The House That Jeff Built, 1863
For this year’s round of African American History Month postings, we open with cartoonist David Claypoole Johnston‘s Civil War-era broadsheet, “The House That Jeff Built”. Johnston is remembered mainly for his collections of non-sequential single panel images, “Scraps”, beginning in 1828. This is one of but a few times Johnston instead arranged his page to […]
Health Care
Today being the Supreme Court’s ruling on Health Care, I’ve quick thrown together a few related cartoons. Above, artist Syd Hoff‘s take on the Supreme Court, from his 1935 Great Depression I era book, The Ruling Clawss, collecting samples of his cartoons previously published in The Daily Worker. Click on the above & below cartoons, […]
R.I.P., Gabriel Laderman
Late last week, Terry Keegan, informed me of the death of a mutual friend, Gabriel Laderman. In the midst of my moving, I was not paying attention to many news sources, and so had missed the announcements in numerous quarters. Gabriel Laderman (seen left), born December 26, 1929, was a painter and art critic of […]
More Cartoons the Tea Party Would Like to Bring Back
The basic theme today, is to run a few cartoons involving ills of the past, which were cured by government programs or agencies, which various Tea Party candidates have stated they would like to eliminate. It being Halloween, it also helps if Death just happens to be hanging around in the cartoon. (Exception, I did […]
To the Texas State Board of (Mis)Education…
This past week, the Texas State Board of Education — whose decisions on textbook content affect not only Texas, but schools nationwide (due to the number of Texas students and the fact that they make decisions at a state rather than local level) — voted that textbook content be changed to more reflect the board’s […]
