Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
To close out this year’s Back-to-School run, above & below are a few pages that managed to escape my sweep of Cartoons Magazine, by hiding out in the November 1912 issue, way past when I would have thought that Back-to-School cartoons would have been running… Cartoonists above are: H.T. Webster, William Kemp Starrett, and Fontaine [...]
Harvard Lampoon, School Year Fall 1877 - Spring 1878
For Week Three of Back-to-School Month, we feature half a dozen cartoons from the 1877 to 1878 School Year of the Harvard Lampoon, most of them the work of artist Francis Gilbert Attwood. Several graduates from the Harvard Lampoon — including Attwood — would in a few years after this, found Life magazine, patterned after [...]
The Ruling Clawss: Born into Privilege
We all know the old business mantra, “You need to have money, to make money.” One of our two (major) Presidential candidate’s claim to success is grounded in having inherited his start-up funds, and, while on the campaign trail, he told students (at Otterbein University in Ohio) that if they wanted to pay for their [...]
William T. Peters’ “Ichabod Academicus”, circa 1850: Junior Year
For Week Two of our Third Annual Back-to-School Month postings, we present Part 3 of the circa 1850 sequential comic book, The College Experiences of Ichabod Academicus, written & drawn by Yale University student William T. Peters. Peters structured Ichabod Academicus into four chapters, one for each year of university life. Below is Ichabod’s third, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Cambridge University, December 1873
We close out this year’s Back-to-School College Comics run, with the December 1873 cartoon centerspread and cover of Cambridge University’s satirical student magazine, The Lantern of the Cam. The title ran briefly, from 1871 to 1873, with illustrations signed by Bob Plummet (which might very well be a pseudonym). Click on either picture to view [...]
The Butler Book, Yale, 1913
Week Three of this year’s Back-to-School College Comics brings us to a few sample extracts from The Butler Book, by (at the time of its June 16th, 1913 publication) graduating Yale senior Alban Bernard Butler. This collection of Butler cartoons first saw print in the Yale Record. Butler later served in the military during World [...]
The Education of Alonzo Applegate, 1910
For Week Two of this year’s Back-to-School College Comics, we present a few extracts from The Education of Alonzo Applegate and Other Cartoons, by cartoonist Jay Norwood “Ding” Darling. This 1910 collection reprints Ding cartoons which originally appeared in the Des Moines Register. Above, the cover of The Education of Alonzo Applegate, showing his start [...]
William T. Peters’ “Ichabod Academicus”, circa 1850: Sophomore Year
Last year, we presented on SuperI.T.C.H. several postings involving the theme of Back-to-School, each of them showcasing Victorian Age and Hearst Era comics published by college students. Amongst these postings was the first part of the circa 1850 sequential comic book, The College Experiences of Ichabod Academicus, written & drawn by Yale University student William [...]
