The Irish have long been depicted as ape-like brutes in English comics, with these images being infamously denoted as “the Irish monkey.” Although this was a conscious effort to make the Irish seem less than human in comparison with their English counterparts, these animalistic juxtapositions are not unique to one group. In some collections such as Maus, these comparisons are utilized to show power imbalances between the Jewish people and Nazis at the time. In nefarious works, these are used to create an “other,” where artists can create a separation from one group to play on a society’s status quo of the times.