Child Labor: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #106
With some Tea Party Republican extremists calling for the elimination of regulations, going so far as to eliminate regulations against Child Labor — and, with the possibility of a Republican President who allow this and other extremist legislation from a Republican Congress to pass without a veto — we take a look at a few [...]
Three-Way Partying 3!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
Back yet again with our up-to-the-century election coverage, via the October and November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, from back in the days when insurgent forces inside the Republican Party split it in two, giving us a major three-way race, plus hope to minor parties that their day might finally be arriving. Above, cartoons involving [...]
Regulation as Wall Street Pretends to See it: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #99
The wealthy crying that any laws restricting their reckless financial gambling (i.e., what gave us both the First and current Second Great Depressions), and doing anything they want to the benefit of their personal selves when it works — and to the harm of everyone else when it doesn’t — is “Socialist Tyranny”, is hardly [...]
Civil Rights Cartoons
We continue our African American History Month comics, with a collection of Civil Rights cartoons. Above, The Exodus from Dixie, by Robert Minor, Jr., originally published in the June 1923 issue of The Liberator, and reprinted in the 1926 collection, Red Cartoons. Click on the above cartoon, to view it in more detail. Below, the [...]
Memorial Week, Day 5: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 29
Day 5 of our week-long exploration of pamphlets sold on the streets by unemployed WW I veterans, during the first Great Depression. Below, cover art by J.J. O’Neill. Click on any picture, to see an enlarged version. Below are two cartoons from inside the pamphlets. Left, by Dan Napoli. Right, by Art Young. Click here to find prior [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 06: The Merry Go Round of Life
This time out, some cartoons showing the effects, rather than crashes themselves. The Merry Go Round, by Harrison Cady, showing the rich partying on the backs of the working poor who support them — an appropriate image for today’s Wall Street, rescued by all of us, and now raking in huge profits, caring not for [...]
To Sleep, Perchance to Draw!
During WWI, communist Art Young was tried for conspiracy for his anti-war cartoons. Although facing 20 years in prison, Young fell asleep at his trial. Awakened by his worried lawyer, Young flippantly drew himself sleeping!
A Charlie Brown Tattoo-Good Grief!
Sin-sational artist COOP spied this cool Charlie Brown tat. The tattoo was inked by Sick Dogs Tattoo And Piercing in West Westminster, CA (I’m sorry to hear about their dogs). I’ve added a few pics of Charlie Brown and Lucy to compare to the gal and guy in the tattoo shop. Incidentally, COOP drew the [...]
Mow Mow Mow the Heads
Every volume of the Arf books has a section called “Cartoonists Go To Hell”. In the latest Arf book, Arf Forum I featured the amazing Victorian devilish drawings of Henry Heath. In Arf Museum there were some of the many Hell-oriented drawings done by that old Commie cartoonist Art Young from mostly the 1920s (including [...]
Eddie Campbell: Artist FOR ARF’S SAKE
Being a long-time and huge fan of the comics by Eddie Campbell I’m happy to see that we might both be a members of "The Mutual Admiration Society". On Campbell’s most excellent blog The Fate of The Artist he talks kindly about Arf: "I just noticed Craig Yoe plugging (Jan 30) his recent Arf Museum [...]
