Super I.T.C.H » Blog Archive » Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 9
Get these books by
Craig Yoe:
Archie's Mad House Krazy Kat & The Art of George Herriman: A Celebration
Archie's Mad House The Carl Barks Big Book of Barney Bear
Archie's Mad House Amazing 3-D Comics
Archie's Mad House Archie's Mad House
Archie's Mad House The Great Treasury of Christmas Comic Book Stories
Archie's Mad House The Official Fart Book
Archie's Mad House The Official Barf Book
Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales of Bud Sagendorf Popeye: The Great Comic Book Tales of Bud Sagendorf
Archie: Seven Decades of America's Favorite Teenagers... And Beyond! Archie: Seven Decades of America's Favorite Teenagers... And Beyond!
Dick Briefer's Frankenstein Dick Briefer's Frankenstein
Barney Google: Gambling, Horse Races, and High-Toned Women Barney Google: Gambling, Horse Races, and High-Toned Women
Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails Felix The Cat: The Great Comic Book Tails
Klassic Krazy Kool Kids Komics The Golden Collection of Klassic Krazy Kool KIDS KOMICS"
"Another amazing book from Craig Yoe!"
-Jerry Beck
CartoonBrew.com
Dan DeCarlo's Jetta Dan DeCarlo's Jetta
"A long-forgotten comic book gem."
-Mark Frauenfelder
BoingBoing.net
The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story The Complete Milt Gross Comic Books and Life Story
"Wonderful!"
-Playboy magazine
"Stunningly beautiful!"
- The Forward
"An absolute must-have."
-Jerry Beck
CartoonBrew.com
The Art of Ditko
The Art of Ditko
"Craig's book revealed to me a genius I had ignored my entire life."
-Mark Frauenfelder
BoingBoing.net
The Greatest Anti-War Cartoons
The Great Anti-War Cartoons
Introduction by Nobel Peace Prize winner Muhammad Yunus
"Pencils for Peace!"
-The Washington Post
Boody: The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers
Boody: The Bizarre Comics of Boody Rogers
"Crazy, fun, absurd!"
-Mark Frauenfelder
BoingBoing.net
More books by Craig Yoe
Thursday, August 16, 2025

Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 9

For this month’s collection of Good Ol’ Days potpourri, we start above with the “Trials and Tribulations” of kids. Above kid stuff, by Fontaine Fox, and John Campbell Cory, with more kid stuff below, by Fontaine Fox again, and Clare Briggs. Extracted from the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine.

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

Next, moving on to adult stuff, with trials of the Cost of Living, above, by James H. Donahey, and passenger car tribulations by William Charles Morris and Ralph Everett Wilder.

Then, on to crabby adult stuff, with W.C. Morris“Lawn Mowing at 4:30 A.M.”, below.

Finally, yet more Morris below, amongst a collection of cartoons involving the relationship of the sexes, circa 1912.

Doug Wheeler


Doug

View the entire blog

I.T.C.H is looking forward to your thoughts. Please, no flame. Thanks!

SUBSCRIBE