Eskrima Kombat

Ralph Cleaver’s third jiujitsu cartoon for The Sketch seems, like #2, to have abandoned the premise of police applications.  Instead, Cleaver imagines how Japanese unarmed combat might be used to compel a recalcitrant husband to purchase jewellery for his skilled (and clearly unscrupulous) wife. By the time this cartoon was published, jiujitsu was, in fact, … Continue reading ““Ju-Jitsu For The Police: Its Possibilities” (#3)”