Author: The Billy Ireland Cartoon Library and Museum

This comic from the early 1900s shows us how far we haven’t come

“Uncle Sam’s Dream of Conquest and Carnage: Caused by Reading the Jingo Newspapers”, a cartoon by Joseph Keppler, was first published in Puck on November 13, 1895.

The Electoral College? Controversial for a long time now.

In the week before many Americans vote for their first female presidential candidate, let’s remember the women before them who fought for the right to vote at all.

‘Think it Over’ by Billy Ireland was originally published on August 8, 1917, in the Columbus Dispatch.

This cartoon from 1910 shows complaints about immigrants haven’t changed much.

Frederick Burr Opper’s 1881 cartoon about gun control.

Frederick Burr Opper’s cartoon from Puck Magazine showed us how the press was viewed in 1880.