To Close out this year’s April Fools’ Month, we bring our focus not on fools, but on some of the orchestrators of fun — the cartoonists. Above and below are the pages concentrated on cartoonists, from the April 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine.

Above, a brief auto bio written by artist Billy DeBeck, along with an Income Tax cartoon appropriate for this month.

Click on the above & below pages, to enlarge them enough to read the text.

Beneath, short bits involving cartoonists William Kemp Starrett, Harry Murphy, Homer Davenport, and B.F. Hammond.

Above, nostalgia from 1910, about the good old days of the 1890′s, by artist Frank Wing, known for his series of cartoons — Yesterdays — which looked back to that past (and I suspect, from a 1920′s published collection I have, came across as dated, even then)…

In the fourth entry of Henry C. Williamson‘s articles about 19th century cartoonists, below, he writes about artist Bernhard Gillam‘s “Tattooed Man” series, depicting 1884 G.O.P. Presidential nominee James G. Blaine, as a man whose sins are written on his body, head-to-toe (and ran in Puck magazine, during that campaign). Clicking on the above links will take you to our postings of those same cartoons, last year.

Above, a short bio on cartoonist Karl K. Knecht.

Beneath, commentary about some of the cartoon subjects appearing in the April 1913 issue (which I’ve been gathering with cartoons from other months, into theme-based postings). Subjects include the ongoing Mexican Revolution (we’ll see many of those this coming Sunday); Cubist & Futurist Art, and the Women’s Suffrage Movement.

Finally, we have an article on “The Influence of Cartooning”, written by cartoonist J.E. Whiting.

Doug Wheeler

NYPuck Tattooed-Man James Blaine