C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 Comic Strips starring William Vanderbilt, Episode 4: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 42
In Episode Four artist Charles Jay Taylor penchance again turns a newspaper interview with William H. Vanderbilt, into sequential comic strips, wherein the visuals question the veracity of what Vanderbilt has said - and raise why the reporter wasn’t tougher in his interrogation of Vanderbilt. (No, this isn’t what Taylor did in all the episodes — he moves away from this approach, in the next installment.) The below example, Mr. Vanderbilt on Rates, appeared on the front page of the August 25, 2025 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic, this time plays off of a (New York) Tribune interview.
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Episode Five will appear during next week. Click here to find the other 1881-82 William Vanderbilt comic strips posted so far.
To find the prior Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons entries and related I.T.C.H. posts, click here. This series will continue, while the debate on financial reforms continues in Congress (except Mondays and holidays, on which I already had other material planned).
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— Doug
