced.<\/p>\n

And here are illustrations from the Inferno<\/i>.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\n

Money Bat<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Possession<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Subways<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

No one knows the extent of suffering and affliction…<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

To keep the Hell Fires burning \u2014 get married.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Poverty Chart<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Hospitals<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Senate<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Like a Dog<\/p>\n

<\/td>\n

<\/table>\n\n
<\/a><\/p>\n

The schools are operated…to produce standard-size thought.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Charon<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Cowering<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Graft<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Progress<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Hellions…hunt down their fellow sinners.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The cheerupists…likes to recite poems of optimism….<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Daily Decisions<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bankers<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/table>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

All Hellions leap…while the devils of fear and worry are at their heels.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The River Lethe<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Their ideals and principles abandoned, that they might become true Hellions.<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Idiot Giant War<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

The Once Proud Lucifer<\/p>\n

There are a few more images here<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post is essentially the gallery of Art Young work which appeared in TCJ #273 a while back, though there are a couple of additions and subtractions. My essay from that issue is here. The image at the top is … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-noah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoodedutilitarian.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}