Gosh, Pa! How Much Did He Steal?: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 65
I’d been planning to resume the Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons series of last year, starting in 2012. But the growing Occupy Wall Street movement has had me itching to get back to the subject earlier. Click on the pictures above and below, to view larger versions. First up, Childish Simplicity, published in the [...]
Keeping Cool: C.M. Coolidge, and Hopkins at the Daily Graphic Office
The variety of methods for keeping cool before the age of air-conditioning, could be an endless source of inspiration for early cartoonists (who, due to the nature of deadlines, may have been producing these in the winter!) Below, from 1883, a series of trade cards by one of our eternal favorites, Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, who is [...]
C.M. Coolidge’s Father’s Day, 1882
Artist Cassius Marcellus Coolidge — famed for his classic American painting, Dogs Playing Poker — a masterpiece appreciated most by fathers, created in 1882 a set of comic cards titled, I’m a Daddy, advertised in such places as the back of Harper’s Weekly, and selling for ten cents per set. Below are two advertising cards, promoting to dealers the [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 13: As We See ‘Em Vanity Cartoon Books Part 1.5
This past Monday (plus coming next Monday), we have examples from city-based Local Vanity Cartoon Books circa 1904-1920s, wherein cartoonists from that town’s newspaper(s), were hired to depict members of the local business aristocracy. Today, for the Wall Street Frauds series, we’re concentrating examples involving bankers, real estate agents, and stock brokers. Let us note that none of [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 02: C.M. Coolidge’s circa 1880s “Playing Bank President”
The following series of circa 1880s trade cards, attributed to artist C.M. Coolidge (famous for his painting of dogs playing poker), depicts a child Playing Bank President according to the examples of his day. How it differs from today, is its lack of a Congressional Grilling, and in its final panel showing the pretend Bank President in jail [...]
C.M. Coolidge’s “Tale of a Wedded Life”…
For Valentine’s Day, we present this sweet story by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge, most popularly known for his great American Masterpiece painting, “Dogs Playing Poker”. Signed “Kash”, this set of ten cards telling a story, sold for $1.00 when it was published in 1877. Enjoy. Doug Wheeler ValentinesDay
