Marching Towards the Great War!: Cartoons Magazine Centennial February 1913
The February 1913 edition of Cartoons Magazine contained a small handful of cartoons, foreshadowing the approaching “Great War”, WW I. Here they are. Above, “Insatiable”, by Barnett of the Los Angeles Tribune. Below, ‘London “Pulls the Strings”‘, by E.T. Reed in the London Bystander. Click on the above & below pictures, to view them in [...]
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, May 1912, Part 10
Above, from the May 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, a couple of pages on Women’s Suffrage from Britain (right) and Germany (left). Deliberately juxtaposed, I’m sure, for the fact that both make reference to prepping for war against the other. The British anti-suffrage cartoon, referencing using the suffragettes themselves as weapons of war. The German [...]
Sinking of the Titanic, Day Two, April 15, 1912: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 0
Yesterday, we presented a group of cartoons on the centennial of the Titanic striking an iceberg, from the May issue of Cartoons Magazine (click here to see those). Today — the 100th anniversary of the Titanic’s early morning slipping beneath the waves — we have a second grouping, extracted this time from the June 1912 [...]
