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 [...]
Health Care
With the mostly right-wing appointed Supreme Court — complete with at least two Tea Party extremist members — bringing their supposedly “open minds” to the issue of Health Care, it seems like a good time to override what I’d planned to do, and instead run a few classic cartoons on this politicized subject. So enjoy! [...]
Who Should vs. Who Does Pay the Taxes: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 69
This week, as everyone should have expected from the start, the Congressional “Super Legion”… uh, “Injustice League”… er… “Committee“(??), came to zero agreement. Click on any of the pictures above and below, to view enlarged versions. Above, The End of a Bad Show, depicting the workings of the “Grand National Congressional Theatre”. Puck magazine’s mascot [...]
Unemployment
First up, the Wall Street Financial Reforms legislation was finally passed yesterday! That accomplished, the Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons series has reached its end. A concluding episode to wrap the series up will appear next week, using several of my scanned, but not yet posted, cartoons. The Monopolists series, the Charles Jay Taylor [...]
Tell the Banks You Must Have Money: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 53
From the December 12, 2025 issue of the New York comic weekly, Picayune, we have Female Financiering (okay, this was 1857). The situation here, during the Panic of 1857, is that the banks have closed, taking the depositors’ money with them. Click on picture, to open an enlarged version. Click here to find prior Wall Street Frauds Make [...]
The Childrens’ Point-of-View, 1857: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 44
Children will imitate what they see in their parents and the other adults around them, which is the point of these cartoons from the Panic of 1857, all three by artist Frank Bellew (Sr.). Below, Another Terrible Failure, from the (New York) Picayune, November 7, 1857. Next, Prevailing Complaint, from the December 1857 issue of [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 17: Frank Bellew’s Faces of the Panic, 1857 & 1873
This past Friday, we presented the monstrous Croesus figure by Frank Bellew, in a Daily Graphic cover concerning the Financial Panic of 1873. Today, another one of Frank Bellew‘s Panic of 1873 giant monsters: Panic, as a Health Officer, Sweeping the Garbage Out of Wall Street. The “garbage” includes such things as “Jay Gould’s Pledges“, “Speculative [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 10: Hard Times in Wall Street
With every past financial crisis, the editorial cartoons on the subject can be categorized into multiple recurring themes. One of these is the sarcastic “Think of what the poor blokes who work or invest on Wall Street are suffering”. This approach was more common in the 19th century, where the regular audience/buyers for comic periodicals, needed a modicum of wealth to afford the subscription to [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 06: The Merry Go Round of Life
This time out, some cartoons showing the effects, rather than crashes themselves. The Merry Go Round, by Harrison Cady, showing the rich partying on the backs of the working poor who support them — an appropriate image for today’s Wall Street, rescued by all of us, and now raking in huge profits, caring not for [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 05: “A Warning to Panic Breeders”
For today’s reminders of why Wall Street can’t be trusted on their word alone to learn from past mistakes - following are more cartoons showing past mistakes Wall Street failed to learn from… The first two cartoons below were published in the New York City comic periodical, The Picayune, following the Panic of 1857. Below, The Game of Panic, by Mortimer “Doesticks” Thomson, in [...]
