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 [...]
Blaine Bits
Usually, when we’ve posted cartoons involving James G. Blaine — the corrupt Speaker of the House from Maine, reknowned for his flagrant and brazen lying, who was the G.O.P.’s 1884 Presidential nominee — they’ve been the large color cartoons positioned in the front, rear, and center of Puck magazine. Puck‘s pages between the color cartoons, [...]
The Working Man’s Friend
So okay, I had planned to introduce this set of cartoons this month anyway, but Mitt Romney just two days ago made all my intros for the next month-and-a-half, a whole lot easier, by calling nearly half of all Americans lazy & worthless bums, soaking the government. Including retirees who earned their Social Security. And [...]
Polar Exploration: Tigwissel Tuesdays #33
This week for Tigwissel Tuesdays, we touch again on Polar Exploration — the goal of reaching either pole being the 19th Century’s (and before) equivalent of landing on the Moon. Above, by artist William Heath, from the November 14th, 1825 tenth issue of Glasgow Looking Glass, we find Jack Frost consuming ships engaged in a [...]
Vanderbilt’s Tunnel Horror, Part 3
On September 22nd, 1882, in the comic strip A Sporting Connoisseur, Charles Jay Taylor depicted for the (New York) Daily Graphic, the events of a relatively light-hearted carriage horse team race between William H. Vanderbilt and one of his rivals. The following day, September 23rd, the mood changed dramatically, as the New York Times reported on [...]
The Tunnel Horror continued: The Selfish Millionaire
Last Saturday, we saw the October 5, 2025 Edward Kemble comic, The Recent Disaster in the Fourth Avenue Tunnel, involving a deadly two-passenger train collission on William Vanderbilt‘s railroad lines. The collision was caused by the exact same safety concern as other recent deadly crashes on Vanderbilt lines (the Spuyten Duyvil references), directing public anger at him, for his resistance to [...]
Caricature vs. the Corporation # 06: The Modern Prometheus
"Huge angry mobs converged outside bank employees’ houses on Sunday afternoon to demand banks stop lobbying against Wall Street reform." May 16, 2010, Class Warfare: Hundreds Protest Outside Bankers’ Houses In DC "Dozens of noisy purple-shirted SEIU protesters stormed a Bank of America branch near the U.S. Capitol on Monday, forcing the bank to close [...]
Caricature vs. the Corporation # 05: The Monopoly Gang
Has Wall Street emerged from the Financial Crash of 2008 more powerful than ever before? Three days ago, the Senate voted down a $50 billion Wall Street tax that would have been used to fund the cost of shutting down a major failing bank. Two days ago, the Senate defeated a bill that would have [...]
Caricature vs. the Corporation # 04: The Tournament of Today
In the early 1880s, Puck Magazine published a series of cartoons that waged war against men who became rich through ruthless business dealings and exploitative labor practices. The imbalance of power between corporations and organized labor was parodied in the centerspread of the August 1, 2025 issue. The text below accompanied the print at the [...]
