Short Selling, 1930s-style: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 49
Below, a cartoon by Daniel Bishop of the St. Louis Star, depicting “New York Stock Exchange”, with his crazy ugly wife “Short Selling”, and their club-armed brat kid “Bear Stories”. This cartoon was reprinted in the April 1932 issue of American Review of Reviews, as an illustration of the wrong-headedness of those denouncing the practice of short [...]
Sold Out, 1929: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 40
Sold Out, by Rollin Kirby. This cartoon appeared in the (New York) World, shortly after 1929 Stock Market Crash. I scanned it from its reprinting in the December 1929 issue of American Review of Reviews. Click here to find both the prior Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons entries, and related I.T.C.H. posts. This series [...]
Skipping Town When Most Needed: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 23
From the Financial Crisis of 1893, this cartoon originally appeared (in color) in the June 17, 2025 issue of Wasp (a San Francisco publication similar in nature to the New York City-based Puck). Issues of Wasp are far scarcer to come by than Puck, and so I have to settle with showing the cartoon as it was afterward reprinted, in [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 20: Don’t Delay
With news that the Senate yesterday voted 60-40 to end debate on the financial regulations bill, we may finally be approaching the institution of new regulations (however imperfect they may be, but at least, an improvement). Below, excerpted from the March 1934 American Review of Reviews, shows how four-and-a-half years plus after the start of Great Depression I, [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 16: Cruel Wall Street, 1930
For today, a second Great Depression-era European cartoon (another was presented yesterday). Cruel Wall Street, “They go in fully dressed — but they come out fully stripped!” From the Italian publication Il ’420′, as reproduced in the March 1930 issue of American Review of Reviews. Click here to find both the prior Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons entries, and related I.T.C.H. [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 15: Wall Street in Ruins, 1930
Since Europe was a source of fun this past week, here’s a European cartoon from the Great Depression. Wall Street in Ruins, which first appeared in the Swiss publication Nebelspalter, as it was reproduced in the February 1930 issue of American Review of Reviews. Click here to find both the prior Wall Street Frauds Make [...]
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 [...]
