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 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 [...]
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 [...]
Labor Day: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912, plus more Sacco & Vanzetti
Above, a page of Labor Day cartoons, from the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. From a time when children worked in factories, workers hurt on the job were disposable cogs thrown into the street, companies hired police & thugs to beat up and murder those who attempted to organize unions, weekends off and 8-hour [...]
Early Comic Books Revue
Above, extracted from Fun magazine, July 2nd, 1879, The Book Borrower, by artist James Sullivan. Click on it, to enlarge it to readable size. This being San Diego Comic Con weekend, when better than to look back at a few of the 19th & early 20th century comic books that can be found here on [...]
African American History: Cartoonist Fred Ellis
We conclude our coverage of African American History Month, with a collection of works by Fred Ellis, longtime cartoonist for The Daily Worker, in which all of the cartoons shown here first appeared. The above July 13th, 1927 cartoon, depicting a gun-toting plantation owner on horse back, saying Wal’, I Still Got You, from the [...]
Civil Rights Cartoons
We continue our African American History Month comics, with a collection of Civil Rights cartoons. Above, The Exodus from Dixie, by Robert Minor, Jr., originally published in the June 1923 issue of The Liberator, and reprinted in the 1926 collection, Red Cartoons. Click on the above cartoon, to view it in more detail. Below, the [...]
