World Series Baseball: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
This being Day One of the World Series, we look back to the Series of a century ago, with help from the November 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, struggling to keep one’s hands on the news of [...]
Baseball: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 2
Cartoons Magazine‘s Summer series of Baseball cartoons continues, with extracts from the July 1912 issue. Above, Clare Briggs on when the Washington team moved. Below, Briggs again, and John Campbell Cory. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Doug Wheeler
Sports: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, April 1912, Part 16
Sports, which in the April 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, basically boils down to baseball (above), and boxing (below). Amongst the artists of note to be found in the above baseball section, are Clare Briggs and W.A. Ireland. While below, a typically racist depiction of boxing champion Jack Johnson, who whites resented for disproving their [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 1
We continue our celebration of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial, with the first of several extracts from its second issue, of February 1912. One notable addition from issue one, is a monthly focus hilighting specific cartoonists. This month, the spotlight is placed on John T. McCutcheon. McCutcheon created the above cover, depicting cartoonists of different nationalities drawing [...]
Sports & Concrete Furniture: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 7
WARNING: Some of the below cartoons contain racist imagery and slurs. We close out our extracts from the January 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, with Sports, and Concrete Furniture. Yes, concrete furniture. When I spotted the first cartoon above, I at first thought this was a totally fascetious joke. Then I noticed a second concrete [...]
Baseball 1887: Puck’s Library #1
Today being the start of the World Series, we present excerpts from the first issue of Puck’s Library, published July, 1887, titled The National Game. Puck’s Library was a monthly magazine, which each issue collected and reprinted cartoons from the weekly Puck, centered on a common theme. Whereas Puck was dominated by its political cartoons, Puck’s Library deliberately stayed away from political [...]
Billy Ireland’s “Teck Haskins” 1909
Our posting today takes inspiration from two seemingly unrelated events occuring later this week: the Major League Baseball Championships leading up to the World Series, and the 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum (being held October 14 - 17). Billy Ireland was a college student at [...]
