Fred Ellis’ Oil Cartoons
With yet another major oil spill (the oil pipeline rupture spilling tar sands-derived oil, in Mayflower, Arkansas), and oil industry representatives using spin to try to deivert attention from facts, this year’s Earth Day posting returns to the theme of Big Oil. Above, “Bubble, Bubble, Oil and Trouble” by Fred Ellis, from the February 14th, [...]
African American History Month: Southern Lynchings & Queen Cotton
WARNING: One of the below cartoons includes racist imagery. We continue our African American History Month coverage, with a few images from Cartoons Magazine (above) and The Daily Worker (below). Above, “This Judge’s Recall Favored” by John Campbell Cory, from the September 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine. Beneath, “This is our State Right” by Fred [...]
Wall Street Buys the Elections: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #109
Above, the front cover of the September 26th, 1896 issue of Up-To-Date. Titled Man and Master, it depicts Corporate Power dictating to workers how they should vote. Art by Champe. Beneath, The Vote That Elects Our President — being the signature in a checkbook, given by the wealthy/corporations, to fund the political campaign they favor [...]
Wall Street Panics & Collapses: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #107
Using mostly cartoons shown over the course of our Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons run, plus a scattering of a few new ones, we have a brief review in pictures, of Wall Street Crashes & Panics, from mid-19th Century, up through Great Depression I. The upcoming election pits one candidate who is a millionaire [...]
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 [...]
Military vs. Budget: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #105
So hey people, today we start out with cartoons on some actual warships, just a few years prior to 1916! And guess what, they were arguing back then, on whether they had enough ships! And just out, Mitt Romney’s newest round of advertisements, takes his penchance for lying to a whole new level. He has [...]
Latin America & Pacific Territories: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
WARNING: The below posting includes racially offensive cartoons. Tonight’s Presidential Debate being on Foreign Policy, and, today being the 50th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, together make this a good day to look back at U.S. foreign policy, in 1912, via that year’s Cartoons Magazine. Decisions made today, can have lasting impact far into [...]
Union Busting: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #102
Above, by artist Homer Davenport, from back in the days when corporations hired thugs to beat up, & sometimes murder, striking workers (and often with the help of the government and the police), comes “Arbitration in a Strike” — Plate 17 in Davenport‘s collection, The Dollar or the Man?. Republicans have been especially on the [...]
The Wretched Poor…
…or, as Mitt Romney referred to them in his speech that keeps on giving, 47% of Americans. Following, is a handful of cartoons reflective of the Romney attitude towards non-wealthy American workers, retirees, and veterans, which he laid bare by the words he spoke when amongst his own (those who can spend $50,000 on lunch). [...]
The Ruling Clawss: Born into Privilege
We all know the old business mantra, “You need to have money, to make money.” One of our two (major) Presidential candidate’s claim to success is grounded in having inherited his start-up funds, and, while on the campaign trail, he told students (at Otterbein University in Ohio) that if they wanted to pay for their [...]
