Wall Street Buys the Elections: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #109
Above, the front cover of the September 26th, 1896 issue of Up-To-Date. Titled Man and Master, it depicts Corporate Power dictating to workers how they should vote. Art by Champe. Beneath, The Vote That Elects Our President — being the signature in a checkbook, given by the wealthy/corporations, to fund the political campaign they favor [...]
Wall Street Panics & Collapses: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #107
Using mostly cartoons shown over the course of our Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons run, plus a scattering of a few new ones, we have a brief review in pictures, of Wall Street Crashes & Panics, from mid-19th Century, up through Great Depression I. The upcoming election pits one candidate who is a millionaire [...]
Living Truths of Nature, 1890: Tigwissel Tuesdays #35
Last week, during the Anti-Science Party’s (G.O.P.’s) National Convention, we ran anti-Darwin cartoons for our Tigwissel Tuesdays entry. This week, to clean the taste of that dirty deed from our mouths, we have Puck Presents Archdeacon Farrar’s New Year’s Hint — A Needed Course of Instruction for Our Religious Instructors. Click on the above cartoon, [...]
W.H. Vanderbilt as Santa Claus: Episode 11, C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips
What better way to celebrate Christmas, than with one of the Nineteenth Century’s real Scrooges — monopolist & stock market manipulator William H. Vanderbilt — performing a hostile corporate takeover of the North Pole, and displacing that red-suited socialist Santa Claus with a Kringle who understands how the “free”-market is better when controlled, manipulated, and [...]
Buffalo Bill & Queen Victoria, at her Golden Jubilee, 1887
For those who may have missed it, we re-present for Native American Heritage Month an article from this past Spring, on how comic periodicals covered the 1887 tour of England by Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show. Bill and his show, filled with Native Americans, had been sent as America’s main contribution to the celebrations of [...]
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 [...]
Episode 10.5: C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips: “The Public Be Damned!”, Part 2
From the October 18th, 1882 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic, artist Charles Jay Taylor takes a second poke at William Vanderbilt, for his “The public be damned” comment. (To see the first poke, click here.) Taylor shows Vanderbilt standing atop a pyramid of human beings, whose efforts support him. His trains are approaching from all directions, entering [...]
Episode 10: C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips: “The Public Be Damned!”, Part 1
The past two weekends, we saw comics about The Disaster in the Fourth Avenue Tunnel, wherein William Vanderbilt is confronted with the collision of two passenger trains on his railroad lines, with resultant death and injuries. His reluctance to spend money on safety measures — as doing so would cut into profits — were blamed as the cause (an [...]
C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips, Episode 9
To recap what this series is, for those who may just be finding this website… In the years 1881 and 1882, artist Charles Jay Taylor created a series of approximately one dozen sequential comic strips featuring as the main character, railroad monopolist and stock market manipulator, William H. Vanderbilt. These appeared on the front page [...]
Episode 8.5: C.J. Taylor’s 1881-82 William Vanderbilt Comic Strips
Today’s episode — A Disinterested Friend of the Public, from the front page of the May 2nd, 1882 issue of the (New York) Daily Graphic — I’ve labeled Episode 8.5 (rather than “9″) of Charles Jay Taylor’s series of sequential comic strips starring William H. Vanderbilt, because it’s a single panel cartoon. But being produced by Taylor within [...]
