Pacific Meets Atlantic: Panama Canal, October 10th, 1913: Cartoons Magazine Centennial
One hundred years ago today, on October 10th, 1913, the final barrier separating waters from the Pacific and Atlantic sides of the Panama Canal, was removed, functionally completing it construction. Above, a cartoon by artist Harry Murphy, scanned here from the April 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine, anticipates this event. Below, by Elmer Donnell, from [...]
Immigration Fight of 1913: Cartoons Magazine Centennial
A week-and-a-half ago, after much debate, the U.S. Senate passed an Immigration Reform Bill which is pleasing to no one. This week, the House of Representatives — controlled by Republicans not, many of whom are opposed to the legislation, partially because it would bring in as voting citizens, mostly individuals who likely will not vote [...]
U.S. Recognition of the Chinese Republic / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
WARNING: The below posting includes racist imagery With Mainland China’s President Xi Jinping, today in the U.S. and meeting with President Obama, we look back one hundred years ago to the June 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine, whose front cover (above, with cartoon by Phil Porter) and 3-page article (further down below) involve the U.S. [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1913
We open our coverage of Cartoons Magazine‘s second year, with the January 1913 prose articles written by or about actual cartoonists of that time. Click on the above & below pages, to see/read larger versions. Above, a page on Edward S. Reynolds and his mascot character, “Tige”, who with time caused Reynolds to become better [...]
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 [...]
Military vs. Budget: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #105
So hey people, today we start out with cartoons on some actual warships, just a few years prior to 1916! And guess what, they were arguing back then, on whether they had enough ships! And just out, Mitt Romney’s newest round of advertisements, takes his penchance for lying to a whole new level. He has [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, October 1912
Welcome back again to another round of nostalgia for those Good Ol’ Days of one century ago, which we all so fondly remember from our youth (if you’re Methuselah, with selective amnesia). Courtesy of the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. And what would be the paradise of the Good Ol’ Days, without a snake [...]
Register to Vote in 1912!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, October 1912
Depending upon your state, you may still be able to Register to Vote, and make a difference in the Election of the Century, one century ago! From the October 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Cartoons by Lee Stanley, William Charles Morris, Charles Lewis Bartholomew (“Bart”), Tige Reynolds, and others. Click on the above & below [...]
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 [...]
