The Master of the Island.—"They take away one captain from me; but look here, a whole handful of generals! Oh, after all, the arrangement is not so bad."
From "Lustige Blätter" (Berlin).
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE MEN OF TO-DAY
With the Spanish-American War, the Affaire Dreyfus in France, and England's long struggle for supremacy in the Transvaal, the period arbitrarily chosen as the scope of this book comes to a brilliant and dramatic close. But the cartoonist's work is never done. Nimble pencils are still busy, as in the days of Rowlandson and Gillray, in recording and in influencing the trend of history. And although, now and again during the past century, there has been some individual cartoonist whose work has stood out more boldly and prominently than the work of any one of our contemporaries in Europe or in this country stands out to-day, there has never been a time in the whole history of comic art when Caricature has held such sway and maintained such dignity, and has enlisted in her service so many workers of the first talent and rank. Without alluding to the men of France and England, what an array it is that contemporary American caricature presents! C. G. Bush of the New York World, Charles Nelan of the New York Herald, Frederick Burr Opper and Homer Davenport of the New York American and Journal, Mahoney of the Washington Star, Bradley of the Chicago Evening-News, May of the Detroit Journal, "Bart" of the Minneapolis Journal, Mayfield of the New Orleans Times-Democrat, Victor Gillam, carrying on the traditions of his brother—Rogers, Walker, Hedrick, Bowman, McCutcheon, Lambdin, Wallace, Leipziger, Berryman, Holme, Bartholemew, Carter, Steele, Powers, Barritt—and to name these men does not nearly exhaust the list of those artists whose clever work has amused and unconsciously influenced hundreds of thousands of thinking American men and women.
C. G. Bush of "The World." The Dean of Active American Cartoonists.
Willie and his Papa.