Women’s Suffrage, Loves, and Life: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
From the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, above, a set of Women’s Suffrage cartoons, by Fontaine Fox, J.E. Murphy, and Oscar Cesare. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Below, Teddy Roosevelt shown courting the women’s vote (women could vote in the Presidential election [...]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
We kick off our third annual Back-to-School Month cartoons, with pages on that theme, from the September 1912 (above) and October 1912 (all the pages below, except the last) issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Cartoons above & below by [...]
New Fangled Speed Machines: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 14 + September thru November 1912
Today’s posting is New Fangled Speed Machines, starting with the motorcycle daredevil above, in “One of Them”, by Ole May. Below, by John T. McCutcheon and others, aviation was frequently targeted along with the other new means of travel (automobiles, motorcycles) as vehicles of death. Both the above and below cartoons are extracted from the [...]
Summer Heat: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 13 + October 1912
From the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, proof that 100 years ago, it got warm in the Summer! Take that, believers in Global Warming! (P.S. — no need to compare the temperatures involved — these cartoons are “fact” enough! It got hot back then, okay? What do NASA and climate scientists know about planet-wide [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 9
For this month’s collection of Good Ol’ Days potpourri, we start above with the “Trials and Tribulations” of kids. Above kid stuff, by Fontaine Fox, and John Campbell Cory, with more kid stuff below, by Fontaine Fox again, and Clare Briggs. Extracted from the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & [...]
V.P. Candidates: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 7
Above, from the August 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, a page of general politics, and a page on the three Vice Presidential candidates. Artists include Gaar Williams, Fontaine Fox, and William Kemp Starrett. To view the cartoons in detail and read their text, click on the above picture. Doug Wheeler ElectionComics
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 11
We close the July 1912 review of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial Year, with a potpourri of Old Time Toons. Above, Fontaine Fox making fun of the Ice Delivery Man — from a time when daily delivered blocks of ice, was how ice boxes (home refrigerators) “worked”. Below, James H. Donahey and others, on modern romance… Click [...]
Fourth of July Fireworks: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 0.1 + Others
Appropriate for the day, a few cartoons focused on fireworks and their danger. Above, from the Election of 1884, and the July 2nd, 1884 rear cover of Puck magazine, artist Frederick Burr Opper depicts G.O.P. Presidential candidate James G. Blaine as a flashy, rising firework, in He Goes Up Like a Rocket, and He Will [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 12
For today, a potpourri from the June 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, on the wonders of our modern age! (Minus, roughly, a century…) Above, by John T. McCutcheon, The New Neighbors, having their belongings transported by a modern moving van with spoke-wheeled tires, rather than the traditional horse-and-wagon. Note also, the very latest in musical [...]
Taft vs. T.R.: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 8
Next week, our Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year coverage will be dominated by the Republican’s disastrous 1912 Convention — in what still ranks as the largest convention fight in American History. So, in preparation for that, today we feature the final bits of satirized pre-Party Split acrimony between William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt, in Cartoons [...]
