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 [...]
Father’s Day
Welcome to our second annual Father’s Day posting! Above, A Happy Father from the February 1857 issue of the American comic monthly Nick-Nax. (These two panels are in fact ripped off from the first two panels of the comic strip The History of “Our Baby” by William McConnell, which in 1853 was serialized in the British [...]
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 [...]
The Childrens’ Point-of-View, 1857: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 44
Children will imitate what they see in their parents and the other adults around them, which is the point of these cartoons from the Panic of 1857, all three by artist Frank Bellew (Sr.). Below, Another Terrible Failure, from the (New York) Picayune, November 7, 1857. Next, Prevailing Complaint, from the December 1857 issue of [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 10: Hard Times in Wall Street
With every past financial crisis, the editorial cartoons on the subject can be categorized into multiple recurring themes. One of these is the sarcastic “Think of what the poor blokes who work or invest on Wall Street are suffering”. This approach was more common in the 19th century, where the regular audience/buyers for comic periodicals, needed a modicum of wealth to afford the subscription to [...]
Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 09: Return to the Barter System
Current Senate candidate Sue Lowden has become a laughingstock for her repeated argument that Health Care Reforms were not needed, as those without health coverage could ”bring a chicken to the doctor”. (Click here for exact quotes plus video.) But perhaps she isn’t the nutcase she seems. Several cartoons from the Panic of 1857 make reference to a lack of [...]
