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) [...]
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 [...]
Women’s History Month: Women’s Wages: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Wage Inequity between the sexes — still an issue being fought today — has likely been with us since the invention of money, though it is eye-brow raising to see that a century ago, when most women had yet to achieve even the right to vote, and when most men were receiving barely a subsistence [...]
Marching Towards the Great War!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial February 1913
The February 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine contained a small handful of cartoons, foreshadowing the approaching “Great War”, WW I. Here they are. Above, “Insatiable”, by Barnett of the Los Angeles Tribune. Below, ‘London “Pulls the Strings”‘, by E.T. Reed in the London Bystander. Click on the above & below pictures, to view them in [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, November 1912
For our November entry of our monthly Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year Good Ol’ Days posting, we start with a page not appropriate to our times… But, then, these are supposed to be the “Good Ol’ Days”. Art above by Guy Spencer, Rogers, Ernest E. Burtt, and others. Below, a page appropriate to all times, Good [...]
Teddy Roosevelt: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
As we approach the Grand Finale of our political circus, SuperI.T.C.H. strives to keep you up on every twist & turn — from one century ago. Today our focus swings back to former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt, seeking to return for a third term. He was running against not only the Democrats, but also against [...]
Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #104
Above, Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency, by artist Joseph Keppler, Sr., depicting Republican fund raisers in the guise of medieval clergy selling indulgences (i.e., back before/during Martin Luther, the church would sell tickets to Heaven, in which people could be absolved for any sin, for enough money “donated” to the church). Implied in [...]
Buying Congress
Thanks to “Citizens United”, a secretly funded group whose petition before our conservative activist Supreme Court, resulted a century’s worth of election reforms being thrown away, corporations have free reign to anonymously use all the money they wish to, to influence elections. Corporations do not spend money unless they believe it will profit them. They are [...]
