Uncle Sam is an easily recognizable piece of wartime propaganda. And legend says he was based off a real person—though that may not actually be the case.

Ross and Darnall’s Uncle Sam was a particularly dark deconstruction of the original concept. Their take on the character was a vagrant, speaking in sound-bites and haunted by visions of America ...

Books ‘Uncle Sam’ Was Hailed as a Comics Masterpiece, Then Left to Languish. It’s Been Reissued Just in Time for the Election. The 1997 comic, in which a bedraggled Uncle Sam battles for the ...

"I am well aware," said President Kennedy midway through his solemn appeal for a stronger and more flexible U.S. military establishment, "that many American families will bear the ...

Uncle Sam is unrecognizable . Feb. 28, 2025 at 1:25 pm Updated Feb. 28, 2025 at 2:25 pm . By . David Horsey. Seattle Times cartoonist. Uncle Sam, you’ve gotta change with the times.