The Year in Review: 1912
So okay, I’m running one hundred years late. At least it’s not 101! Below, click on any cover from Cartoons Magazine‘s first year of publication — 1912 — to find postings from that particular month’s edition. January 1912, Volume One, Number One… February 1912, Volume One, Number Two… March 1912, Volume One, Number Three… April [...]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
We kick off our third annual Back-to-School Month cartoons, with pages on that theme, from the September 1912 (above) and October 1912 (all the pages below, except the last) issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Cartoons above & below by [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 11
We close the July 1912 review of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial Year, with a potpourri of Old Time Toons. Above, Fontaine Fox making fun of the Ice Delivery Man — from a time when daily delivered blocks of ice, was how ice boxes (home refrigerators) “worked”. Below, James H. Donahey and others, on modern romance… Click [...]
Passing of Party Bosses (yeah, right): Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 10
From the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine — optimistic exhuberance about how, in 1912, the introduction of direct voting for candidates in primary, would lead to the elimination of Party Bosses ignoring the voters, and nominating who the establishment wanted. Of course, we still have Party Operatives, who influence results, albeit slightly more subtly. [...]
Waiter’s Strike: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 9
Above, the largest crisis to hit the world in 1912, was apparently the New York City Waiter’s Strike! Or at least, the cartoons gathered together in the two pages above — from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine — are simply too interesting to skip over… Amongst the cartoonists traumatized at the thought of [...]
Olympic Games: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 8
For Opening Day of the London Olympics, we have a few cartoons from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, Uncle Sam, tired of the dirty sport of politics, looks forward to a diversion of the “clean sports” of the Olympics. Below, a rather racist cartoon involving Native American athlete, Jim Thorpe. Click on [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #94: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 7
Nearly every monthly issue of Cartoons Magazine featured pages on the abuses, and battles against, unfettered, monopolistic corporate power. In 1912 U.S., regulations to attempt to reign in the abuses which the people well knew, had only recently been passed. Politicians and officials who want to implement those regulations, struggled with other politicians and officials, [...]
Woodrow Wilson: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 6
Above, we resume our up-to-the-century Election Year coverage, from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, with cartoons involving Democratic candidate for President, Woodrow Wilson. Art by Alfred West Brewerton, Robert Minor, Jr., and Arthur V. Buel. Click on the above picture, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Doug Wheeler ElectionComics
The 1912 Cuban Intervention: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 5
WARNING: Contains racist imagery! Extracted from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, the above two pages preceded the 1912 U.S. Invasion/Intervention of Cuba, to put down an armed uprising of Afro-Cubans, who were rebelling against discrimination and poor living conditions. The uprising was known in Cuba as the “Little Race War”, and was led [...]
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 4 + Themes Revue
Above & below, from the July 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, are a couple pages of cartoons on the subject of Women’s Suffrage. Above, American cartoons, including one by Robert Satterfield; beneath, two views from the Italian comic publication, Turin Fischietto. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and [...]
