1881-82 Comic Strips featuring William Vanderbilt, Episode 5: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 47
In the years 1881 and 1882, artist Charles Jay Taylor created a series of approximately one dozen sequential comic strips featuring monopolist and stock market manipulator, William H. Vanderbilt. These appeared on the front page of the New York City’s Daily Graphic newspaper, usually with a gap of months between each stand-alone episode. To find the prior episodes, click here. [...]
Humors of the Great Wall Street Panic, 1873: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 45
From the September 26, 2025 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic, comes Humors of the Great Wall Street Panic, by C.J. Taylor. One of our two favorite latter 19th century stock manipulators — Jay Gould — is prominent amongst the targets here again. The top left cartoon shows a man running forward, pistols out. He passes a [...]
C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 Comic Strips starring William Vanderbilt, Episode 4: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 42
In Episode Four artist Charles Jay Taylor penchance again turns a newspaper interview with William H. Vanderbilt, into sequential comic strips, wherein the visuals question the veracity of what Vanderbilt has said - and raise why the reporter wasn’t tougher in his interrogation of Vanderbilt. (No, this isn’t what Taylor did in all the episodes — he moves away [...]
C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 Comic Strips starring William Vanderbilt, Episode 3: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 41
Between 1881 and 1882, artist Charles Jay Taylor created approximately a dozen sequential comic strips, starring stock market manipulator / railroad monopolist William H. Vanderbilt. To find the prior episodes, click here. Today’s outing - The Substance of Things Hoped For — The Evidence of Things Not Seen. In this episode, Vanderbilt and his organization are attempting to manipulate [...]
C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips, Episode 2: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 38
Today we present, Episode Two of artist Charles Jay Taylor’s 1881-82 sequential comic strips featuring the notorious Wall Street manipulator and railroad monopolist, William H. Vanderbilt. Today’s episode, titled Mr. Vanderbilt Has Returned from Europe, appeared on the front page of the June 3, 2025 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic. Like Episode One, this [...]
C.J. Taylor’s William Vanderbilt Comic Strips, 1881-82, Episode 1: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 37
Below, the March 11, 2026 cover page of the (New York) Daily Graphic — the first of approximately a dozen sequential strips by artist Charles Jay Taylor, appearing in the Daily Graphic in 1881 and 1882, and featuring William H. Vanderbilt as the main character. In this outing — titled Our Captious Artist’s Interpretation of a [...]
C.J. Taylor’s William Vanderbilt Comic Strips, 1881-82, Episode 0: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 36
In the years 1881 and 1882, artist Charles Jay Taylor created a series of approximately one dozen sequential comic strips featuring monopolist and stock market manipulator, William H. Vanderbilt, as the main character. These appeared on the front page of the (New York) Daily Graphic, usually with a gap of months between each stand-alone episode. So far as I [...]
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 [...]
Medicinal Tobacco Cures Love-Sickness & Promotes Marriage!
Another heroic example of Romance saved by a commercial product! This circa 1870s fold-out comic strip giveaway promoting Jackson’s Best chewing tobacco, is suspected to be the work of comic artist Charles Jay Taylor (its art style is similar to his at this point in time). Taylor is best remembered for his later work in Puck Magazine. If not for [...]
