Sports Referee in Striped Padded West (Colorized)

by qubodup - uploaded on February 8, 2026, 2:23 pm

A sports referee cartoon character wearing a horizontally striped padded west, holding a whistle in his hand and raising his other hand. Confident stable posture, stoic expression, possibly lines on the face indicating being tired/stressed. The illustration is from a soccer (football) an interwar, Republican-era Chinese literary/cultural magazine cover. — Manually traced in Inkscape. Optimized with SVGOMG. Mostly lines, some shapes to add variable thickness in a few spots. Mostly closed except for the head. Background surfaces easily colorable. Black lines, colored surfaces in blue, grey/gray, pink, brown, light blue.

The source is the cartoon on page 11 of https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NLC404-01J000309-6043_%E5%8D%83%E7%A7%8B_1934%E5%B9%B41%E5%8D%B715%E6%9C%9F.pdf — I found the magazine using a random public domain/cc0 Wikimedia Commons image grabber: https://qubodup.github.io/random-WCPD-image/