Women’s History Month: Canadian Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
From the February 1913 (above) and April 1913 (below) issues of Cartoons Magazine, Canadian male cartoonists Arthur G. Racey and Hunter chide American Suffragettes to leave Canadian women out of the struggle for equal rights, as they are happy without them… (Again, according to two male cartoonists.) Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, December 1912
Without an election to cover, with December 1912, Cartoons Magazine made several alterations in format. One was that with potent subject matter reduced, there is a reduction in the average number of cartoons per page, including a significant increase in the number of full page cartoons. Another change, is a huge jump in the number [...]
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
We’re approaching both Halloween and next week’s election. What could be scarier subject for male Republican candidates than Women’s Suffrage(given how often they’re prone to make the colossal mistake of letting slip what their true opinions are)? All pages extracted from the October & November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & [...]
Paying Tribute: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #103
Above, depicting rural and city workers handing over their wages and taxes in obeisance to the corporate monopolies, who rule via the sowrd of legislation, which they own/control. “History Repeats Itself. — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of To-Day”, by Samuel Ehrhart, from the centerspread of the November 6th, [...]
Summer Heat: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 13 + October 1912
From the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, proof that 100 years ago, it got warm in the Summer! Take that, believers in Global Warming! (P.S. — no need to compare the temperatures involved — these cartoons are “fact” enough! It got hot back then, okay? What do NASA and climate scientists know about planet-wide [...]
Swat That Fly!: Tigwissel Tuesdays #31: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 4
Above, the wrap-around cover from the 1930-published booklet, Health in Pictures, collecting public service comics & cartoons. The government telling people what to do for their health. You know — Socialism! — published during the reign of socialist dictator, uhmm… Herbert Hoover…??? Click on the above picture, to view the cover in more detail. Below, [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #94: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 7
Nearly every monthly issue of Cartoons Magazine featured pages on the abuses, and battles against, unfettered, monopolistic corporate power. In 1912 U.S., regulations to attempt to reign in the abuses which the people well knew, had only recently been passed. Politicians and officials who want to implement those regulations, struggled with other politicians and officials, [...]
The 1912 Cuban Intervention: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 5
WARNING: Contains racist imagery! Extracted from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, the above two pages preceded the 1912 U.S. Invasion/Intervention of Cuba, to put down an armed uprising of Afro-Cubans, who were rebelling against discrimination and poor living conditions. The uprising was known in Cuba as the “Little Race War”, and was led [...]
Canada Day: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 0
This being Canada Day, and also the bicentennial year of the War of 1812, we look back 100 years to Canadian artist Arthur G. Racey‘s cartoon regarding the centennial of that confluence (with then “Dominion Day”), in “A Century Ago and Now”. The cartoon was originally published in the Montreal Star, and reprinted in the [...]
U.S. & Neighbors: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 9
We take a brief political break (sort of) to look at the U.S.’s international relationships, circa 1912, all from the June 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, a set of cartoons regarding the ongoing Mexican Revolution, by Frank Michael Spangler and others. Below, Boardman Robinson, Loeb, and the New York Yiddish newspaper The Kibitzer, on [...]
