Cartoons Magazine 1912 Centennial, Part Zero
One of our Christmas presents today, is a preview of our upcoming monthly celebration of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial Year. Cartoons Magazine began publication in January 1912, reprinting the editorial cartoons of its day. Naturally, there was a delay of a month or two between a cartoon’s first appearance in the newspapers, and its re-presentation in Cartoons Magazine. Thus, each of the below Christmas-themed cartoons, appeared in the January 1912 debut issue…
The above and below cartoons were both reprinted smaller than the presentation here (they occupied only a quarter of a page), which is why these are difficult to read. The jist of the above strip is obvious.
The joke of the below strip, by cartoonist Clare Briggs, involves a wife asking her husband what he wants for Christmas. He answers “A new bowling ball”. She writes down a new bowling ball. She asks him what else. He gives that answer, and she writes that down. She asks and what else? And he lists something else again, and she writes that as well. Christmas Day, she gives him a tie, and he politely responds, “Just what I wanted.”
To find previous posts involving Christmas Comics, click here.
Year 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine (hopefully, better in focus), will follow every month.
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— Doug
