Three-Way Partying!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
We look back again to 1912, the year that America experimented with partying threeways! Added to spice things up between the longtime duo of Democratic and Republican parties, was the hot new star, the Progressive Party. Via the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, cartoons for and against Democrat Woodrow Wilson. Below, the same, [...]
Poor Astor Baby: Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year 1912
In August 1912, Mrs. Madeleine Talmage Astor gave birth to her son. This captured attention, not really because it was a new child born into wealthy aristocracy, but because Mr. & Mrs. Astor had been returning from their honeymoon, aboard the Titanic, and Madeleine Astor had been pregnant while onboard. The newborn John Jacob Astor [...]
Post-Nomination Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
Cartoons Magazine‘s close-up on cartoonists for September 1912, focused on Herbert Johnson and Alfred West Brewerton. Click on the above picture, to read their bios, plus to see in detail their Bull Moose and Teddy Roosevelt cartoons they are shown with. Above, sitting President William Howard Taft, depicted by cartoonists Luther D. Bradley, Charles Lewis [...]
The Bull Moose Party vs. the Black Vote: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
WARNING: The below posting contains racist cartoons. We’ve shown a few racist cartoons in our chronological presentation of the material that ran in Cartoons Magazine, but this is the largest & worst group of such cartoons thus far. Some people would simply not show them, afraid that giving them wide visibility might perpetuate the attitudes [...]
Regulation as Wall Street Pretends to See it: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #99
The wealthy crying that any laws restricting their reckless financial gambling (i.e., what gave us both the First and current Second Great Depressions), and doing anything they want to the benefit of their personal selves when it works — and to the harm of everyone else when it doesn’t — is “Socialist Tyranny”, is hardly [...]
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
Panama Canal: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
From the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, we have another round of cartoons revealing America’s 1912 view of its “ownership” of the Panama Canal. Cartoonists hopping on this jingoistic boat, include Fred Morgan, Charles Lewis Bartholomew (“Bart”) (above), and others. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
We kick off our third annual Back-to-School Month cartoons, with pages on that theme, from the September 1912 (above) and October 1912 (all the pages below, except the last) issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Cartoons above & below by [...]
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 [...]
NYPD Becker Scandal, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 10 + September 1912 thru January 1913
Above, from the August 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, are cartoons by Charles Bowers and others — concerning corruption in the New York City Police Department in general, inspired by the case of police officer/criminal/convicted murderer Charles Becker (click on his name, to read about his case). Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
