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Monday, January 28, 2026

Christmas Bills: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913

By this time, most of us have gotten socked this January, with the bills we rang up in November/December, for Christmas. It was no different 100 years ago, as these cartoons from the February 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine attest. Above, cartoonist Billy Ireland on that precise situation.

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Below, artist Doc Hirer Finch, using Ted Powers’ Joys & Glooms characters, to express the joy of Christmas Present, changed to the gloom of paying for them…

Doug Wheeler

Christmas Comics W.A. Ireland


— Doug

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