Funeral for Political cartoonist Boris Yefimov in Moscow. Boris Yefimov (September 28, 1899 or 1900– October 1, 2008) was a Soviet and Russian political cartoonist and propaganda artist best known for his political caricatures of Adolf Hitler and other Nazis produced before and during the Second World War, and was the chief artist of the newspaper Izvestia. During his 70 year career he produced more than 70,000 drawings.