Flag Day
For Flag Day, I’ve culled through my past postings, to find comics covers where the U.S. flag was featured prominently. Not surprisingly, the majority of these flag-waving instances involved war and/or veterans.
Above, from the 1942 book War Cartoons, we have Joseph Parrish’s day-after-Pearl Harbor editorial cartoon, “At Your Service”.
Beneath, the covers from four different issues of Hello Buddy, one of several cartoon & joke pamphlets sold on the street by Disabled & Unemployed WW I Veterans, starting just after (or perhaps even during) WW I, through Great Depression I, and into the start of WW II.
Clicking on any cover, will take you to the post where that cover was originally used.
From the September 19th, 1896 centerspread of Up-To-Date magazine, we have a parody on politicians who misuse devotion to the flag, to promote their own agenda.
Finally, to close out, we have below the cover of the January 1912 first issue of our favorite continuing comics title, Cartoons Magazine.
— Doug
