“Red Haggis”: A Depression-Era Comic Strip in the Young Worker

Resource type
Author/contributor
Title
“Red Haggis”: A Depression-Era Comic Strip in the Young Worker
Abstract
Introduces and reprints the "Red Haggis" comic strip that ran in 1934 in the Young Worker, the weekly publication of the Young Communist League of Canada. The strip's hero, Red Haggis, is depicted as a pugnacious amalgam of Popeye and "the hard man" of the Scottish working-class tradition. The artist - signed as "Crawford" in the strip - has not been definitively identified.
Publication
Labour / Le Travail
Date
Spring 2025
Volume
95
Pages
241-256
Citation Key
vanceRedHaggisDepressionEra2025
Accessed
5/21/25, 9:28 PM
ISSN
1911-4842
Language
English
Notes

Abstract by Desmond Maley.

Citation
Vance, M. E. (2025). “Red Haggis”: A Depression-Era Comic Strip in the Young Worker. Labour / Le Travail, 95, 241–256. https://doi.org/10.52975/llt.2025v95.012