Focus on Cartoonists: Cartoons Magazine Centennial October 1913
“Focus on Cartoonists” catch up continues, with pages from the October 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine. Above, Luther D. Bradley depicts on the October cover General Victoriano Huerta, who was briefly President of Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. Beneath, an article on cartooning by James H. Shonkwiler. Click on the above & below pictures, to […]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
We’re in the midst of “Villains’ Month” at DC Comics, in which all of DC’s supes were sent emails inviting them to attend a timeshare conference — you know the spiel, just bring a few forms of identification (bank account, credit cards, social security numbers), and for a few hours of your time listening to […]
Ohio River Flood: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
From Cartoons Magazine, we have coverage of the Ohio River Flood of 1913. Last Year’s Earth Day posting, however, included the Ohio River Flood of 1883, so doing so on that day would have been repetitious. Above, from the March 1913 issue, we have cartoons by Charles “Doc” Winner, Stinson, and Billy DeBeck Click on […]
Women’s Suffrage: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
We’re approaching both Halloween and next week’s election. What could be scarier subject for male Republican candidates than Women’s Suffrage(given how often they’re prone to make the colossal mistake of letting slip what their true opinions are)? All pages extracted from the October & November 1912 issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & […]
Teddy Roosevelt: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
As we approach the Grand Finale of our political circus, SuperI.T.C.H. strives to keep you up on every twist & turn — from one century ago. Today our focus swings back to former U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt, seeking to return for a third term. He was running against not only the Democrats, but also against […]
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 […]
Back-to-School: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1912
We kick off our third annual Back-to-School Month cartoons, with pages on that theme, from the September 1912 (above) and October 1912 (all the pages below, except the last) issues of Cartoons Magazine. Click on the above & below pictures, to view the cartoons in detail, and read their captions. Cartoons above & below by […]
Taft Political Machine, 1912 Republican National Convention, Part 2: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, July 1912, Part 0.2
The 1912 Republican National Convention opened with sitting President, William Howard Taft, firmly in control of the Party Machine and Bosses, at a time when it was the Bosses who chose most of the delegates to Conventions. 1912 was also the year that a handful of states had reformed that process, for the first time […]
Roosevelt is a Red!
Does the below look familiar? Back in the days of Great Depression I, a constant refrain from the Republican Party was that President Franklin Roosevelt was a communist or a socialist, and that the United States had become a communist dictatorship, because Democrats were in power. The below left cartoon by Rollin Kirby, is from the mid-term elections […]
