March of Medical Science, Part 3: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 38
From issue eight of the Glasgow Looking Glass, September 17th, 1825, we have the third installment of artist William Heath‘s Essay on Modern Medical Education. Click on the above set of pictures, to enlarge it & view its details much better. To view the prior two installments, click here. And here, for previous postings of [...]
Tainted Food: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 37
In this week’s Tigwissel Tuesdays, we look at the dangers of consuming food, pre-F.D.A., as numerous Republican candidates have proudly declared that they would like to dismantle the Food & Drug Administration. As Mitt Romney might inelegantly phrase it when amongst his friends, Americans are too lazy to take responsibility for their own lives and [...]
Mobile Communications circa 1912: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 36 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial
For this week’s Tigwissel Tuesdays, we present an idea for mobile communications from artist Richard Keith Culver. Reprinted in the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, a month or two after its initial publication in the Los Angeles Express. Click on the above cartoon, to enlarge & view it in greater detail. Doug Wheeler ElectionComics
Living Truths of Nature, 1890: Tigwissel Tuesdays #35
Last week, during the Anti-Science Party’s (G.O.P.’s) National Convention, we ran anti-Darwin cartoons for our Tigwissel Tuesdays entry. This week, to clean the taste of that dirty deed from our mouths, we have Puck Presents Archdeacon Farrar’s New Year’s Hint — A Needed Course of Instruction for Our Religious Instructors. Click on the above cartoon, [...]
Charles Darwin: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 34
I’ve been avoiding running these particular cartoons within Tigwissel Tuesdays‘s general mandate of reviewing comics parodying science, but given that the Anti-Science Party (also known as Republicans) is holding its national convention this week, I felt what better time to honor the G.O.P.’s 19th Century ideas, than with cartoons from the 19th Century making fun [...]
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 [...]
Polar Exploration: Tigwissel Tuesdays #33
This week for Tigwissel Tuesdays, we touch again on Polar Exploration — the goal of reaching either pole being the 19th Century’s (and before) equivalent of landing on the Moon. Above, by artist William Heath, from the November 14th, 1825 tenth issue of Glasgow Looking Glass, we find Jack Frost consuming ships engaged in a [...]
Glasgow Looking Glass/March of Medical Science, Part 2: Tigwissel Tuesdays #32
Today’s cartoons on modern science, come from the September 3rd, 1825 issue 7, of the Glasgow Looking Glass, serializing artist William Heath‘s Essay on Modern Medical Education. Above, the second serialized part; below, the earlier shown first serialized part, from issue 6, August 18th, 1825. Click on the above & below cartoon sequences, to enlarge [...]
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, [...]
Mr. Golightly’s Steam Riding Rocket, c1840s: Tigwissel Tuesdays #30
Above, The Flight of Intellect. Portrait of Mr. Golightly experimenting on Messrs Quick and Speeds’ new patent high pressure Steam Riding Rocket. By artist George Edward Madeley, and published by Charles Tilt, most sources estimate this cartoon to have originally been published circa 1830. Some web sources, though — such as the blog site Voyages [...]
