Wall Street Panics & Collapses: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #107
Using mostly cartoons shown over the course of our Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons run, plus a scattering of a few new ones, we have a brief review in pictures, of Wall Street Crashes & Panics, from mid-19th Century, up through Great Depression I. The upcoming election pits one candidate who is a millionaire [...]
Child Labor: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #106
With some Tea Party Republican extremists calling for the elimination of regulations, going so far as to eliminate regulations against Child Labor — and, with the possibility of a Republican President who allow this and other extremist legislation from a Republican Congress to pass without a veto — we take a look at a few [...]
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, [...]
Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #104
Above, Raising the Funds to Buy the Presidency, by artist Joseph Keppler, Sr., depicting Republican fund raisers in the guise of medieval clergy selling indulgences (i.e., back before/during Martin Luther, the church would sell tickets to Heaven, in which people could be absolved for any sin, for enough money “donated” to the church). Implied in [...]
Paying Tribute: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons #103
Above, depicting rural and city workers handing over their wages and taxes in obeisance to the corporate monopolies, who rule via the sowrd of legislation, which they own/control. “History Repeats Itself. — The Robber Barons of the Middle Ages, and the Robber Barons of To-Day”, by Samuel Ehrhart, from the centerspread of the November 6th, [...]
“Blaine Language”, 1888, Part 2
Today, Part 2 of our extracts from the extremely rare 1888-published comic book Blaine Language from Truthful Blaine, with text by Henry Liddell and art by G. Roberty, and published by Paquet & Co., New York. Blaine Language satirizes James G. Blaine, widely known for his corruption and brazen lying, who was the 1884 Republican [...]
Dressing Up the Party
Above & below, a few cartoons in time for the next stage of the Great Republican Etch-a-Sketch Makeover, concealing their true words and actions of the past years and months, hiding their actual schemes which would guarantee electoral defeat if honestly revealed, and so must be dressed up in pretty sounding fare, for the consumption [...]
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
James G. Blaine’s “Tattooed-Man”, September 24th, 1884: Money Will Be Vindicated
Above, by artist Bernhard Gillam, from the centerspread of the September 24th, 1884 issue of Puck magazine, we have the 1884 G.O.P. Presidential-nominee, James Blaine, featured in the cartoon Blaine Will Be Vindicated in November. The cartoon is a play on an argument given by the N.Y. Tribune (then a Republican mouthpiece newspaper, twisting and [...]
