Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial July 1913
The July 1913 collection of Focus on Cartoonists pages from Cartoons Magazine, is a repeat of last month’s situation — wherein Cartoons Magazine had just changed both its sized and format, and the pages devoted to the cartoonists themselves, find themselves (temporarily) short changed. The pages have become more text than cartoon. The page below [...]
July 4th
Somehow, we keep ending up back at July 4th every year, so here we are, yet again! Must be a conspiracy by fireworks manufacturers! New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg must be a reader of SuperITCH (and I apologize for that), as every July 4th, cartoons of a century ago would fill with the joy [...]
Kids & Summer: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Kids, End of School, Summer. Above, from the September 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine, a cartoon from Clare Briggs‘ series, The Days of Real Sport. The welcoming of Summer, by Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling, in “When the Sun Came Out Again”, below. From August 1913. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the [...]
(Late) Arrival of Spring: Cartoons Magazine Centennial May 1913
With Summer officially arriving in another month, the time will soon be past for these Arrival of Spring cartoons, all from the May 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, Fred Morgan‘s cartoon, “Waking Him Up”, serves as the [...]
Cartoonists at the Theatre: Turn to the Right, 1916
We have one more cartoonist-illustrated theater giveaway for April Fools’ Month, advertising the travelling comedic play Turn to the Right, showing at Garrick Theatre in Philadelphia during the Christmas Season. (An internet search shows this play was at that theater during Christmas 1916, so unless it played there in other years on Christmas as well, [...]
1913 Armory Show: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Today is the 100th anniversary of the opening International Exhibition of Modern Art (February 17th to March 15th, 1913) in New York City, better known as the 1913 Armory Show. Presenting Cubist & Futurist Art to the American public, its influence is regarded as a major turning point for American Art. Naturally, as seen in [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, December 1912
From the December 1912 issue, we finish our coverage of the first year of Cartoons Magazine, with (appropriately enough) an assortment of cartoons on the humors of contemporary life. Above, a few Winter “Indoor Sports”, by H.T. Webster and Gaar Williams. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
Education & Vaccinations: Tigwissel Tuesdays #39
Above, anti-vaccination loons -in the mode of Republican Congresswoman & one-time leading Presidential G.O.P. Candidate Michele Bachmann — pictured blindly marching to disaster. Numerous Republican elected officials, have stated they would like to eliminate the Food & Drug Administration, and with it, all regulations regarding Food & Drug standards. Industry can better self-regulate itself, they [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 9
For this month’s collection of Good Ol’ Days potpourri, we start above with the “Trials and Tribulations” of kids. Above kid stuff, by Fontaine Fox, and John Campbell Cory, with more kid stuff below, by Fontaine Fox again, and Clare Briggs. Extracted from the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 11
We close the July 1912 review of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial Year, with a potpourri of Old Time Toons. Above, Fontaine Fox making fun of the Ice Delivery Man — from a time when daily delivered blocks of ice, was how ice boxes (home refrigerators) “worked”. Below, James H. Donahey and others, on modern romance… Click [...]
