The Dollar or the Man?, Part 10: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons # 92
Above, the cover from Homer Davenport‘s 1900 cartoon collection, The Dollar or the Man?. Depicted are Uncle Sam and the common people, engaged in a tug-of-war against Republican National Chairman & Corporate Stooge, Mark Hanna (shown wearing a coat made of “$”-signs), and a the giant, brutish goliaths that Davenport typically used to symbolize the [...]
Who Should vs. Who Does Pay the Taxes: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 69
This week, as everyone should have expected from the start, the Congressional “Super Legion”… uh, “Injustice League”… er… “Committee“(??), came to zero agreement. Click on any of the pictures above and below, to view enlarged versions. Above, The End of a Bad Show, depicting the workings of the “Grand National Congressional Theatre”. Puck magazine’s mascot [...]
Episode 6: C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 55
The March 17, 1882 front page of New York City’s Daily Graphic newspaper, featured artist Charles Jay Taylor’s sixth sequential comic strip with railroad baron and stock market manipulator William H. Vanderbilt. In this outing, Vanderbilt, shown wearing a sunflower and gone Aesthetic (per the Aesthetic Art Movement of the day) is holding a reception in his home, to show [...]
April 15th…
Some things never change. We might view these old cartoons from a different perspective, but they still deliver their message. Click on any picture, to see an enlarged version. Still Working at It? Puzzling It Out by Hy Gage Philadelphia Press, April, 1914 Them Poor Rich Folk. A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned by Richard [...]
