Why Not Let Them Have It All?: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #98
Today, appropriate to this week’s Republican National Convention, with a born-into-riches millionaire Wall Streeter as the G.O.P. Presidential nominee, calling for still more tax breaks for most wealthy, paid for on the backs of everyone else, we have the Frederick Burr Opper cartoon, Let Them Have It All, and Be Done With It!. Appearing in [...]
Jay Gould’s Private Bowling Alley: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #95
< Above, from the front cover of the March 29th, 1882 issue of Puck magazine, infamous monopolist & stock market manipulator, Jay Gould, using Wall Street as Jay Gould’s Private Bowling Alley. In this cartoon by Frederick Burr Opper, we see Gould using his bowling balls, labeled “Trickery”, “False Reports”, “Private Press”, and “General Unscrupulousness”, [...]
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 [...]
Non-Tattooed Blaine…
Above & below, a couple of non-Tattooed cartoons on James G. Blaine, from the 1884 Election & Puck magazine. Blaine was the highly corrupt former Speaker of the House, whose moral failings plus arrogance, blew it for the Republicans in 1884. Delusionally self-important Newt Gingrich, is today following in Blaine’s dirty footsteps. Above, a Frederick [...]
Let the Show Go On!
With March, we now roll Women’s History Month. In the past several weeks, we’ve been hilighting the 1884 Republican Presidential candidate, J.G. Blaine; and also, seen the man regarded as the clown of the 1884 election (depicted above, literally, as a clown), Benjamin Butler. In the above September 17th, 1884 front cover cartoon — Now [...]
A Valentine’s Joke Book, 1912 & 1852
For this year’s Valentine’s Day, we first have from 1912, A Valentine Joke Book — part of the weekly 1911-1912 Sunday American Joke Book series. These were newspaper supplements, bound as newsprint magazines, inside the Boston American and N.Y. American newspapers. (Other cities might also have done these — I do not know; due to [...]
The Napoleon of Wall Street, 1885: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 78
Above, from the front cover of the October 21st, 1885 issue of Puck magazine — The “Little Napoleon of Wall Street” in Exile, by Frederick Burr Opper. Subtitled, The Friends of His “Flush” Days Don’t Care to Know Him Now, it depicts stock broker Ferdinand Ward, of the failed brokerage house Grant & Ward. Ward’s [...]
Pied Piper of the Republican Party, 1884 — The Children Refuse to be Charmed
With Newt Gingrich remaining in the current Republican primaries for minimally another month — and possibly much longer — we have an opportunity to start into the “Tattooed Man” series of cartoons, that parodied Newt’s 1884 equivalent, James G. Blaine. The above cartoon by artist Frederick Burr Opper, appeared on the rear cover of the [...]
The Bogus Workingman & The Grand Old Republican Party of Moral Ideas, 1884
Today being the Florida Primary, I’ve picked two Puck magazine front cover cartoons by artist Frederick Burr Opper, one each representative of the current two G.O.P front-runners. Which cartoon I feel matches which current candidate, is so obvious, I need not specify. Above (and unfortunately including a racist caricature which is not really part of [...]
Why Do They Do It?, 1888
Above, detail from the rear cover cartoon of the September 19th, 1888 issue of Puck magazine. In this section close-up, we see the prior election’s (1884′s) Republican nominee for President, James G. Blaine — the Victorian Age’s equivalent of Newt Gingrich in corruption and scandal — leading a bound (by monopoly interests) Republican Party by [...]
