‘Twas ever thus’ in editorial cartoons

If you haven’t already, you should check out the slide slow Richard Crowson put together of editorial cartoons by Ben Hammond, who was The Eagle’s editorial cartoonist from 1912 until 1965. As you’ll see, the topics haven’t changed much over the years.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee

4 Comments

  1. JWink
    Posted April 14, 2007 at 3:01 am | Permalink

    Richard Crowson, you have published a string of really great editorial cartoons in the past few days including your great memorial to Ben Hammond, the EAGLE’s editorial cartoonist from 1912 to 1965.

    Now here’s another great idea for you. A cartoon depicting another wonderful statue for Wichita in addition to the “millipede.”

    This time the statue would front the proposed downtown white elephant ice hockey arena with its 50 shiny new zambonies. The statue would be in heroic proportions to stare back at Black Bear Bosin’s raised “Keeper of the (Kansas) Plains” statue framed by replicas of the San Francisco Bay Bridge towers.

    The statue?? Of Wichita native son and one time presidential candidate, Earl Browder. Browder was general secretary in the 1930’s and 1940’s of the American Communist Party. He gave us the familiar term, “Browderism.”

    Now wouldn’t that be appropriate!

  2. mrcontroversy
    Posted April 14, 2007 at 3:36 am | Permalink

    Genius, Crowson.#12 is the ultimate classic.Perhaps we should go back to calling the GOBN “the Rule or Ruin Clique”.

  3. Vaughn Tolle
    Posted April 14, 2007 at 12:50 pm | Permalink

    Richard, thank you for the slide show. As one who grew up while Mr. Hammond was still “doing his thing”, seeing Hoots and Quack again has brought back memories of reading the Eagle “back in the day”.

  4. JWink
    Posted April 14, 2007 at 1:43 pm | Permalink

    DEFINITION OF BROWDERISM: TAKE (lotsa taxes) FROM THE MANY (groups of public employees, police, fire, teachers and from the retired, elderly, day workers, etc.) … AND GIVE (lotsa money) TO THE FEW. In Wichita, its channeled through the “insider/outsiders” that currently call the arena shots and a few cooperative inept politicians.

    Loosely known as the “pro-arena gang,” their motto is, “Our vision spends the hard-earned money of the little people.”

    Earl Browder, former Secretary of the American Communist Party — Wouldn’t it be better to let WICHITA PEOPLE spend their own money for food, utilities, services, their own selection of entertainment venues and … more taxes?