And the Beat Goes On…
A couple images appropriate to today… The Merry Go Round, by Harrison Cady, showing the rich partying on the backs of the working masses, published in 1912, in Life magazine… Click on the below picture, to see an enlarged version. And, from Great Depression I, The Biggest Loafer of Them All by Jay Norwood “Ding” [...]
More Cartoons the Tea Party Would Like to Bring Back
The basic theme today, is to run a few cartoons involving ills of the past, which were cured by government programs or agencies, which various Tea Party candidates have stated they would like to eliminate. It being Halloween, it also helps if Death just happens to be hanging around in the cartoon. (Exception, I did [...]
Cartoons the Tea Party Would Like to Bring Back
One thing we can look forward to, should the Libertarian (under the guise of “Tea Party”) take-over of the Republican Party achieve success, is the return of socially relevant cartoons! Issues thought fixed/reformed half a century+ ago, as Tea Party extremists blindly seek to tear down the laws that protect individual American citizens against the most egregious abuses of corporations, ignorant of the [...]
In Conclusion (For Now): Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 64
Above, Uncle Takes the Boys’ Bones by Daniel Fitzpatrick, published in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, as soon after reprinted in the April 1934 issue of American Review of Reviews. Well, it took longer than we’d hoped it would take, and the resultant legislation is not perfect, but today, President Obama signs the latest financial crisis-inspired [...]
Memorial Weekend, Day 3
First, for Memorial Day itself, we have If the Living and the Dead Were to March Together by Harrison Cady, from a 1916 issue of Life magazine, during World War I. Click on any cartoon, to see an enlarged version. During Great Depression I, unemployed WW I veterans sold pamphlets, to raise small amounts of [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 06: The Merry Go Round of Life
This time out, some cartoons showing the effects, rather than crashes themselves. The Merry Go Round, by Harrison Cady, showing the rich partying on the backs of the working poor who support them — an appropriate image for today’s Wall Street, rescued by all of us, and now raking in huge profits, caring not for [...]
Harrison Cady’s Earth Day…
There may not have been an Earth Day when artist Harrison Cady created these cartoons, but still he spoke to the subject. These cartoons appeared in Life magazine, in 1925 and 1911, respectively. Additionally, not by Harrison Cady, but I feel like adding one of my own comics addressing the subject. Art by Doug Rice & Hilary Barta. Appeared in [...]
When Women Get the Vote
Florence Claxton’s 1870s comic book Adventures of a Woman in Search of Her Rights, which we presented the past four Mondays, was by far the exception to the kinds of cartoons on the subject, drawn, edited and published mostly by men, which were the norm. (Even Leslie Publications, run eventually by Frank Leslie’s widow, knew where its readership stood, [...]
Mind Fuck
One of the best things about blogs is turning the readers onto OTHER blogs and websites. I gotta remember that. Today I have the supreme pleasure of alerting you to two terrific url’s with two friends of mine behind them. The first is a website by Jon Barli that showcses his wonderful and important work [...]
