Harvard Lampoon, School Year Fall 1877 – Spring 1878
For Week Three of Back-to-School Month, we feature half a dozen cartoons from the 1877 to 1878 School Year of the Harvard Lampoon, most of them the work of artist Francis Gilbert Attwood. Several graduates from the Harvard Lampoon — including Attwood — would in a few years after this, found Life magazine, patterned after [...]
Thanksgiving with the Natives
For Thanksgiving Day and Native American Heritage Month, we bring you a few sample images from late nineteenth century comic periodicals. (For prior postings in the Native American Heritage series, click here.) The first two examples are idealized images, depicting peaceful co-existence between European settlers and the indigenous natives. Repeating to these publications’ predominantly white readers, the false myth [...]
Buffalo Bill & Queen Victoria, at Her Golden Jubilee, 1887
Greetings everyone, and Happy Victoria Day! To which all dozen of our American readers are likely going, “Huh?”, but I’m sure our one reader each in Canada, Britain, and Australia, should be pleased that we’ve remembered them (those three are, after all, twenty percent of our audience)! Being American, we naturally have to twist this holiday honoring Queen [...]
