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, [...]
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 [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #112 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial February 1913
From the February 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine, above & top, we have “Catching Them With the Goods” by artist James E. Murphy, depicting Wall Street up to one of the dirty tricks it still today attempts to pull. On the below half of the page, in “What Do the Tea Leaves Show?” by cartoonist [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #111
From Cartoons Magazine‘s February 1913 issue (above), and January 1913 (below), with the Taft Administration and out of the White House, Trusts/Monopolies of the Day worried that their days of brazen market manipulation would soon be at an end. (Of course, they weren’t — they perhaps just had to get a little more smarter & [...]
Ally Sloper, 1867: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #110
Above, from the August 14th, 1867 issue of British comic weekly magazine, Judy, we have the debut sequential comics appearance of writer/artist Charles H. Ross’ continuing comics character, Ally Sloper. Being the scheming swindler type (albeit, never any good at it), it’s appropriate that Ally’s first misadventure would involve an investment/banking swindle, of the type [...]
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 [...]
The Dollar or the Man?, Part 13: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #108
Above, the title page from Homer Davenport‘s 1900 cartoon collection, The Dollar or the Man?. Davenport’s series’ title, derives from a quote from Abraham Lincoln — “Both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.” In the title page cartoon, we see Republican operative/money man Senator Mark Hanna, [...]
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 [...]
Child Labor: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #106
With some Tea Party Republican extremists calling for the elimination of regulations, going so far as to eliminate regulations against Child Labor — and, with the possibility of a Republican President who allow this and other extremist legislation from a Republican Congress to pass without a veto — we take a look at a few [...]
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 [...]
