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 [...]
Women’s History Month: British Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
While American Suffragettes were parading and demonstrating, their British counter-parts were adapting more radical tactics, such as throwing bricks through shop windows. What percent of British Suffragettes actually engaged in violent or destructive protest, versus non-violent demonstration, I don’t know. But even if just a small number, the anti-suffrage crowd on both sides of the [...]
Paying Tribute: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #103
Above, depicting rural and city workers handing over their wages and taxes in obeisance to the corporate monopolies, who rule via the sowrd of legislation, which they own/control. “History Repeats Itself. — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of To-Day”, by Samuel Ehrhart, from the centerspread of the November 6th, [...]
Summer Heat: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 13 + October 1912
From the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, proof that 100 years ago, it got warm in the Summer! Take that, believers in Global Warming! (P.S. — no need to compare the temperatures involved — these cartoons are “fact” enough! It got hot back then, okay? What do NASA and climate scientists know about planet-wide [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 12
For today, a potpourri from the June 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, on the wonders of our modern age! (Minus, roughly, a century…) Above, by John T. McCutcheon, The New Neighbors, having their belongings transported by a modern moving van with spoke-wheeled tires, rather than the traditional horse-and-wagon. Note also, the very latest in musical [...]
Winning It All to Lose It All, 1912 Republican National Convention, Part 3: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0.3
Our up-to-the-century coverage of Chicago’s 1912 Republican National Convention, continues with cartoons swiped from next month’s “future” — the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine! Above, cartoonist Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling shows Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, late into the night, still playing their political game. Below, John Campbell Cory and Richard Keith Culver [...]
General Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 2
About mid-month, we’ll reach the 100th Anniversary of the big political event of 1912 — the splintering of the Republican Party in two. So for this month’s coverage, I’m compressing all of Cartoons Magazine‘s pre-split political cartoons for June 1912 issue, into the first half of the month, beginning here with the overview of non-Presidential [...]
Good Ol’ Days : Cartoons Magazine Centennial, May 1912, Part 2
Today, from the May 1912 fifth issue of Cartoons Magazine, we have some instances of the Good Ol’ Days of 1912, including one (below) lamenting for the Good Ol’ Days of before… Above, cartoons on home gardening, from http://superitch.com/?s=%22Rollin+Kirby%22, Charles “Bart” Bartholomew, and others. Beneath, by Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling, a century-old view of “yesterday” [...]
William Howard Taft: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, March 1912, Part 9
We round out our extracts from the March 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, with everybody’s favorite fat President – Howard Taft! His rotundness may have inspired Taft’s depiction as a dirigible in the 2nd cartoon, on the above left-hand page. Next to it, same page, T.R. watches from a distance in the Fontaine Fox cartoon, [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 1
Cartoons Magazine began its monthly run one hundred years ago. Review of Reviews, which began publication in January 1890, had for more than two decades presented a few pages every month collecting recent editorial cartoons from around the world (along with, mostly, recent text articles). Cartoons Magazine expanded upon those few pages, devoting the entire [...]
