Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial May 1913
Above, a pair of short bios of William Kemp Starrett and Ernest E. Burtt, opens up our monthly Focus on Cartoonists, scanned from the May 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. The May 1913 Comment and Review page below, [...]
(Late) Arrival of Spring: Cartoons Magazine Centennial May 1913
With Summer officially arriving in another month, the time will soon be past for these Arrival of Spring cartoons, all from the May 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, Fred Morgan‘s cartoon, “Waking Him Up”, serves as the [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial April 1913
To Close out this year’s April Fools’ Month, we bring our focus not on fools, but on some of the orchestrators of fun — the cartoonists. Above and below are the pages concentrated on cartoonists, from the April 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, a brief auto bio written by artist Billy DeBeck, along with [...]
Women’s History Month: More American Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
As this year’s Women’s History Month coverage approaches its end, we have one more round of Women’s Suffrage cartoons from 1913 issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and better read the words within them. Above, from the May 1913 issue, artist Carey Orr depicts [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Before we reach month’s end, it’s time we review the Focus on Cartoonists pages from the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, Robert Minor, Jr. writes about the cartoonist’s art. Click on the above & below pagees, to enlarge and read them. Below, Henry C. Williamson continues his series on 19th century cartooning, writing [...]
Farewell to Taft: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
March 4th, 1913 — President Wilson’s Inauguration Day — was also farewell day to the exiting President, William Howard Taft. Above, from the April 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, are cartoons on that subject, by artists Harold Heaton, Oscar Cesare, James H. Donahey, William Kemp Starrett, Charles Bowers, and Matthew Caine. Click on the above [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial February 1913
Cartoons Magazine continues its trend to expand its prose articles by and about cartoonists. Gathered here are all the articles from the February 1913 issue. Click on the above & below pages, to display them large enough to read. Above, artist William Kemp Starrett writes about a cartoonist’s day. Below, we have an article written [...]
William Jennings Bryan — Secretary of State: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Amongst the many positions which newly elected President Woodrow Wilson had to pick, was Secretary of State. Wilson, elected in November 1912, would not assume the Presidency until March 1913, and so had plenty of time to make his decisions — and took his time in announcing them. William Jennings Bryan, who had been the [...]
Farewell to Taft: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Above, with President-Elect Wilson about to be inaugurated (in March 1913, when inaugurations were scheduled later), cartoonists Oscar Cesare, Harold Heaton, James H. Donahey, William Kemp Starrett, Hunter, Matthew Caine, and Charles Bowers, say farewell to President William Howard Taft. From the April 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above pages, to view [...]
Christmas Helping 1: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, December 1912
From the December 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, we comes a small helping of Christmas cartoons. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, by Frank Michael Spangler and H.T. Webster. Below, by George W. French. Above, William Kemp Starrett; below, O’Loughlin. Doug Wheeler Christmas [...]
