Unemployed & Disabled WW I Veterans’ Pamphlets
Following W.W. I, both before & during the First Great Depression, unemployed & disabled veterans sold pamphlets on the street, as a means of asking for money while retaining their pride that they were not begging. Many of these pamphlets did not have a set price, but instead asked people to “Pay What You Please.” [...]
Early Comic Books Revue
Above, extracted from Fun magazine, July 2nd, 1879, The Book Borrower, by artist James Sullivan. Click on it, to enlarge it to readable size. This being San Diego Comic Con weekend, when better than to look back at a few of the 19th & early 20th century comic books that can be found here on [...]
Health Care
Today being the Supreme Court’s ruling on Health Care, I’ve quick thrown together a few related cartoons. Above, artist Syd Hoff‘s take on the Supreme Court, from his 1935 Great Depression I era book, The Ruling Clawss, collecting samples of his cartoons previously published in The Daily Worker. Click on the above & below cartoons, [...]
Hello Buddy: Great Depression I era Unemployed Veteran Pamphlets
During the First Great Depression, unemployed W.W. I veterans sold pamphlets with titles such as “Hello Buddy”, as a means of asking for money while retaining their pride that they were not begging. Many of these pamphlets did not have a set price, but instead asked people to “Pay What You Please.” We’ve show a [...]
The Butler Book, Yale, 1913
Week Three of this year’s Back-to-School College Comics brings us to a few sample extracts from The Butler Book, by (at the time of its June 16th, 1913 publication) graduating Yale senior Alban Bernard Butler. This collection of Butler cartoons first saw print in the Yale Record. Butler later served in the military during World [...]
Veteran’s Day
For Veteran’s Day, more extracts from the Great Depression I-era pamphlets sold on the streets by unemployed WW I veterans, that we’ve sampled from in prior posts (found here). First, below, an Out Our Way cartoon by cartoonist J.R. Williams. Click on any picture, to open an enlarged version. Below left, from veteran Dan Napoli, [...]
‘Erbie and ‘Is Playmates
In 1932, three years after the start of Great Depression I — the GOP, whose policies helped destroy the world economy, were seeking to re-elect Republican President Herbert Hoover. Hoover had been in office less than a year when the Stock Market collapsed — so to blame him would not be exactly fair — it would be more [...]
Memorial Week, Day 7: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 31
Concluding (for now) our exploration of pamphlets sold on the street during the first Great Depression, by unemployed WW I veterans. Some of these booklets carried prices, while others, such as the example below, stated simply, “Price — Pay What You Please.” Similar in concept to the more recent Street News, sold by homeless people [...]
Memorial Week, Day 6: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 30
Day 6 of our week-long exploration of pamphlets sold on the streets by unemployed WW I veterans, during the first Great Depression. Below, another example cover, and interior cartoon. Click on either picture, to see an enlarged version. Click here to find prior posts on the unemployed WW I veteran pamphlets. And, Click here, to find [...]
Memorial Week, Day 5: Wall Street Frauds Make Wonderful Cartoons, Part 29
Day 5 of our week-long exploration of pamphlets sold on the streets by unemployed WW I veterans, during the first Great Depression. Below, cover art by J.J. O’Neill. Click on any picture, to see an enlarged version. Below are two cartoons from inside the pamphlets. Left, by Dan Napoli. Right, by Art Young. Click here to find prior [...]
