General Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
As we approach Election’s end, I’m bringing in pages from the November as well as the October 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, so post-Election, we’ll be free of politics for awhile. Today, pages addressing mostly the non-Presidential level of the 1912 Election. Above, from October 1912, art by William Kemp Starrett, Robert Satterfield, and Cy [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
From Cartoons Magazine issues of 1912, we have Presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson, depicted as either fighting monopolies (in the page from November 1912, below), or, slyly aligned with them (the above page, from October 1912). Art by Billy DeBeck, Robert Carter, Alfred West Brewerton, and Harry Osborn (above); and Jack Wilson, W.A. Ireland, Phil Porter [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
It’s time again for our monthly Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year Good Ol’ Days potpourri, looking back to the September 1912 issue. End of Summer cartoons, above, by Kin Hubbard (creator of Abe Martin) and Ralph Everett Wilder, and below, by Billy DeBeck and others. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons [...]
R.I.P., Salvation Army Founder, William Booth, August 20th, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial
In tribute to Founder of the Salvation Army, General William Booth, April 10th, 1829 to August 20th, 1912. From the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above, to view the cartoons in greater detail. Doug Wheeler Robert Satterfield
NYPD Becker Scandal, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 10 + September 1912 thru January 1913
Above, from the August 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, are cartoons by Charles Bowers and others — concerning corruption in the New York City Police Department in general, inspired by the case of police officer/criminal/convicted murderer Charles Becker (click on his name, to read about his case). Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
Swat That Fly!: Tigwissel Tuesdays #31: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 4
Above, the wrap-around cover from the 1930-published booklet, Health in Pictures, collecting public service comics & cartoons. The government telling people what to do for their health. You know — Socialism! — published during the reign of socialist dictator, uhmm… Herbert Hoover…??? Click on the above picture, to view the cover in more detail. Below, [...]
Panama Canal: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 2
By 1912, it became clear that the American effort to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, was nearing completion after decades of work. With an actual end in sight — albeit two years yet to go — complaints from other shipping powers were already becoming loud, at America’s plans to allow American ships [...]
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 4 + Themes Revue
Above & below, from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, are a couple pages of cartoons on the subject of Women’s Suffrage. Above, American cartoons, including one by Robert Satterfield; beneath, two views from the Italian comic publication, Turin Fischietto. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
Teddy Roosevelt Approaching Chicago, 1912 Republican National Convention, Part 1: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0.1
All this week, our Election Year coverage will focus on the 100th anniversary of the historic 1912 Republican National Convention, requiring a week-long raid into the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Today features the heralded approach of Teddy Roosevelt, to the 1912 Chicago Convention. Above, on his way to Chicago, Roosevelt decided to give [...]
Howard Taft: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 11
It’s our monthly “favorite fat President” time, for the ex-Prez whose best remembered act, was having gotten stuck in the White House bathtub! The above Howard Taft cartoons, concerning his re-election bid, come from the April 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Comic artists of note above, include Robert Satterfield, William Charles Morris, and Robert Minor, [...]
