Changing Weather: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
Being that time of the year for a change in the weather, we look today at cartoons on that subject, from the October & November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, we have art by Herbert H. Perry, [...]
Teddy Roosevelt: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
As we approach the Grand Finale of our political circus, SuperI.T.C.H. strives to keep you up on every twist & turn — from one century ago. Today our focus swings back to former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt, seeking to return for a third term. He was running against not only the Democrats, but also against [...]
Three-Way Partying 3!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
Back yet again with our up-to-the-century election coverage, via the October and November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, from back in the days when insurgent forces inside the Republican Party split it in two, giving us a major three-way race, plus hope to minor parties that their day might finally be arriving. Above, cartoons involving [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 11
We close the July 1912 review of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial Year, with a potpourri of Old Time Toons. Above, Fontaine Fox making fun of the Ice Delivery Man — from a time when daily delivered blocks of ice, was how ice boxes (home refrigerators) “worked”. Below, James H. Donahey and others, on modern romance… Click [...]
Fourth of July Fireworks: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 0.1 + Others
Appropriate for the day, a few cartoons focused on fireworks and their danger. Above, from the Election of 1884, and the July 2nd, 1884 rear cover of Puck magazine, artist Frederick Burr Opper depicts G.O.P. Presidential candidate James G. Blaine as a flashy, rising firework, in He Goes Up Like a Rocket, and He Will [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 5
Above, from the June 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, cartoonists Charles Bowers, R.D. Handy, and others, depict the efforts by others to prevent Woodrow Wilson from winning the Democratic nomination for President. Of particular interest, is Handy’s depiction of William Randolph Hearst as the Yellow Kid (an dress cartoonists had been sticking Yellow Kid‘s publisher [...]
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 [...]
International Affairs: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 23
Closing out our run of the fourth issue of Cartoons Magazine — April 1912 — we have a collection of cartoons covering various foreign affair subjects. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, a set concerning the Panama Canal, which was still under construction, [...]
