Women’s History Month: British Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
While American Suffragettes were parading and demonstrating, their British counter-parts were adapting more radical tactics, such as throwing bricks through shop windows. What percent of British Suffragettes actually engaged in violent or destructive protest, versus non-violent demonstration, I don’t know. But even if just a small number, the anti-suffrage crowd on both sides of the [...]
Santa by Auto: Tigwissel Tuesdays #44
Today, the March of Progress in Santa Transportation Technology, using cartoons from one page of a Victorian/Pre-Depression I Christmas Comics book I put together, for which the publishing deal fell through. As we can see by these cartoons, Santa is constantly looking to improve on his methods of Christmas Toy Delivery. By replacing his apparently [...]
Pre-WW I Europe: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, November 1912
Cartoons Magazine is primarily known today, for its publication of powerful images in cartoons reprinted from all sides during World War I, with the quality of its content in a constant decline after that war. Right now, in our Centennial coverage, we’re entering a lull period in the magazine, with the 1912 Election finished, and [...]
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 [...]
European Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 13
We conclude our review of the June 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, with samples of the European cartoons found within. Above, French humor publication Le Rire, depicts the roughly three month 1912 trip of Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, in France. Below, commentary involving Americans, from Italy, France, and Hungary. Click on the above & [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 12
For today, a potpourri from the June 1912 edition of Cartoons Magazine, on the wonders of our modern age! (Minus, roughly, a century…) Above, by John T. McCutcheon, The New Neighbors, having their belongings transported by a modern moving van with spoke-wheeled tires, rather than the traditional horse-and-wagon. Note also, the very latest in musical [...]
Taft vs. T.R.: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 8
Next week, our Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year coverage will be dominated by the Republican’s disastrous 1912 Convention — in what still ranks as the largest convention fight in American History. So, in preparation for that, today we feature the final bits of satirized pre-Party Split acrimony between William Howard Taft and Teddy Roosevelt, in Cartoons [...]
Exhibition: Victorian Narrative Stereography: 1855 - 1910
Tonight, February 3rd, from 4 to 7 pm, will be a reception for the gallery exhibit, Victorian Narrative Stereography: 1855-1910, at the Little Gallery of Sage College of Albany. It is located on campus, in Rathbone Hall, 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY. Afterwards, the exhibit will be open thru February 26, Sunday - Friday, [...]
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 [...]
