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 [...]
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 [...]
