Can He Stand It Himself?
Numerous politicians have lain accusations on their opponents, for things they themselves could be burned on. For example, Newt Gingrich questioning the honesty and integrity of others, and calling others liars — prosecuting President Bill Clinton for an adulterous act, while he (and numerous other Republicans who joined with Gingrich, it was later found out) [...]
Non-Tattooed Blaine…
Above & below, a couple of non-Tattooed cartoons on James G. Blaine, from the 1884 Election & Puck magazine. Blaine was the highly corrupt former Speaker of the House, whose moral failings plus arrogance, blew it for the Republicans in 1884. Delusionally self-important Newt Gingrich, is today following in Blaine’s dirty footsteps. Above, a Frederick [...]
James Blaine’s “The Tattooed Man” as Phryné, June 4th, 1884
Above, Phryne Before the Chicago Tribunal, by artist Bernhard Gillam. Of the twenty-two cartoons in “The Tattooed-Man” series, the above is the best known, because of the reaction it generated. It ran as the centerspread in the June 4th, 1884 issue of Puck magazine, during the Republican nominating Convention in Chicago. The Tattooed Man series [...]
The Vault of Republican Morality: James Blaine’s “The Tattooed Man” series, June 11th, 1884
We return again with another cartoon in Puck magazine’s The Tattooed-Man series. parodying former Speaker of the House, James G. Blaine. His long career filled with corruption and impropriety, inspired Puck‘s artist to depict him as a man whose body is tattooed head-to-toe with his many sins. I’m running the series because of Blaine’s numerous [...]
The Man in Love with Himself: James Blaine, “The Tattooed-Man”, 1884
We return to Newt Gingrich’s late-19th Century soulmate, James G. Blaine, a former Speaker-of-the-House, nominated by the Republican Party as their Presidential choice. His run for the White House was brought down by his many accumulated acts of corruption and impropriety, which Puck magazine parodied in a series of cartoons by showing Blaine as a [...]
James G. Blaine’s Debut as “The Tattooed Man”, April 16, 2026
Above, by artist Bernhard Gillam, the April 16th, 1884 debut of Presidential candidate & eventual Republican Party nominee James Blaine, as The Tattooed Man. Blaine was the late 19th Century’s version of current candidate, Newt Gingrich — a former Speaker of the House, known for his astoundingly arrogance, reputation for lying, and a long history [...]
One of the Latest Hold-Ups: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 68
Above, One of the Latest Hold-Ups, from a scrapbook of Chicago area cartoons (mostly Chicago Tribune), gathered in the first half of 1897. Click on the above picture to view it in full detail. Depicted is Uncle Sam attempting to bring 1897 America back to “Prosperityville” (and out of one of numerous pre-Great Depressions, this [...]
We’ve Been Here Before: Labor Cartoons # 1
Politicians, Big Business & Labor in 2010 Judging from corporate profits, we should be enjoying a powerful economic recovery. The drop in profits in the recession was about a third, the worst since World War II. But every day brings reports of gains … So far, history be damned. The contrast between revived profits and [...]
Jay Gould, the King of the Robber Barons, Part 2
"… the Most Accomplished of All Modern Criminals … an Inspired Fiend … he had Not a Conception of a Moral Principle" Descriptions of Jay Gould by historians and biographers Click here to read Part 1 In the early 1880s, Jay Gould was engaged in a frenetic series of predatory transactions that gave him [...]
Caricature vs. the Corporation # 06: The Modern Prometheus
"Huge angry mobs converged outside bank employees’ houses on Sunday afternoon to demand banks stop lobbying against Wall Street reform." May 16, 2010, Class Warfare: Hundreds Protest Outside Bankers’ Houses In DC "Dozens of noisy purple-shirted SEIU protesters stormed a Bank of America branch near the U.S. Capitol on Monday, forcing the bank to close [...]
