April 1st
To open April Fools’ Month, we present two pages from the 1925 collection, Cartoons from Life, in which artist Ellison Hoover uses contemporary comic strip characters to communicate editorial opinions (above), and to “improve” famous paintings (below). Comic strips involved in these parodies include: Polly and Her Pals; Bringing Up Father; Captain and the Kids [...]
Our Congress
From the 1925 collection, Cartoons from Life, by Ellison Hoover, we have a view of “Our Next Congress”. Which, actually, looks more like our current and several past Congresses to me. Click on the above cartoon, to view it in greater detail. Congress has perennially been the target of cartoonists, depicting them as inept, combative, [...]
Ellison Hoover’s Flag Day
Above & below, from cartoonist Ellison Hoover‘s 1925 collection, Cartoons from Life — (reprinted, naturally, from Life magazine) — we have two cartoons appropriate for Flag Day. From Ellison’s cartoon series, Intimate Glimpses of American Generals of Industry, above, the founder/namesake of the Hoover Vacuum Company, “justifies the claims of his newest five-star supersuction sweeper”. [...]
Daughters of the Revolution: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 74
With current Republican Presidential candidates calling for the elimination of all regulations on industry, including laws against child labor, we look at a couple cartoons created to shine light on the evils which the Republican Party wants to return us to. The title of Daughters of the Revolution, above, originally published in Life magazine, carries [...]
