Brain Surgery of 1892: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 48
From the June 22nd, 1892 issue of Fun magazine, comes “A Superfluity”, involving the consequences of a man’s brain operation. Click on the above comic, to view it in geater detail, and be able read its text. For prior postings involving comics & the advance of science, click on Tigwissel Tuesdays. Doug Wheeler BritFun
Tigwissel Tuesdays #40: Drinking Water, 1877
Today’s post, is for the combo of Halloween Eve, and certain extremists, salivating at the hope of achieving their cherished goal of eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency, the Food & Drug Administration, and any of those other oppressive government bureaus, whose regulations restrain the freedom of corporations doing as they please. May they cheer that [...]
Charles Darwin: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 34
I’ve been avoiding running these particular cartoons within Tigwissel Tuesdays‘s general mandate of reviewing comics parodying science, but given that the Anti-Science Party (also known as Republicans) is holding its national convention this week, I felt what better time to honor the G.O.P.’s 19th Century ideas, than with cartoons from the 19th Century making fun [...]
Tupper’s Tamed Gunpowder: Tigwissel Tuesdays #24
Above, “Flighty Philosphy; or, Tupper’s Tamed Gunpowder”, from the July 2nd, 1881 edition of the British humor weekly, Funny Folks. The cartoonist here is making fun of then recent comments by poet & philosopher Martin Farquhar Tupper, that manned flight might be achieved by means of electricity, which he had referred to as “tame gunpowder”. [...]
James Sullivan’s “The Book Borrower”, 1879
With Summer almost here, and Summer reading and the exchange of treasured books amongst trusted friends, nearly upon us, following is a short tale to make many a comic book collector cringe. The Book Borrower, by artist James Sullivan, from the July 2nd, 1879 issue of the British humor periodical, Fun. Enjoy! Click on picture, [...]
Buffalo Bill & Queen Victoria, at Her Golden Jubilee, 1887
Greetings everyone, and Happy Victoria Day! To which all dozen of our American readers are likely going, “Huh?”, but I’m sure our one reader each in Canada, Britain, and Australia, should be pleased that we’ve remembered them (those three are, after all, twenty percent of our audience)! Being American, we naturally have to twist this holiday honoring Queen [...]
