Baseball: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, June 1912, Part 11
From June 1912 — back in the days when baseball actually was “America’s Favorite Pastime”, and a favorite topic of America’s cartoonists — come the following Cartoons Magazine extracts. My usual “and others” for contributions by lesser cartoonists not being tracked, does not even appear today, as all the contributors are stars. Above left, kids [...]
Cartoons Magazine Centennial, February 1912, Part 1
We continue our celebration of Cartoons Magazine‘s Centennial, with the first of several extracts from its second issue, of February 1912. One notable addition from issue one, is a monthly focus hilighting specific cartoonists. This month, the spotlight is placed on John T. McCutcheon. McCutcheon created the above cover, depicting cartoonists of different nationalities drawing [...]
Sports & Concrete Furniture: Cartoons Magazine Centennial, January 1912, Part 7
WARNING: Some of the below cartoons contain racist imagery and slurs. We close out our extracts from the January 1912 issue of Cartoons Magazine, with Sports, and Concrete Furniture. Yes, concrete furniture. When I spotted the first cartoon above, I at first thought this was a totally fascetious joke. Then I noticed a second concrete [...]
