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, [...]
Ohio River Flood: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
From Cartoons Magazine, we have coverage of the Ohio River Flood of 1913. Last Year’s Earth Day posting, however, included the Ohio River Flood of 1883, so doing so on that day would have been repetitious. Above, from the March 1913 issue, we have cartoons by Charles “Doc” Winner, Stinson, and Billy DeBeck Click on [...]
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 4 + Themes Revue
Above & below, from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, are a couple pages of cartoons on the subject of Women’s Suffrage. Above, American cartoons, including one by Robert Satterfield; beneath, two views from the Italian comic publication, Turin Fischietto. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
Earth Day: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, May 1912, Part 0.2
Awareness of damage to the environment was rather scant during the Nineteenth Century, so finding any environmental cartoons from this period, is rare. When they are found, it nearly always involves the aftermath/results of some environmental damage caused by Man. Above, from rear cover of the February 28th, 1883 issue of Puck, comes The Lesson [...]
Earth Day 2011 + Pre-YK Talkies
Welcome to our second annual Earth Day posting (to see last year’s posting involving a couple of Cady cartoons, click here). Above is Page One from the 1878 British graphic novel, A Week at the Lakes and What Came of it; or, The Adventures of Mr. Dobbs and his friend Mr. Potts, by artist J. [...]
Harrison Cady’s Earth Day…
There may not have been an Earth Day when artist Harrison Cady created these cartoons, but still he spoke to the subject. These cartoons appeared in Life magazine, in 1925 and 1911, respectively. Additionally, not by Harrison Cady, but I feel like adding one of my own comics addressing the subject. Art by Doug Rice & Hilary Barta. Appeared in [...]
