Latin America & Pacific Territories: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
WARNING: The below posting includes racially offensive cartoons. Tonight’s Presidential Debate being on Foreign Policy, and, today being the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, together make this a good day to look back at U.S. foreign policy, in 1912, via that year’s Cartoons Magazine. Decisions made today, can have lasting impact far into [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, October 1912
Welcome back again to another round of nostalgia for those Good Ol’ Days of one century ago, which we all so fondly remember from our youth (if you’re Methuselah, with selective amnesia). Courtesy of the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. And what would be the paradise of the Good Ol’ Days, without a snake [...]
William Howard Taft: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
Other websites may keep you informed of the latest stumbles and sneezes of the candidates, but, only here on SuperI.T.C.H. can you remain up-to-the-century on election details! Today’s focus, embattled incumbent President, William Howard Taft, brought to you courtesy of the October (below) and November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine. Above, a page of cartoons [...]
Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #104
Above, Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency, by artist Joseph Keppler, Sr., depicting Republican fund raisers in the guise of medieval clergy selling indulgences (i.e., back before/during Martin Luther, the church would sell tickets to Heaven, in which people could be absolved for any sin, for enough money “donated” to the church). Implied in [...]
Paying Tribute: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #103
Above, depicting rural and city workers handing over their wages and taxes in obeisance to the corporate monopolies, who rule via the sowrd of legislation, which they own/control. “History Repeats Itself. — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of To-Day”, by Samuel Ehrhart, from the centerspread of the November 6th, [...]
Three-Way Partying 3!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
Back yet again with our up-to-the-century election coverage, via the October and November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, from back in the days when insurgent forces inside the Republican Party split it in two, giving us a major three-way race, plus hope to minor parties that their day might finally be arriving. Above, cartoons involving [...]
Teddy Roosevelt Shot!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
On this date, one century ago, Presidential candidate Teddy Roosevelt was shot while on his way to giving a campaign speech, by would-be assassin John Flammang Schrank. Roosevelt was known for giving long-winded speeches, and it was the thick notes of his speech which slowed down the bullet enough, that T.R.‘s wound was not fatal. [...]
General Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
As we approach Election’s end, I’m bringing in pages from the November as well as the October 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, so post-Election, we’ll be free of politics for awhile. Today, pages addressing mostly the non-Presidential level of the 1912 Election. Above, from October 1912, art by William Kemp Starrett, Robert Satterfield, and Cy [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
From Cartoons Magazine issues of 1912, we have Presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson, depicted as either fighting monopolies (in the page from November 1912, below), or, slyly aligned with them (the above page, from October 1912). Art by Billy DeBeck, Robert Carter, Alfred West Brewerton, and Harry Osborn (above); and Jack Wilson, W.A. Ireland, Phil Porter [...]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
To close out this year’s Back-to-School run, above & below are a few pages that managed to escape my sweep of Cartoons Magazine, by hiding out in the November 1912 issue, way past when I would have thought that Back-to-School cartoons would have been running… Cartoonists above are: H.T. Webster, William Kemp Starrett, and Fontaine [...]
