Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
It’s time again for our monthly Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year Good Ol’ Days potpourri, looking back to the September 1912 issue. End of Summer cartoons, above, by Kin Hubbard (creator of Abe Martin) and Ralph Everett Wilder, and below, by Billy DeBeck and others. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons [...]
1912 Olympics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 8
For Olympics Closing Day, we have another set from the August 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine. Cartoonists include Pedro M. Llanuza, Alfred West Brewerton, Fred Morgan, A.B. Chapin, W.A. Ireland, Russ Westover, and Clifford K. Berryman. Click on the above pages, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Doug Wheeler Billy Ireland
Baseball: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 11
From June 1912 — back in the days when baseball actually was “America’s Favorite Pastime”, and a favorite topic of America’s cartoonists — come the following Cartoons Magazine extracts. My usual “and others” for contributions by lesser cartoonists not being tracked, does not even appear today, as all the contributors are stars. Above left, kids [...]
Teddy Roosevelt, Part 1: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 3
Today’s Election of 1912 cartoons, involve Teddy Roosevelt expecting to be handed the G.O.P. nomination for his third term run, and finding the party establishment not welcoming him. Above cartoons by Robert Minor, Jr., A.B. Chapin, and others. Below, the cartoons include on by John DeMar. Click on the above & below pictures, to view [...]
(Not Yet) Candidate Teddy Roosevelt: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 9
We close out our extracts from the February 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial Year, with the major not-yet-a-candidate in the 1912 Presidential Election — Teddy Roosevelt. The concentration above left of Egyptian Sphinx cartoons with T.R.’s face, including by A.B. Chapin and Clifford K. Berryman, owes to Roosevelt’s recent trip to Egypt. Above right, [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 1
We continue our celebration of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial, with the first of several extracts from its second issue, of February 1912. One notable addition from issue one, is a monthly focus hilighting specific cartoonists. This month, the spotlight is placed on John T. McCutcheon. McCutcheon created the above cover, depicting cartoonists of different nationalities drawing [...]
