Travel via Vacuum Tube, 1825: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 47
Tigwissel Tuesdays resumes, with an extract from issue nine, October 1825, of the Glasgow, Scotland based Northern Looking Glass, with art by William Heath. Above, Heath parodies the proposal of a Vacuum Tube Company (which appeared in the January 29th, 1825 issue of The Mechanics Register), to transport passengers between Edinburgh, Scotland and London, England, [...]
March of Medical Science, Part 3: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 38
From issue eight of the Glasgow Looking Glass, September 17th, 1825, we have the third installment of artist William Heath‘s Essay on Modern Medical Education. Click on the above set of pictures, to enlarge it & view its details much better. To view the prior two installments, click here. And here, for previous postings of [...]
Polar Exploration: Tigwissel Tuesdays #33
This week for Tigwissel Tuesdays, we touch again on Polar Exploration — the goal of reaching either pole being the 19th Century’s (and before) equivalent of landing on the Moon. Above, by artist William Heath, from the November 14th, 1825 tenth issue of Glasgow Looking Glass, we find Jack Frost consuming ships engaged in a [...]
Glasgow Looking Glass/March of Medical Science, Part 2: Tigwissel Tuesdays #32
Today’s cartoons on modern science, come from the September 3rd, 1825 issue 7, of the Glasgow Looking Glass, serializing artist William Heath‘s Essay on Modern Medical Education. Above, the second serialized part; below, the earlier shown first serialized part, from issue 6, August 18th, 1825. Click on the above & below cartoon sequences, to enlarge [...]
Health Care
Today being the Supreme Court’s ruling on Health Care, I’ve quick thrown together a few related cartoons. Above, artist Syd Hoff‘s take on the Supreme Court, from his 1935 Great Depression I era book, The Ruling Clawss, collecting samples of his cartoons previously published in The Daily Worker. Click on the above & below cartoons, [...]
Numpskulls & Bumpskulls: Tigwissel Tuesdays #23
Today, a look a couple looks at Phrenology, the popular 19th century pseudo-scientific study of bumps on a person’s head to determine intelligence. Above, Scientific Society — Numpskulls and Bumpskulls, by artist William Heath, from the June 11th, 1825 first issue of the Glasgow Looking Glass. Beneath, from the February 28th edition of the British [...]
“Colonial Slavery”, 1830: African American History Month & Pre-YK Talkies
WARNING: The below comic strip contains racist imagery and slurs. Above, Colonial Slavery, by artist William Heath, from issue #8, August, 1830, of the British cartoon monthly, The Looking Glass. This comic strip parodies the hypocrisy of logic used by the British government, to exonerate the actions of British slave owners in their colony of [...]
Pre-YK Talkies: White-Bait, by William Heath, 1830
For today, a quick example of yet another “Pre-YK Talkie”. I.e., multi-panel sequential cartoons, told via a combination of pictures plus in-panel dialogue/word balloons, in which the story would not be understood without either the pictures or the in-panel dialogue. Like Donald Trump making claims without evidence or bothering to do research, numerous respected “comics historians” [...]
The Looking Glass on France’s 1830 July Revolution
This past April, another of SuperI.T.C.H’s contributors posted on the events of France’s July Revolution, and the involvement of cartoons in it. Click on Caricature vs. the Censor, Part 1, to read it. The July Revolution was triggered by ordinances which into effect 180 years ago today, on July 26, 1830. Across the English Channel, [...]
When Women Get the Vote
Florence Claxton’s 1870s comic book Adventures of a Woman in Search of Her Rights, which we presented the past four Mondays, was by far the exception to the kinds of cartoons on the subject, drawn, edited and published mostly by men, which were the norm. (Even Leslie Publications, run eventually by Frank Leslie’s widow, knew where its readership stood, [...]
