About the artist:

Donga was the pen name of the French cartoonist, painter, caricaturist and poster artist Pierre Duffourc. He was born in Bayonne in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France in 1908 as the son of a Spanish father. His early illustrations and caricatures appeared in magazines like Le Cyrano (1932) and Le Rire (1934). He was especially known for his political drawings and his illustrations of the major trials of the time.