Episode 10.5: C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips: “The Public Be Damned!”, Part 2
From the October 18th, 1882 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic, artist Charles Jay Taylor takes a second poke at William Vanderbilt, for his “The public be damned” comment. (To see the first poke, click here.) Taylor shows Vanderbilt standing atop a pyramid of human beings, whose efforts support him. His trains are approaching from all directions, entering the tunnels at the base of his pyramid. As with Taylor’s previous cartoon, he (or the Daily Graphic’s editor) substituted dashes for the word “Damned”, in deference to nineteenth century sensibilities.
As usual when you see a “.5″ episode, it’s because this one isn’t a comic strip, but, being a cartoon by Taylor about Vanderbilt, and published during the timeframe of Taylor’s actual sequential Vanderbilt strips, I didn’t want to skip over it.
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Tomorrow, Puck magazine’s response to “The Public Be Damned”.
Click on C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William H. Vanderbilt Comic Strips, to find the previously posted episodes.
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