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 [...]
Blaine Eating Crow
Above, the centerspread cartoon from the November 26th, 1884 issue of Puck magazine, by artist Bernhard Gillam. Titled, Thanksgiving Day, 1884 — “Let Us Be Thankful!”, referring to the nation being thankful that former Speaker of the House, James G. Blaine, had failed in his bid for the Presidency. We can also be thankful, that [...]
Closing Out James G. Blaine’s “Tattoed-Man” series, 1884
Election’s done, but I’ve a few “Tattooed Man” cartoons not yet shown, to run. So let’s get them out of the way. Those of you who have been visiting this site, already know what these are about. But, for anyone just now stumbling in… James Blaine was the G.O.P. nominee for President in 1884. He [...]
“Tattooed-Man” Series, 1884 + “Blaine Language”, 1888 (Part 3)
Above, The Honor of the Country in Danger, by artist Bernhard Gillam. The centerspread cartoon in the October 29th, 1884 issue of Puck magazine, this was part of the “Tattooed Man” Series, it is one of twenty-two cartoons which ran in Puck in 1884, satirizing the candidacy for President of Republican Maine Senator, James G. [...]
Blaine Bits
Usually, when we’ve posted cartoons involving James G. Blaine — the corrupt Speaker of the House from Maine, reknowned for his flagrant and brazen lying, who was the G.O.P.’s 1884 Presidential nominee — they’ve been the large color cartoons positioned in the front, rear, and center of Puck magazine. Puck‘s pages between the color cartoons, [...]
“Blaine Language”, 1888, Part 2
Today, Part 2 of our extracts from the extremely rare 1888-published comic book Blaine Language from Truthful Blaine, with text by Henry Liddell and art by G. Roberty, and published by Paquet & Co., New York. Blaine Language satirizes James G. Blaine, widely known for his corruption and brazen lying, who was the 1884 Republican [...]
“Blaine Language”, 1888, Part 1
For today’s post, a treat, whether you agree with or despise my political bent. The first excerpt from the incredibly rare 1888-published comic book, Blaine Language, satirizing 1884 G.O.P. Presidential nominee, James G. Blaine. Blaine was reknowned for being an outrageously brazen liar, supporter of monopolies, and corrupt. While the corruption aspect of Blaine’s character [...]
James G. Blaine’s “Tattooed-Man”, September 24th, 1884: Money Will Be Vindicated
Above, by artist Bernhard Gillam, from the centerspread of the September 24th, 1884 issue of Puck magazine, we have the 1884 G.O.P. Presidential-nominee, James Blaine, featured in the cartoon Blaine Will Be Vindicated in November. The cartoon is a play on an argument given by the N.Y. Tribune (then a Republican mouthpiece newspaper, twisting and [...]
James G. Blaine’s / G.O.P.’s Road Built of Lies, October 1888
Above, the centerspread cartoon from the Ovtober 10th, 1888 issue of Puck magazine. Titled They Can’t Travel Much Further on a Road Built of Lies and Misrepresentations, by artist Louis Dalrymple, it depicts a G.O.P. procession across a rickety bridge, built of wooden planks with labels such as “Misleading Statements”, “Forged Quotations”, “Untruths”, “Falsehoods”, etc. [...]
The Working Man’s Friend
So okay, I had planned to introduce this set of cartoons this month anyway, but Mitt Romney just two days ago made all my intros for the next month-and-a-half, a whole lot easier, by calling nearly half of all Americans lazy & worthless bums, soaking the government. Including retirees who earned their Social Security. And [...]
