Marching Towards the Great War!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Our March Towards the Great War (World War I) — whose official start is just over a year away — continues, this time with cartoons involving what in retrospect, can be seen as a deliberate working towards war, instead of backing away from it. All of the cartoons in this post (except where stated otherwise) [...]
Cinco de Mayo: Mexican Revolution & Cartoons Magazine Centennials, 1913
For this year’s Cinco de Mayo, we have a number of cartoons that appeared in first half of 1913, in various newspapers, and from there were reprinted in Cartoons Magazine. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, February & March 1913 were particularly volatile. The occupants of the National Palace changed hands several times, inspiring the [...]
The Desperate React: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #114 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Above, Labor Unrest is Britain, depicted by artist W.A. Ireland, from the front cover of the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Due to the Julian Rule that the third month of every year ending in 13, must last two months to make up for the removal of the thirteenth month of Adar by Pope [...]
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 [...]
1913 Armory Show: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Today is the 100th anniversary of the opening International Exhibition of Modern Art (February 17th to March 15th, 1913) in New York City, better known as the 1913 Armory Show. Presenting Cubist & Futurist Art to the American public, its influence is regarded as a major turning point for American Art. Naturally, as seen in [...]
Nelson Harding 1912 Election Close Out
Today, we complete our extracts from artist Nelson Harding‘s collection, The Political Campaign of 1912 in Cartoons, with cartoons appropriate to the post-election (then & now). Some of these I’ve shown before, and some are new. The context below, is that in the 1912 Presidential Election, the Republican Party came in third place, behind the [...]
The Day is Here!!
All Hail! The Holy of Holies, the Day of Days, is Here at Last! The Day when Americans choose whom they wish to see their cartoonists and late night comedians make fun of for the next four years! My spittle spat, I’ve no poison left, just this final drip of non-partisan, de-venomized glad-it’s-almost-over, pap. (Don’t [...]
Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #104
Above, Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency, by artist Joseph Keppler, Sr., depicting Republican fund raisers in the guise of medieval clergy selling indulgences (i.e., back before/during Martin Luther, the church would sell tickets to Heaven, in which people could be absolved for any sin, for enough money “donated” to the church). Implied in [...]
Teddy Roosevelt Shot!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
On this date, one century ago, Presidential candidate Teddy Roosevelt was shot while on his way to giving a campaign speech, by would-be assassin John Flammang Schrank. Roosevelt was known for giving long-winded speeches, and it was the thick notes of his speech which slowed down the bullet enough, that T.R.‘s wound was not fatal. [...]
Election Cash: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #101: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
The Supreme Court having thrown Campaign Reform laws back one hundred years or more, we take a look at the influence of corporate money on elections, one century past, via the the editorial cartoons found in the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, the front cover, with inset cartoon by Harry J. Westerman. Click [...]
