Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial July 1913
The July 1913 collection of Focus on Cartoonists pages from Cartoons Magazine, is a repeat of last month’s situation — wherein Cartoons Magazine had just changed both its sized and format, and the pages devoted to the cartoonists themselves, find themselves (temporarily) short changed. The pages have become more text than cartoon. The page below [...]
Marching Towards the Great War!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Our March Towards the Great War (World War I) — whose official start is just over a year away — continues, this time with cartoons involving what in retrospect, can be seen as a deliberate working towards war, instead of backing away from it. All of the cartoons in this post (except where stated otherwise) [...]
The Desperate React: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #114 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Above, Labor Unrest is Britain, depicted by artist W.A. Ireland, from the front cover of the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Due to the Julian Rule that the third month of every year ending in 13, must last two months to make up for the removal of the thirteenth month of Adar by Pope [...]
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 [...]
Three-Way Partying 2!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
Welcome back again, to a look at the days when Mr. & Mrs. America decided to flirt with threeways! Above, voters and Uncle Sam alike, find themselves tangled and rope bound with major Party Animals, the Democratic Donkey, Republican Elephant, and Progressive Party Bull Moose. Art by Bronstrup, Doc Hirer Finch, Harry J. Westerman, and [...]
Election Cash: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #101: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
The Supreme Court having thrown Campaign Reform laws back one hundred years or more, we take a look at the influence of corporate money on elections, one century past, via the the editorial cartoons found in the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, the front cover, with inset cartoon by Harry J. Westerman. Click [...]
