Cinco de Mayo: Mexican Revolution & Cartoons Magazine Centennials, 1913
For this year’s Cinco de Mayo, we have a number of cartoons that appeared in first half of 1913, in various newspapers, and from there were reprinted in Cartoons Magazine. In the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1920, February & March 1913 were particularly volatile. The occupants of the National Palace changed hands several times, inspiring the [...]
Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial April 1913
To Close out this year’s April Fools’ Month, we bring our focus not on fools, but on some of the orchestrators of fun — the cartoonists. Above and below are the pages concentrated on cartoonists, from the April 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, a brief auto bio written by artist Billy DeBeck, along with [...]
Theatrical Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
As shown in these cartoons, 1913 was a year in which puritanical America looked at all forms of theater — Vaudeville and silent cinema — as sources of sin, moral decay, and danger. Above, from when America had a patchwork of local censor boards, controlling movies, books, publications, and shows could be shown or sold [...]
The Taxman Cometh: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Americans’ favorite day of the year has arrived – Income Tax Day!! Hurray! Above, from the April 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, artist W.A. Ireland’s depiction of our joy! Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Below, from June 1916, Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling shows [...]
Women’s History Month: More American Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
As this year’s Women’s History Month coverage approaches its end, we have one more round of Women’s Suffrage cartoons from 1913 issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and better read the words within them. Above, from the May 1913 issue, artist Carey Orr depicts [...]
Women’s History Month: Canadian Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
From the February 1913 (above) and April 1913 (below) issues of Cartoons Magazine, Canadian male cartoonists Arthur G. Racey and Hunter chide American Suffragettes to leave Canadian women out of the struggle for equal rights, as they are happy without them… (Again, according to two male cartoonists.) Click on the above & below pictures, to [...]
Women’s History Month: British Suffrage Cartoons: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
While American Suffragettes were parading and demonstrating, their British counter-parts were adapting more radical tactics, such as throwing bricks through shop windows. What percent of British Suffragettes actually engaged in violent or destructive protest, versus non-violent demonstration, I don’t know. But even if just a small number, the anti-suffrage crowd on both sides of the [...]
Farewell to Taft: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
March 4th, 1913 — President Wilson’s Inauguration Day — was also farewell day to the exiting President, William Howard Taft. Above, from the April 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine, are cartoons on that subject, by artists Harold Heaton, Oscar Cesare, James H. Donahey, William Kemp Starrett, Charles Bowers, and Matthew Caine. Click on the above [...]
Suffrage Parade in Washington, D.C., March 3rd, 1913: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
On March 3rd, 1913 — the day prior to Woodrow Wilson’s Inauguration Parade — the National American Woman Suffrage Association staged their own parade along the next day’s route in support of Women’s Suffrage. During the parade, some women were attacked by male onlookers, while the police present did nothing or joined in. Above & [...]
Women’s History Month: Female Cartoonists 1913: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
What better way for us to begin Women’s History Month, than with a review of the (few) instances in which Cartoons Magazine focused the pages they regularly devoted upon cartoonists themselves, on women. In the monthly title’s first year-and-a-half, these are nearly all of the pages on or by women (we’ll show one next week, [...]
