Cartoons Magazine Centennial’s Post-Election 1912
Finally, finally, we’ve reached the Closing Out, of the Closing Out, of the 1912 Election! (It’s only taken me, like, a hundred years.) As a reprinter of the prior months’ editorial cartoons, Cartoons Magazine‘s November Election follow-up, naturally appeared in its December (mostly) & January (some) issues. In this post, the page is from the [...]
Labor Day: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912, plus more Sacco & Vanzetti
Above, a page of Labor Day cartoons, from the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. From a time when children worked in factories, workers hurt on the job were disposable cogs thrown into the street, companies hired police & thugs to beat up and murder those who attempted to organize unions, weekends off and 8-hour [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 2
We continue our celebration of the centennial of Cartoons Magazine, with more extracts from its January 1912 first issue. Today’s extracts involve sin (or, the 1912 idea of it), crime, and punishment. First, two anti-smoking cartoons. The top-most comic is a reprinted episode from The Outbursts of Everett True strip, by A.D. Condo. Below, the [...]
