Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial April 1913
To Close out this year’s April Fools’ Month, we bring our focus not on fools, but on some of the orchestrators of fun — the cartoonists. Above and below are the pages concentrated on cartoonists, from the April 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, a brief auto bio written by artist Billy DeBeck, along with [...]
The Taxman Cometh: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Americans’ favorite day of the year has arrived – Income Tax Day!! Hurray! Above, from the April 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, artist W.A. Ireland’s depiction of our joy! Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Below, from June 1916, Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling shows [...]
The Fugitive Oil Magnates: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #115 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial
With Tax Day coming next week, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the Brothers Rockefeller — the powerful founders of the Standard Oil “trust” — and their efforts to avoid both income taxes, and, answering for their unfair business practices. When I first saw the above the above Robert Minor, [...]
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 [...]
Makin’ Links # 173
Over at Steve Does Comics, Steve (not me) gives a belated post-mortem review to the fondly recalled but not really all that good Atlas line of comics from the seventies, particularly Tiger-Man. http://stevedoescomics.blogspot.com/2010/04/tiger-manatlas-comicsmartin-goodman.html Here’s a thoroughly pointless but nonetheless amusing look at Marvel Comics’ tendency to print almost single color-particularly red-covers throughout the early 1970′s. [...]
April 15th…
Some things never change. We might view these old cartoons from a different perspective, but they still deliver their message. Click on any picture, to see an enlarged version. Still Working at It? Puzzling It Out by Hy Gage Philadelphia Press, April, 1914 Them Poor Rich Folk. A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned by Richard [...]
