Cartoonists at the Theatre: Turn to the Right, 1916
We have one more cartoonist-illustrated theater giveaway for April Fools’ Month, advertising the travelling comedic play Turn to the Right, showing at Garrick Theatre in Philadelphia during the Christmas Season. (An internet search shows this play was at that theater during Christmas 1916, so unless it played there in other years on Christmas as well, [...]
Christmas Bills: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
By this time, most of us have gotten socked this January, with the bills we rang up in November/December, for Christmas. It was no different 100 years ago, as these cartoons from the February 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine attest. Above, cartoonist Billy Ireland on that precise situation. Click on the above & below pictures, [...]
Joys & Glooms by T.E. Powers
Today, one final example of a 1912 comic strip book, that comics fans of a century ago might have hoped to find waiting for them, beneath the Christmas tree — Joys & Glooms, by T.E. Powers, reprinting comics which had appeared in the newspaper New York American. Powers’ strip was populated with tiny characters, which [...]
General Politics: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, March 1912, Part 8
While the 1912 Presidential Election naturally dominated the first year run of Cartoons Magazine, there was plenty of other political foolishness & scandals happening at that same time. Today’s posting of extracts from its March 1912 third issue, involves these other activities. Above, several never-had-a-chance aspirants to the Presidency, including William Randolph Hearst (newspaper tycoon, [...]
A Valentine’s Joke Book, 1912 & 1852
For this year’s Valentine’s Day, we first have from 1912, A Valentine Joke Book — part of the weekly 1911-1912 Sunday American Joke Book series. These were newspaper supplements, bound as newsprint magazines, inside the Boston American and N.Y. American newspapers. (Other cities might also have done these — I do not know; due to [...]
