Cartoonists’ Theatre Ads: F. Opper
A number of cartoonists have been involved in theater. One of them was Frederick Burr Opper. Above, a cartoon by Opper, from the October 4th, 1884 issue of Puck magazine. Beneath, Opper illustrated ads for the mid-1880′s play, Mugg’s Landing. These came from a folding card handout. Click on Theatrical Cartoons to find prior postings [...]
Maud by F. Opper
So okay, I’m taking a breath for January, after having posted with ridiculous frequency last year. I’ll be drawn back into it soon enough. For now, some filler material I scanned awhile ago. The above episode of Maud, by artist Frederick Burr Opper, appeared on the rear cover of the September 13th, 1906 issue of [...]
Puck’s Revised Library of Juvenile Fiction, 1884
This being the month for Juveniles (both around the Christmas tree, and in Congress), we take another look at cartoonists attacking a rival medium of their day as being lurid — i.e., dime novels, and their affects on the young mind… The above rear cover page by artist Frederick Burr Opper, imagines classic works of [...]
Military vs. Budget: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #105
So hey people, today we start out with cartoons on some actual warships, just a few years prior to 1916! And guess what, they were arguing back then, on whether they had enough ships! And just out, Mitt Romney’s newest round of advertisements, takes his penchance for lying to a whole new level. He has [...]
Blaine Bits
Usually, when we’ve posted cartoons involving James G. Blaine — the corrupt Speaker of the House from Maine, reknowned for his flagrant and brazen lying, who was the G.O.P.’s 1884 Presidential nominee — they’ve been the large color cartoons positioned in the front, rear, and center of Puck magazine. Puck‘s pages between the color cartoons, [...]
The Phrenology of Jay Gould
Above, from the September 21st, 1881 issue of Puck magazine, comes “The Phrenology of Jay Gould“, by artist Frederick Burr Opper. Click on the above picture, to view Opper’s comic in greater detail, and be able to read its captions. Doug Wheeler
Tainted Food: Tigwissel Tuesdays # 37
In this week’s Tigwissel Tuesdays, we look at the dangers of consuming food, pre-F.D.A., as numerous Republican candidates have proudly declared that they would like to dismantle the Food & Drug Administration. As Mitt Romney might inelegantly phrase it when amongst his friends, Americans are too lazy to take responsibility for their own lives and [...]
The Working Man’s Friend
So okay, I had planned to introduce this set of cartoons this month anyway, but Mitt Romney just two days ago made all my intros for the next month-and-a-half, a whole lot easier, by calling nearly half of all Americans lazy & worthless bums, soaking the government. Including retirees who earned their Social Security. And [...]
Regulation as Wall Street Pretends to See it: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #99
The wealthy crying that any laws restricting their reckless financial gambling (i.e., what gave us both the First and current Second Great Depressions), and doing anything they want to the benefit of their personal selves when it works — and to the harm of everyone else when it doesn’t — is “Socialist Tyranny”, is hardly [...]
Living Truths of Nature, 1890: Tigwissel Tuesdays #35
Last week, during the Anti-Science Party’s (G.O.P.’s) National Convention, we ran anti-Darwin cartoons for our Tigwissel Tuesdays entry. This week, to clean the taste of that dirty deed from our mouths, we have Puck Presents Archdeacon Farrar’s New Year’s Hint — A Needed Course of Instruction for Our Religious Instructors. Click on the above cartoon, [...]
