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 [...]
“Blaine Language”, 1888, Part 1
For today’s post, a treat, whether you agree with or despise my political bent. The first excerpt from the incredibly rare 1888-published comic book, Blaine Language, satirizing 1884 G.O.P. Presidential nominee, James G. Blaine. Blaine was reknowned for being an outrageously brazen liar, supporter of monopolies, and corrupt. While the corruption aspect of Blaine’s character [...]
Good Ol’ Days: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, September 1912
It’s time again for our monthly Cartoons Magazine Centennial Year Good Ol’ Days potpourri, looking back to the September 1912 issue. End of Summer cartoons, above, by Kin Hubbard (creator of Abe Martin) and Ralph Everett Wilder, and below, by Billy DeBeck and others. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons [...]
James Blaine’s “Tattooed-Man”, June 18th, 1884: The Writing on the Wall
Above, by Puck magazine founder & artist, Joseph Keppler, Sr., The Writing on the Wall. On stage & shrinking from the light of the words “Republican Revolt” on the backwall, are 1884 Republican Presidential nominee James G. Blaine, as the Tattooed Man, and his Vice-Presidential running mate. Blaine — well known nationally for his corruption [...]
James G. Blaine’s Olympus of Corruption & Tattooed Man Revue
In 1884, the Republican Party nominee for President was former Speaker of the House James Blaine. Blaine was the equivalent of today’s Newt Gingrich — known for his lies, corruption, and immorality. His nomination resulted in Republicans’ first post-Civil War loss of the Presidency. To hilight why Blaine shouldn’t become President, Puck magazine’s artists produced [...]
Nelson Harding on the Party Split
Above, the front cover of The Political Campaign of 1912 in Cartoons by Nelson Harding, published November 1912, just following the election. Its cartoons had originally appeared in the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. Below, extracts by Nelson Harding, involving the division of the G.O.P. into two rival parties, with Teddy Roosevelt leading the new Progressive Party, [...]
Catholicism & Politics
WARNING: The below content reprints hate-filled anti-Catholic propaganda. Making the news for the past week+, has been rival Republican Presidential Front-Runner, Rick Santorum, for any number of stupid, ignorant, or simply prejudiced, extremist remarks. But the remarks this post is specifically aimed at is Santorum’s reaction to John F. Kennedy’s speech about how a Catholic [...]
Pied Piper of the Republican Party, 1884 — The Children Refuse to be Charmed
With Newt Gingrich remaining in the current Republican primaries for minimally another month — and possibly much longer — we have an opportunity to start into the “Tattooed Man” series of cartoons, that parodied Newt’s 1884 equivalent, James G. Blaine. The above cartoon by artist Frederick Burr Opper, appeared on the rear cover of the [...]
Women’s History: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 6
I’m approaching two years here on SuperI.T.C.H., during which what examples of Women’s Suffrage cartoons I’ve shown have basically been in March, during Women’s History Month. However, female suffrage appeared frequently as a subject in Cartoons Magazine, so count on seeing a few examples throughout this year, as I continue to post month-by-month extracts in [...]
Why Do They Do It?, 1888
Above, detail from the rear cover cartoon of the September 19th, 1888 issue of Puck magazine. In this section close-up, we see the prior election’s (1884′s) Republican nominee for President, James G. Blaine — the Victorian Age’s equivalent of Newt Gingrich in corruption and scandal — leading a bound (by monopoly interests) Republican Party by [...]
