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 [...]
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 [...]
General Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
As we approach Election’s end, I’m bringing in pages from the November as well as the October 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine, so post-Election, we’ll be free of politics for awhile. Today, pages addressing mostly the non-Presidential level of the 1912 Election. Above, from October 1912, art by William Kemp Starrett, Robert Satterfield, and Cy [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
From Cartoons Magazine issues of 1912, we have Presidential candidate Woodrow Wilson, depicted as either fighting monopolies (in the page from November 1912, below), or, slyly aligned with them (the above page, from October 1912). Art by Billy DeBeck, Robert Carter, Alfred West Brewerton, and Harry Osborn (above); and Jack Wilson, W.A. Ireland, Phil Porter [...]
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 [...]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
To close out this year’s Back-to-School run, above & below are a few pages that managed to escape my sweep of Cartoons Magazine, by hiding out in the November 1912 issue, way past when I would have thought that Back-to-School cartoons would have been running… Cartoonists above are: H.T. Webster, William Kemp Starrett, and Fontaine [...]
Three-Way Partying!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
We look back again to 1912, the year that America experimented with partying threeways! Added to spice things up between the longtime duo of Democratic and Republican parties, was the hot new star, the Progressive Party. Via the September 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, cartoons for and against Democrat Woodrow Wilson. Below, the same, [...]
V.P. Candidates: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, August 1912, Part 7
Above, from the August 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, a page of general politics, and a page on the three Vice Presidential candidates. Artists include Gaar Williams, Fontaine Fox, and William Kemp Starrett. To view the cartoons in detail and read their text, click on the above picture. Doug Wheeler ElectionComics
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 4 + Themes Revue
Above & below, from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, are a couple pages of cartoons on the subject of Women’s Suffrage. Above, American cartoons, including one by Robert Satterfield; beneath, two views from the Italian comic publication, Turin Fischietto. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
Birth of the Bull Moose Party, 1912 Republican National Convention, Part 5: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0.5
Breaking news, on the 1912 Presidential Election! The establishment G.O.P. Party Machinery, having chosen current President William Howard Taft as 1912 Republican nominee for the White House, in spite of the larger following amongst the Party, and the people generally, for former President Theodore Roosevelt, T.R. has decided to break with the Republican establishment, and [...]
