Showing posts with label 1921. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1921. Show all posts
Saturday, December 18, 2021

Weimar Weihnachten

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It has been a while since we've checked in on what German editorial cartoonists were up to a century ago, so let's see how they cele...
Saturday, November 6, 2021

Saturday Pot Pourri

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I'm keeping this week's Saturday History Tour short and sweet and in search of any unifying theme today, so let's just get start...
Saturday, September 18, 2021

Saturday Sports Report

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I was preparing this review of century-old cartoons a few weeks ago, only to shelve it when Milwaukee Mayor Tom Barrett was appointed U.S. A...
Monday, September 6, 2021

Keep the Labor in Labor Day!

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100 Labor Days ago (yeah I know it's not Saturday, but it's a holiday, which is just as good a time for a history lesson) coal miner...
Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Tulsa Revisited

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As I wrote in my post two Saturdays ago , I am sure that there were more editorial cartoons to be found about the 1921 Tulsa Pogrom than the...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

Noises Off

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Last Saturday's centennial retrospective reported on the month-by-month demise of Cartoons Magazine as it was taken over by light ficti...
Saturday, May 8, 2021

Alas, Poor Cartoons Magazine

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I must acknowledge Google Books' archive of Cartoons Magazine  as having been an invaluable resource in putting together my series of es...
Tuesday, May 4, 2021

D'öh!

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Homer Simpson in a 1921 Swedish cartoon: "Adamson and the Bachelor's Button" in Söndags-Nisse, Stockholm, 1921