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 [...]
Women of the Future, as predicted in the Past…
For today’s Women’s History Month posting, our selected cartoons all purport to show the future results should women be granted equal rights. Such cartoons — drawn by men — were often used to express anti-suffrage viewpoints. The above cartoon posits that gaining the same rights as men had, would result in women sinking — in [...]
McFadden’s Row of Flats
In honor (a day early) of St. Patrick’s Day, a pair of (non-Outcault authorized) Yellow Kid ephemera. Above, a rear cover advertisement, found on the back of an 1890s music sheet, featuring an obvious Yellow Kid rip-off. Below, the front & back covers plus interior from a flyer advertising one (of several) theatrical versions of [...]
Roosevelt is a Red!
Does the below look familiar? Back in the days of Great Depression I, a constant refrain from the Republican Party was that President Franklin Roosevelt was a communist or a socialist, and that the United States had become a communist dictatorship, because Democrats were in power. The below left cartoon by Rollin Kirby, is from the mid-term elections [...]
Jay Gould, the King of the Robber Barons, Part 2
"… the Most Accomplished of All Modern Criminals … an Inspired Fiend … he had Not a Conception of a Moral Principle" Descriptions of Jay Gould by historians and biographers Click here to read Part 1 In the early 1880s, Jay Gould was engaged in a frenetic series of predatory transactions that gave him [...]
Caricature vs. the Corporation # 01: The Garden Party of the Monopolists by Joseph Keppler
“With its ruling today, the Supreme Court has given a green light to a new stampede of special interest money in our politics. It is a major victory for big oil, Wall Street banks, health insurance companies and the other powerful interests that marshal their power every day in Washington to drown out the voices [...]
It’s Cartoonists Day!
(click for a closer look) Today is Cartoonists’ Day and Dirk Deppy over at Journalista has a great take on it: “Today is also Go Down On A Cartoonist Day. If you know a cartoonist, are the gender that the cartoonist in question prefers and said cartoonist finds you attractive, then on this day you’re [...]
