Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 5; Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 76
Our coverage of the centennial of Cartoons Magazine, continues with more extracts from the January 1912 debut issue. Above, adjust the $ amount mentioned, for 100 years worth of inflation, and this would make a perfect cartoon for the 99 versus 1 percent outcry, of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Beneath, one cartoon from several [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 4
Above, cartoons about the Democratic side of the 1912 Presidential race. Compared to the pages worth devoted to T.R. — and to President Taft’s worries about T.R. possibly running — the Democratic side was loaded with candidates (bottom left of the above page), including repeat candidate (and future anti-Evolution loon), William J. Bryan (bottom right, [...]
The Reformers’ Big Feed: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 3
Cartoons Magazine‘s centennial continues with still more extracts from its January 1912 first issue. Above, from the newspaper Denver Republican, we see a group of “reformers” engaged in what hardly looks like “reforming”. Below, Political News Faker, appropriately re-presented in time for the upcoming South Carolina primary, known for particularly dirty tricks played against opposing [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 2
We continue our celebration of the centennial of Cartoons Magazine, with more extracts from its January 1912 first issue. Today’s extracts involve sin (or, the 1912 idea of it), crime, and punishment. First, two anti-smoking cartoons. The top-most comic is a reprinted episode from The Outbursts of Everett True strip, by A.D. Condo. Below, the [...]
Daughters of the Revolution: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 74
With current Republican Presidential candidates calling for the elimination of all regulations on industry, including laws against child labor, we look at a couple cartoons created to shine light on the evils which the Republican Party wants to return us to. The title of Daughters of the Revolution, above, originally published in Life magazine, carries [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 1
Cartoons Magazine began its monthly run one hundred years ago. Review of Reviews, which began publication in January 1890, had for more than two decades presented a few pages every month collecting recent editorial cartoons from around the world (along with, mostly, recent text articles). Cartoons Magazine expanded upon those few pages, devoting the entire [...]
Cartoons Magazine 1912 Centennial, Part Zero
One of our Christmas presents today, is a preview of our upcoming monthly celebration of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial Year. Cartoons Magazine began publication in January 1912, reprinting the editorial cartoons of its day. Naturally, there was a delay of a month or two between a cartoon’s first appearance in the newspapers, and its re-presentation in [...]
More Cartoons the Tea Party Would Like to Bring Back
The basic theme today, is to run a few cartoons involving ills of the past, which were cured by government programs or agencies, which various Tea Party candidates have stated they would like to eliminate. It being Halloween, it also helps if Death just happens to be hanging around in the cartoon. (Exception, I did [...]
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 [...]
Roosevelt is a Red!
Does the below look familiar? Back in the days of Great Depression I, a constant refrain from the Republican Party was that President Franklin Roosevelt was a communist or a socialist, and that the United States had become a communist dictatorship, because Democrats were in power. The below left cartoon by Rollin Kirby, is from the mid-term elections [...]
