The Desperate React: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #114 / Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Above, Labor Unrest is Britain, depicted by artist W.A. Ireland, from the front cover of the March 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Due to the Julian Rule that the third month of every year ending in 13, must last two months to make up for the removal of the thirteenth month of Adar by Pope [...]
Women’s History Month: Women’s Wages: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Wage Inequity between the sexes — still an issue being fought today — has likely been with us since the invention of money, though it is eye-brow raising to see that a century ago, when most women had yet to achieve even the right to vote, and when most men were receiving barely a subsistence [...]
Women’s History Month: Suffrage Cartoons in America: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
It’s back to the American Women’s Suffrage Movement, for today’s Women’s History posting. Above, from the January 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, artists Fred C. Nash, James E. Murphy, and Billy DeBeck, on attitudes involving the movement. Beneath, from December 1912, cartoonist Fontaine Fox, displaying another attitude. Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial February 1913
Cartoons Magazine continues its trend to expand its prose articles by and about cartoonists. Gathered here are all the articles from the February 1913 issue. Click on the above & below pages, to display them large enough to read. Above, artist William Kemp Starrett writes about a cartoonist’s day. Below, we have an article written [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #111
From Cartoons Magazine‘s February 1913 issue (above), and January 1913 (below), with the Taft Administration and out of the White House, Trusts/Monopolies of the Day worried that their days of brazen market manipulation would soon be at an end. (Of course, they weren’t — they perhaps just had to get a little more smarter & [...]
Marching Towards WW I: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1913
From the January 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, we have a few cartoons which we can recognize now as events that led towards World War I, though in their day, they were just more examples of European countries’ centuries of being unable to get along with each other. Above, on that issue’s cover, cartoonist W.A. [...]
William Jennings Bryan — Secretary of State: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Amongst the many positions which newly elected President Woodrow Wilson had to pick, was Secretary of State. Wilson, elected in November 1912, would not assume the Presidency until March 1913, and so had plenty of time to make his decisions — and took his time in announcing them. William Jennings Bryan, who had been the [...]
Wilson’s Inauguration: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
The first thing to understand about Woodrow Wilson‘s first inaugural, is that in his time, a President-Elect did not take office until March! Above, we have cartoons by Harry Murphy and Fontaine Fox — from the January 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine — making fun of the idea of moving the Inauguration Date earlier, into [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1913
We open our coverage of Cartoons Magazine‘s second year, with the January 1913 prose articles written by or about actual cartoonists of that time. Click on the above & below pages, to see/read larger versions. Above, a page on Edward S. Reynolds and his mascot character, “Tige”, who with time caused Reynolds to become better [...]
Christmas Helping 2: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1913
Today, from the January 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, we’ve a second helping of Christmas cartoons, that had spilled over into the next month’s issue. Above, Entitled to a Pension for his Christmas Shopping duties, by Herbert H. Perry. Below, a husband not deserving of a pension, depicted by O’Loughlin. Click on the above & [...]
