“Eat” features the Statue of Liberty being shoved down a (yellow) man’s throat. Ungerer would later credit the graphic ferocity of his work to having grown up in Nazi-occupied Alsace. “The irony is, this is a style that I got from Hitler,” he says. “My Vietnam posters, I did them all one day in a total state of anger, one after the other.” (http://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/tomi-ungerers-triumphant-return) "... a poster has to hit you. And this is very interesting because in German the word slogan is translated as a “fist-word,” Schlagwort. Schlag means hitting. So it’s a word that hits. It’s the same with visuals, because even if a poster goes by on a bus, it has to stay in your mind." (https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2015/01/30/all-in-one-an-interview-with-tomi-ungerer/) I have done political posters all my life. I’ve done posters for AIDS, for cancer, against the war, for everything. For... (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/06/tomi-ungerer_n_7000594.html)