Yesterday, we presented a group of cartoons on the centennial of the Titanic striking an iceberg, from the May issue of Cartoons Magazine (click here to see those).

Today — the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s early morning slipping beneath the waves — we have a second grouping, extracted this time from the June 1912 issue.

(Each month, Cartoons Magazine gathered & reprinted cartoons from other publications. Thus, there typically was a one or two month delay between events of the day, and cartoons on that subject appearing in Cartoons Magazine.)

Memorialized above, are Isador & Ida Straus, owners of Macy’s Department Store, who famously refused to be separated, and went down with the Titanic, together. By cartoonist Zuni Maud, in the New York City jewish newspaper, The Kibitzer.

Below, British affront, aimed not at the ship owners for their failure to have enough lifeboats, but at Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan, for having the bad manners of chairing an investigation into the disaster. By artist James Sykes, of the British magazine, the The Bystander.

Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their text.

Next, cartoons about the investigation from the American view, including one by Ole May, parodying the British attitude on display above.

Finally, while most other cartoon sites focusing on the Titanic Disaster are showing modern cartoons that use the Titanic as political analogy, the Chicago Tribune site is re-presenting the 1912 cartoons of one of our favorite artists — John T. McCutcheon. Click here to see those McCutcheon cartoons.

Doug Wheeler

LondonBystander Titanic Cartoons