Women’s History Month: More American Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
As this year’s Women’s History Month coverage approaches its end, we have one more round of Women’s Suffrage cartoons from 1913 issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and better read the words within them. Above, from the May 1913 issue, artist Carey Orr depicts [...]
Women’s History Month: Suffrage Cartoons in America: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
It’s back to the American Women’s Suffrage Movement, for today’s Women’s History posting. Above, from the January 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, artists Fred C. Nash, James E. Murphy, and Billy DeBeck, on attitudes involving the movement. Beneath, from December 1912, cartoonist Fontaine Fox, displaying another attitude. Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
Castro Seeks Asylum in the U.S.!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial February 1913
Ousted Venezuelan President Cipriano Castro, that is. Cipriano Castro militarily seized the Presidency of Venezuela in 1899, reigning until, in 1908, he travelled to France to be treated for VD. (And why was France the place to go for this???). He left his fellow military coup compatriot & Vice-President, Juan Vicente Gomez in charge in [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, December 1912
From the December 1912 issue, we finish our coverage of the first year of Cartoons Magazine, with (appropriately enough) an assortment of cartoons on the humors of contemporary life. Above, a few Winter “Indoor Sports”, by H.T. Webster and Gaar Williams. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
Christmas Helping 1: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, December 1912
From the December 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, we comes a small helping of Christmas cartoons. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, by Frank Michael Spangler and H.T. Webster. Below, by George W. French. Above, William Kemp Starrett; below, O’Loughlin. Doug Wheeler Christmas [...]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
To close out this year’s Back-to-School run, above & below are a few pages that managed to escape my sweep of Cartoons Magazine, by hiding out in the November 1912 issue, way past when I would have thought that Back-to-School cartoons would have been running… Cartoonists above are: H.T. Webster, William Kemp Starrett, and Fontaine [...]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
We kick off our third annual Back-to-School Month cartoons, with pages on that theme, from the September 1912 (above) and October 1912 (all the pages below, except the last) issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Cartoons above & below by [...]
NYPD Becker Scandal, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 10 + September 1912 thru January 1913
Above, from the August 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, are cartoons by Charles Bowers and others — concerning corruption in the New York City Police Department in general, inspired by the case of police officer/criminal/convicted murderer Charles Becker (click on his name, to read about his case). Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
Swat That Fly!: Tigwissel Tuesdays #31: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 4
Above, the wrap-around cover from the 1930-published booklet, Health in Pictures, collecting public service comics & cartoons. The government telling people what to do for their health. You know — Socialism! — published during the reign of socialist dictator, uhmm… Herbert Hoover…??? Click on the above picture, to view the cover in more detail. Below, [...]
Broad Brush: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 22
From the April 1912 fourth issue of Cartoons Magazine, we present a few pages of miscellaneous topics. Above, Absolutely the Worst Yet by Fontaine Fox, on the difficulties of dealing with the modern day phone switch operator… Beneath, two problems actually little changed from 1912, one illustrated by H.T. Webster, and the other by Vie [...]
