Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 1
Cartoons Magazine began its monthly run one hundred years ago. Review of Reviews, which began publication in January 1890, had for more than two decades presented a few pages every month collecting recent editorial cartoons from around the world (along with, mostly, recent text articles). Cartoons Magazine expanded upon those few pages, devoting the entire [...]
The Flies to the Spider: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 66
Above, The Flies Got Wise, from the January 22nd, 1913 issue of Puck magazine, proposing a public that has finally got wise to the Wall Street’s traps. Of course, we know this 1913 cover is pure fantasy — the public has since been ripped off, again and again. Below, a re-presentation of two cartoons from [...]
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 [...]
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” [...]
Teddy Roosevelt vs. Corporate Campaign Contributions
With a week-and-a-half to go before the 2010 mid-term elections, record amounts of money are being spent on television adverting, 90%+ of it from anonymous corporate sources, their specific motives and agendas kept hidden from the American public. This, thanks to the recent ruling of our conservative activist Supreme Court, which threw away election reforms dating back to those [...]
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 [...]
The Biggest Loafer of Them All: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 61
As Congress returns from its July 4th Recess today, and assumably resumes their debate on the Wall Street / Financial Reform legislation… (and, if they aren’t resuming it today, how about we label them the Second Biggest Loafers???)… following is a reminder from Great Depression I, of precisely who (apparently in both Depressions), The Biggest [...]
