On Ink & Blood: "Of all the books produced by the present war, there is no one more certain to be alive two hundred years from now. Just as we turn back to Hogarth and Goya for the living images of their age, so our descendents willl turn back to Arthur Szyk for the most graphic history of Hitler and Hirohito and Mussolini. Here is the damning essence of what has happened; here is the piercing summary of what men have thought and felt about it."
— Carl Van Doren (1885-1950), American editor and author

On The New Order: "I know of no other instance in which the decorative apparatus of miniature painting has been combined with the onslaught of direct cartooning to produce an instrument of such deadly effectiveness." — Thomas Craven (1889-1969), Author and art critic

The following is an excerpt from a July 20, 1941 article in the Book Review section of The New York Times. The review was on The New Order, a collection of cartoons by Szyk accompanied with an introduction by Roger W. Straus Jr. The book was published as part of G. P. Putnam's Sons Current History series and sold for $1.50.

"Arthur Szyk, famous Polish artist, is well known in Europe and America as an illustrator and also for his work in illumination. In cartoons he continues with ferocious descriptive skill to be an illustrator, and with sad ruthlessness of veracity he subjects the New Order to the illumination of the X-ray. Here is the terrible bestiality of today's aggression, set forth with polished and relentless art...Not with the simplicity of caricature but with a medieval sedulousness of detail, these pictures portray the world's tragedy...the perfection of these remarkable drawings is the artists weapon in humanity's fight."