Women’s History Month: Women in the Military: Cartoons Magazine Centennial 1913
Although I’ve been unable to find a specific incident sparking the above cartoon by Robert Minor, Jr. (scanned from the February 1913 issue of Cartoons Magazine), I imagine it possibly referencing a specific lecturer, known to readers of the time. The women depicted listening, are drawn possessing the strength of Suffragettes, fully capable of beating [...]
Civil War Christmas Cartoons: Vanity Fair
I’ve been rather neglectful in my postings, of the fact that we’re in the midst of the 150th Anniversary of the American Civil War. Today, a meager bit of catching up, with some Christmas-themed cartoons, from the Civil War-era comic periodical , Vanity Fair. Above, a series of individual Christmas-themed cartoons, by Frank Bellew, Sr., [...]
Exhibition: Victorian Narrative Stereography: 1855 - 1910
Tonight, February 3rd, from 4 to 7 pm, will be a reception for the gallery exhibit, Victorian Narrative Stereography: 1855-1910, at the Little Gallery of Sage College of Albany. It is located on campus, in Rathbone Hall, 140 New Scotland Avenue, Albany, NY. Afterwards, the exhibit will be open thru February 26, Sunday - Friday, [...]
Who Should vs. Who Does Pay the Taxes: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 69
This week, as everyone should have expected from the start, the Congressional “Super Legion”… uh, “Injustice League”… er… “Committee“(??), came to zero agreement. Click on any of the pictures above and below, to view enlarged versions. Above, The End of a Bad Show, depicting the workings of the “Grand National Congressional Theatre”. Puck magazine’s mascot [...]
A Congressional Prayer
Today, the 112th Congress begins its session. I thought it appropriate we look back towards the Congress most resembling the temperament of our current incoming members — the 36th Congress, which ushered in the American Civil War. (Double-appropriate, as 2011 is also the start of five years’ worth of 150th anniversaries of Civil War dates of interest. I anticipate we will be posting [...]
Paul Buhle Remembers Harvey Pekar Pt. 1
It goes without saying that the comics world was shocked and saddened by the death of Harvey Pekar, and that those feelings of loss extended well beyond the little community of comics. There is no shortage of tributes this week to his sweet soul and his absolute genius, all of them written with grief and [...]
When Women Get the Vote
Florence Claxton’s 1870s comic book Adventures of a Woman in Search of Her Rights, which we presented the past four Mondays, was by far the exception to the kinds of cartoons on the subject, drawn, edited and published mostly by men, which were the norm. (Even Leslie Publications, run eventually by Frank Leslie’s widow, knew where its readership stood, [...]
