Christmas Waifs 6
We return with another Michael Woolf cartoon — Only a Dream — from the December 1899 Waifs issue of Judge’s Library. Click on the above cartoon, to view a larger version. To find previous posts involving Christmas Comics, click here. Doug Wheeler Christmas Comics WaifComics JudgeMag
Christmas Waifs 2
We return with another Michael Woolf cartoon, this time scanned from his 1896-published collection, 99 “Woolf’s” from Truth (reprinting comics that had appeared first in the weekly Truth magazine). Woolf, whose cartoons began appearing in the 1850′s, is remembered best for his sympathetic depictions of New York City’s slum-children. Click on the above cartoon, to [...]
Christmas Waifs 1
Above, Her Small Wish, from the December 1899 issue of Judge’s Library. A monthly magazine, Judge’s Library reprinted material from earlier issues of Judge, organizing each issue by a theme. The December 1899 issue’s title theme was Waifs, and was dominated by the cartoons of Michael Woolf, whose work began appearing in the 1850′s. He [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
