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, [...]
In the Olympics Spirit…
“Winter Sports in Quackville” — by painter & comic artist Walt Kuhn. Kuhn was an organizer of the famous (at the time, infamous) 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, at the Armory in New York City. The below art by Kuhn was published in 1910, in Judge magazine, and is one of several Quackville pages that he did. Doug [...]
