1881-82 Comic Strips featuring William Vanderbilt, Episode 5: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 47
In the years 1881 and 1882, artist Charles Jay Taylor created a series of approximately one dozen sequential comic strips featuring monopolist and stock market manipulator, William H. Vanderbilt. These appeared on the front page of the New York City’s Daily Graphic newspaper, usually with a gap of months between each stand-alone episode. To find the prior episodes, click here. [...]
C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 Comic Strips starring William Vanderbilt, Episode 4: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 42
In Episode Four artist Charles Jay Taylor penchance again turns a newspaper interview with William H. Vanderbilt, into sequential comic strips, wherein the visuals question the veracity of what Vanderbilt has said – and raise why the reporter wasn’t tougher in his interrogation of Vanderbilt. (No, this isn’t what Taylor did in all the episodes — he moves away [...]
C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 Comic Strips starring William Vanderbilt, Episode 3: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 41
Between 1881 and 1882, artist Charles Jay Taylor created approximately a dozen sequential comic strips, starring stock market manipulator / railroad monopolist William H. Vanderbilt. To find the prior episodes, click here. Today’s outing – The Substance of Things Hoped For — The Evidence of Things Not Seen. In this episode, Vanderbilt and his organization are attempting to manipulate [...]
C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips, Episode 2: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 38
Today we present, Episode Two of artist Charles Jay Taylor’s 1881-82 sequential comic strips featuring the notorious Wall Street manipulator and railroad monopolist, William H. Vanderbilt. Today’s episode, titled Mr. Vanderbilt Has Returned from Europe, appeared on the front page of the June 3, 1881 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic. Like Episode One, this [...]
C.J. Taylor’s William Vanderbilt Comic Strips, 1881-82, Episode 1: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 37
Below, the March 11, 1881 cover page of the (New York) Daily Graphic — the first of approximately a dozen sequential strips by artist Charles Jay Taylor, appearing in the Daily Graphic in 1881 and 1882, and featuring William H. Vanderbilt as the main character. In this outing — titled Our Captious Artist’s Interpretation of a [...]
C.J. Taylor’s William Vanderbilt Comic Strips, 1881-82, Episode 0: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 36
In the years 1881 and 1882, artist Charles Jay Taylor created a series of approximately one dozen sequential comic strips featuring monopolist and stock market manipulator, William H. Vanderbilt, as the main character. These appeared on the front page of the (New York) Daily Graphic, usually with a gap of months between each stand-alone episode. So far as I [...]
The Rapid Transit Pie, 1879: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 34
Today, The Rapid Transit Pie, by Joseph Keppler, from the cover of the July 9th, 1879 issue of Puck magazine. In it, one of our two favorite monopolists and stock market manipulators — William H. Vanderbilt — is shown attempting to grab all of NYC’s rapid transit “pie” for himself. As explained in the same Puck issue, [...]
