Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Before we reach month’s end, it’s time we review the Focus on Cartoonists pages from the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, Robert Minor, Jr. writes about the cartoonist’s art. Click on the above & below pagees, to enlarge and read them. Below, Henry C. Williamson continues his series on 19th century cartooning, writing [...]
Wall Street Buys the Elections: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #109
Above, the front cover of the September 26th, 1896 issue of Up-To-Date. Titled Man and Master, it depicts Corporate Power dictating to workers how they should vote. Art by Champe. Beneath, The Vote That Elects Our President — being the signature in a checkbook, given by the wealthy/corporations, to fund the political campaign they favor [...]
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 [...]
Baseball 1887: Puck’s Library #1
Today being the start of the World Series, we present excerpts from the first issue of Puck’s Library, published July, 1887, titled The National Game. Puck’s Library was a monthly magazine, which each issue collected and reprinted cartoons from the weekly Puck, centered on a common theme. Whereas Puck was dominated by its political cartoons, Puck’s Library deliberately stayed away from political [...]
In Conclusion (For Now): Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 64
Above, Uncle Takes the Boys’ Bones by Daniel Fitzpatrick, published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as soon after reprinted in the April 1934 issue of American Review of Reviews. Well, it took longer than we’d hoped it would take, and the resultant legislation is not perfect, but today, President Obama signs the latest financial crisis-inspired [...]
“Receivership — Where Does the Money Go?”, 1879: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 32
This July 9, 2025 cartoon by artist James Wales, appeared on the rear cover of Puck magazine. Titled, Receivership — Where Does the Money Go?, it questions the disappearance of money occuring in frequent bank and insurance company collapses of the day. Click on picture, to see an enlarged version. Below, is the article that [...]
