Marching Towards the Great War!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Our March Towards the Great War (World War I) — whose official start is just over a year away — continues, this time with cartoons involving what in retrospect, can be seen as a deliberate working towards war, instead of backing away from it. All of the cartoons in this post (except where stated otherwise) [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial May 1913
Above, a pair of short bios of William Kemp Starrett and Ernest E. Burtt, opens up our monthly Focus on Cartoonists, scanned from the May 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. The May 1913 Comment and Review page below, [...]
(Late) Arrival of Spring: Cartoons Magazine Centennial May 1913
With Summer officially arriving in another month, the time will soon be past for these Arrival of Spring cartoons, all from the May 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Above, Fred Morgan‘s cartoon, “Waking Him Up”, serves as the [...]
Cinco de Mayo: Mexican Revolution & Cartoons Magazine Centennials, 1913
For this year’s Cinco de Mayo, we have a number of cartoons that appeared in first half of 1913, in various newspapers, and from there were reprinted in Cartoons Magazine. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, February & March 1913 were particularly volatile. The occupants of the National Palace changed hands several times, inspiring the [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial April 1913
To Close out this year’s April Fools’ Month, we bring our focus not on fools, but on some of the orchestrators of fun — the cartoonists. Above and below are the pages concentrated on cartoonists, from the April 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, a brief auto bio written by artist Billy DeBeck, along with [...]
Theatrical Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
As shown in these cartoons, 1913 was a year in which puritanical America looked at all forms of theater — Vaudeville and silent cinema — as sources of sin, moral decay, and danger. Above, from when America had a patchwork of local censor boards, controlling movies, books, publications, and shows could be shown or sold [...]
Ohio River Flood: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
From Cartoons Magazine, we have coverage of the Ohio River Flood of 1913. Last Year’s Earth Day posting, however, included the Ohio River Flood of 1883, so doing so on that day would have been repetitious. Above, from the March 1913 issue, we have cartoons by Charles “Doc” Winner, Stinson, and Billy DeBeck Click on [...]
The Taxman Cometh: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Americans’ favorite day of the year has arrived – Income Tax Day!! Hurray! Above, from the April 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, artist W.A. Ireland’s depiction of our joy! Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Below, from June 1916, Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling shows [...]
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 [...]
