Regulation as Wall Street Pretends to See it: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #99
The wealthy crying that any laws restricting their reckless financial gambling (i.e., what gave us both the First and current Second Great Depressions), and doing anything they want to the benefit of their personal selves when it works — and to the harm of everyone else when it doesn’t — is “Socialist Tyranny”, is hardly [...]
Why Not Let Them Have It All?: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #98
Today, appropriate to this week’s Republican National Convention, with a born-into-riches millionaire Wall Streeter as the G.O.P. Presidential nominee, calling for still more tax breaks for most wealthy, paid for on the backs of everyone else, we have the Frederick Burr Opper cartoon, Let Them Have It All, and Be Done With It!. Appearing in [...]
James G. Blaine’s Olympus of Corruption & Tattooed Man Revue
In 1884, the Republican Party nominee for President was former Speaker of the House James Blaine. Blaine was the equivalent of today’s Newt Gingrich — known for his lies, corruption, and immorality. His nomination resulted in Republicans’ first post-Civil War loss of the Presidency. To hilight why Blaine shouldn’t become President, Puck magazine’s artists produced [...]
The Dollar or the Man?, Part 10: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons # 92
Above, the cover from Homer Davenport‘s 1900 cartoon collection, The Dollar or the Man?. Depicted are Uncle Sam and the common people, engaged in a tug-of-war against Republican National Chairman & Corporate Stooge, Mark Hanna (shown wearing a coat made of “$”-signs), and a the giant, brutish goliaths that Davenport typically used to symbolize the [...]
James G. Blaine’s “The Tattooed Man”: He Can’t Out Run His Record, July 30th, 1884
There may no longer be any urgency in pointing out the parallels between the corrupt & morally lacking present Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, and the G.O.P.’s 1884 Presidential nominee, James Blaine. But, having already dug out and scanned a large number of Blaine cartoons — including several in the twenty-two cartoon Tattooed Man series — [...]
W.H. Vanderbilt as Santa Claus: Episode 11, C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips
What better way to celebrate Christmas, than with one of the Nineteenth Century’s real Scrooges — monopolist & stock market manipulator William H. Vanderbilt — performing a hostile corporate takeover of the North Pole, and displacing that red-suited socialist Santa Claus with a Kringle who understands how the “free”-market is better when controlled, manipulated, and [...]
Episode 8.5: C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips
Today’s episode — A Disinterested Friend of the Public, from the front page of the May 2nd, 1882 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic — I’ve labeled Episode 8.5 (rather than “9″) of Charles Jay Taylor’s series of sequential comic strips starring William H. Vanderbilt, because it’s a single panel cartoon. But being produced by Taylor within [...]
Episode 8: 1881-82 Comic Strips Featuring William Vanderbilt, by C.J. Taylor: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 63
In Bon Voyage — Episode 8 of artist Charles Jay Taylor’s 1881-82 series of sequential comic strips starring railroad baron and stock market manipulator, William H. Vanderbilt, appearing on the front page of the April 22, 2026 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic - Vanderbilt is shown heading off for a trip to Europe, to [...]
Episode 7: C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 Comic Strips Featuring William Vanderbilt: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 60
In artist Charles Jay Taylor‘s seventh sequential comic strip starring monopolist & railroad baron William H. Vanderbilt, Taylor once again used an actual newspaper interview with Vanderbilt (in this case, with the New York Tribune) as his means of taking shots at Vanderbilt. In Mr. Vanderbilt’s Views, appearing on the front page of the March 25, 2026 [...]
Episode 6: C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 55
The March 17, 2026 front page of New York City’s Daily Graphic newspaper, featured artist Charles Jay Taylor’s sixth sequential comic strip with railroad baron and stock market manipulator William H. Vanderbilt. In this outing, Vanderbilt, shown wearing a sunflower and gone Aesthetic (per the Aesthetic Art Movement of the day) is holding a reception in his home, to show [...]
