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Comic Strips
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Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
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- Politeness.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
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Illustration shows a man labeled "Workingman" bent over under the weight of an enormous dinner pail labeled "Tariff for Graft Only".
Caption:
The Fullest Dinner Pail
Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.26274/
Puck, May 27, 1908
Note that the dinner pail was the analog of what we'd call the lunchbox today; dinner was, at one point, the mid-day meal.
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Illustration shows an old man labeled "Republican Reactionary" and an old woman labeled "Democratic Reactionary" standing together, looking up at a dirigible labeled "Progressive Policies".
Caption:
Set in their ways
"Well, the young folks may go if they want to, but they'll never get you and me in the breakneck thing."
Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.27734/
Puck, May 10, 1911.
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Illustration shows Uncle Sam in a tree, chased there by the Russian Bear which is standing at the base of the tree; Uncle Sam has dropped his rifle labeled "U.S. Duty on Russian Sugar."
Caption:
As the tariff-war must end
Uncle Sam (to Russia)
Don't shoot! I'll come down!
Source: https://www.loc.gov/resource/ppmsca.25550/
Puck, July 31, 1901
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Puck: Uncle Sam's dream of conquest and carnage - caused by reading the Jingo newspapers
(lemmy.today)
Print shows Uncle Sam asleep in a chair with a large eagle perched on a stand next to him; he is dreaming of conquests and annexations, asserting his "Monroe Doctrine" rights, becoming master of the seas, putting John Bull in his place, and building "formidable and invulnerable coast defenses"; on the floor by the chair are jingoistic and yellow journalism newspapers.
Caption:
Uncle Sam's Dream of Conquest and Carnage
Caused by Reading the Jingo Newspapers
Puck, November 13, 1895
Note that I downscaled the image to half source resolution to conform to lemmy.today pict-rs resolution restrictions; it's still pretty decent resolution.
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Illustration shows Uncle Sam using a magnifying glass to see in his left hand a diminutive man labeled "Rumor Monger" yelling "Panic, National Disaster, Failures, [and] Ruin" into a megaphone labeled "Wall Str."
Caption:
The Wall Street Rumor-monger
Uncle Sam
Well ! Well ! Will this nuisance ever learn that the country governs Wall Street ; not Wall Street, the country ?
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