The Fugitive Oil Magnates: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #115 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial
With Tax Day coming next week, I thought it would be fun to take a look at the Brothers Rockefeller — the powerful founders of the Standard Oil “trust” — and their efforts to avoid both income taxes, and, answering for their unfair business practices. When I first saw the above the above Robert Minor, [...]
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 [...]
Mobile Communications circa 1912: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 36 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial
For this week’s Tigwissel Tuesdays, we present an idea for mobile communications from artist Richard Keith Culver. Reprinted in the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, a month or two after its initial publication in the Los Angeles Express. Click on the above cartoon, to enlarge & view it in greater detail. Doug Wheeler ElectionComics
Bryan vs. the Democratic Machine: 1912 Democratic National Convention, Part 2: Cartoons Magazine Centennial
< In 1912, the Democratic nomination was up for grabs going into the Convention, and Wall Street moneyed interests made a play at aligning with the Party Bosses in general — and the corrupt Tammany Hall in particular — at getting in their man (Champ Clark). They’d already succeeded in having their puppet — Taft [...]
New Fangled Speed Machines: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 14 + September thru November 1912
Today’s posting is New Fangled Speed Machines, starting with the motorcycle daredevil above, in “One of Them”, by Ole May. Below, by John T. McCutcheon and others, aviation was frequently targeted along with the other new means of travel (automobiles, motorcycles) as vehicles of death. Both the above and below cartoons are extracted from the [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 11
It’s taken awhile, what with Teddy being the far more charismatic and fun candidate for cartoonists to depict, but, at last, with the August 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, we finally get a large round of Woodrow Wilson cartoons. Cartoonists include Frank Michael Spangler, John Campbell Cory, Richard Keith Culver, Ole May, Camillus Kessler… Click [...]
Bull Moose Convention, Day 1, August 5th, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, Sept 1912, Part 0
After delegates supporting Teddy Roosevelt walked out in protest at the Republican National Convention, they split away to form their own party — the Progressive Party, more popularly known as the Bull Moose Party. The Progressive Party quickly organized its own nominating convention, though the outcome of declaring T.R. as their candidate was a certainty. [...]
Panama Canal: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 2
By 1912, it became clear that the American effort to construct a canal across the Isthmus of Panama, was nearing completion after decades of work. With an actual end in sight — albeit two years yet to go — complaints from other shipping powers were already becoming loud, at America’s plans to allow American ships [...]
Winning It All to Lose It All, 1912 Republican National Convention, Part 3: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0.3
Our up-to-the-century coverage of Chicago’s 1912 Republican National Convention, continues with cartoons swiped from next month’s “future” — the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine! Above, cartoonist Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling shows Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft, late into the night, still playing their political game. Below, John Campbell Cory and Richard Keith Culver [...]
