Flag Day
For Flag Day, I’ve culled through my past postings, to find comics covers where the U.S. flag was featured prominently. Not surprisingly, the majority of these flag-waving instances involved war and/or veterans. Above, from the 1942 book War Cartoons, we have Joseph Parrish’s day-after-Pearl Harbor editorial cartoon, “At Your Service”. Beneath, the covers from four [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial June 1913
With the June 1913 issue, Cartoons Magazine made its first major format change. Most immediately obvious, is its reduction in size — shown above, side-by-side, are the May & June issues. While Cartoons Magazine explained this change as having been requested by its readers, I’d far more believe it was because the smaller format was [...]
U.S. Recognition of the Chinese Republic / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
WARNING: The below posting includes racist imagery With Mainland China’s President Xi Jinping, today in the U.S. and meeting with President Obama, we look back one hundred years ago to the June 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine, whose front cover (above, with cartoon by Phil Porter) and 3-page article (further down below) involve the U.S. [...]
J.P. Morgan: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #116 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
A few quick peeks today at monopolist market manipulator, J.P. Morgan, who helped buy several U.S. Presidential Elections for the Republican Party (such as William McKinley’s election). Above, a depiction of J.P. Morgan by artist James E. Murphy, found in the February 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below cartoons to [...]
Uprisings in Turkey: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
I’ve been wondering when I might use these pages from the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine, involving the 1913 Coup in the Ottoman Empire (Turkey). With riots in Turkey this week, it seems the right time. Above, cartoons by Harry J. Westerman, Frank Michael Spangler (who depicts the rebelling officers as the Katzenjammer Kids), [...]
Marching Towards the Great War!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Our March Towards the Great War (World War I) — whose official start is just over a year away — continues, this time with cartoons involving what in retrospect, can be seen as a deliberate working towards war, instead of backing away from it. All of the cartoons in this post (except where stated otherwise) [...]
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 [...]
Cinco de Mayo: Mexican Revolution & Cartoons Magazine Centennials, 1913
For this year’s Cinco de Mayo, we have a number of cartoons that appeared in first half of 1913, in various newspapers, and from there were reprinted in Cartoons Magazine. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, February & March 1913 were particularly volatile. The occupants of the National Palace changed hands several times, inspiring 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 [...]
