Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial June 1913
With the June 1913 issue, Cartoons Magazine made its first major format change. Most immediately obvious, is its reduction in size — shown above, side-by-side, are the May & June issues. While Cartoons Magazine explained this change as having been requested by its readers, I’d far more believe it was because the smaller format was [...]
Wall Street Buys the Elections: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #109
Above, the front cover of the September 26th, 1896 issue of Up-To-Date. Titled Man and Master, it depicts Corporate Power dictating to workers how they should vote. Art by Champe. Beneath, The Vote That Elects Our President — being the signature in a checkbook, given by the wealthy/corporations, to fund the political campaign they favor [...]
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 [...]
Paying Tribute: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #103
Above, depicting rural and city workers handing over their wages and taxes in obeisance to the corporate monopolies, who rule via the sowrd of legislation, which they own/control. “History Repeats Itself. — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of To-Day”, by Samuel Ehrhart, from the centerspread of the November 6th, [...]
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! [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 1
Cartoons Magazine began its monthly run one hundred years ago. Review of Reviews, which began publication in January 1890, had for more than two decades presented a few pages every month collecting recent editorial cartoons from around the world (along with, mostly, recent text articles). Cartoons Magazine expanded upon those few pages, devoting the entire [...]
The Worship of Wealth: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 72
Above, The Worship of Wealth, from My Sketch Book, an 1834 to 1836 published collection of George Cruikshank cartoons. Depicting the Slaves of Mammon (which was well understood in that day, to mean the Worshippers/Slaves of Property, Wealth, and Greed). Click on the above & below cartoons, to make them large enough to read. Below, [...]
The Flies to the Spider: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 66
Above, The Flies Got Wise, from the January 22nd, 1913 issue of Puck magazine, proposing a public that has finally got wise to the Wall Street’s traps. Of course, we know this 1913 cover is pure fantasy — the public has since been ripped off, again and again. Below, a re-presentation of two cartoons from [...]
And the Beat Goes On…
A couple images appropriate to today… The Merry Go Round, by Harrison Cady, showing the rich partying on the backs of the working masses, published in 1912, in Life magazine… Click on the below picture, to see an enlarged version. And, from Great Depression I, The Biggest Loafer of Them All by Jay Norwood “Ding” [...]
Buying Congress
Thanks to “Citizens United”, a secretly funded group whose petition before our conservative activist Supreme Court, resulted a century’s worth of election reforms being thrown away, corporations have free reign to anonymously use all the money they wish to, to influence elections. Corporations do not spend money unless they believe it will profit them. They are [...]
