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Great editorial art by Winsor McCay
1. Getting into the public eye through notoriety leads to disgrace. Work is harder but more honorable.
1. Getting into the public eye through notoriety leads to disgrace. Work is harder but more honorable.
2. The children of ignorance: vice, poverty, and crime.
McCay was not wrong. Certain errors will lead to moral disaster.
McCay was not wrong. Certain errors will lead to moral disaster.
3. Do not think it is impossible. Protect your country against those who hate it.
4. We seek after refined answers in hidden places without first looking at what is plainly available to all.
McCay nailed it.
McCay nailed it.
5. War and barbarism, the ultimate destroyer of every civilization.
6. Anarchism desperately wants to throw a bomb in the middle of civilization.
McCay already knew.
McCay already knew.
7. Fear can turn the whole world into a horror show, if you let it.
8. Apparently, knowledge and truth are the sideshow.
9. All aboard for Fool Land!
10. This car is getting a little fast, don't you think?
11. A hard road, but the only road.
12. The rule of technology? There are many reasons to be suspicious, actually.
McCay wasn't a fan.
McCay wasn't a fan.
13. All the results of thinking.
14. Hope leads on every pioneer.
15. He was too old to think, Death says.
Yes, and he encumbered the earth, Time replies.
Yes, and he encumbered the earth, Time replies.
16. Genteel pleasures can hide hellish actions and consequences.
17. Beware "easy."
18. Drugs are a many-tentacled monster. Avoid.
McCay already knew a hundred years ago.
McCay already knew a hundred years ago.
19. Hell on earth, if you let it be. Avoid.
20. If we will, we can.
21. The inventor, earth's benefactor.
22. Time and destiny lead all to one destination, the tomb.
23. What is glory?
24. The Almighty Hand.
25. Careful, now.
McCay did not take democracy for granted even in more jingoistic days.
McCay did not take democracy for granted even in more jingoistic days.
26. Well, what do you think?
27. Reason lights a path through many vices. Wonder if he'll make it.
28. Thought is awfully weighed down to be able move quickly and safely up such a narrow winding path.
29. That is a tough crowd blocking the way to that city on the hill.
McCay admired our hero but his chances, by himself, do not look good.
McCay admired our hero but his chances, by himself, do not look good.
30. The Slaver, then and now, is the shame of civilization.
31. Books are the fastest way to travel.
