Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 9
For this month’s collection of Good Ol’ Days potpourri, we start above with the “Trials and Tribulations” of kids. Above kid stuff, by Fontaine Fox, and John Campbell Cory, with more kid stuff below, by Fontaine Fox again, and Clare Briggs. Extracted from the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & [...]
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 [...]
Cartoonists at the Republican National Convention: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 1
Above, with art by cartoonist Fred Morgan, the cover of the July 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, depicting a pair of demons emphasizing the discord of the 1912 Republican National Convention in Chicago, giving the Earth a pounding headache. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 12
For today, a potpourri from the June 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, on the wonders of our modern age! (Minus, roughly, a century…) Above, by John T. McCutcheon, The New Neighbors, having their belongings transported by a modern moving van with spoke-wheeled tires, rather than the traditional horse-and-wagon. Note also, the very latest in musical [...]
Death of the G.O.P., 1912 Republican National Convention, Part 4: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0.4
Below & above, the aftermath of the 1912 Republican National Convention, as seen by various cartoonists including William Charles Morris, Oscar Cesare, and Frank Michael Spangler. Having chosen the lesser popular of their candidates (but the one preferable to Wall Street), the G.O.P. Machine is showen marching to “Rule or Ruin”. The full aftermath of [...]
R.I.P. Wilbur Wright, May 30th, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0
Today, on the centennial of the death of aviation pioneer and inventor, Wilbur Wright, we present the cartoons gathered in the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine — collected from various newspapers paying tribute to Wright. Amongst the cartoonists seen here honoring Wilbur Wright, are Cy Hungerford, Billy DeBeck, and William Charles Morris, plus, Raymond [...]
International Affairs: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 23
Closing out our run of the fourth issue of Cartoons Magazine — April 1912 — we have a collection of cartoons covering various foreign affair subjects. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, a set concerning the Panama Canal, which was still under construction, [...]
G.O.P. vs. G.O.P. (1912): Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 17
Looks like we won’t be gettin a centennial re-enactment of what was probably the U.S.’s worst intra-party battle for the Presidential nomination — the 1912 fight that split the Republican Party in two. It would have been fun to watch (for Democrats), but we’ll have to be satisfied to re-live the 1912 Election, via Cartoons [...]
Earth Day: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, May 1912, Part 0.2
Awareness of damage to the environment was rather scant during the Nineteenth Century, so finding any environmental cartoons from this period, is rare. When they are found, it nearly always involves the aftermath/results of some environmental damage caused by Man. Above, from rear cover of the February 28th, 1883 issue of Puck, comes The Lesson [...]
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, [...]
