The Complete Cartoon Archive
Every plate we can restore — the full run.
The Wasp, published in San Francisco from 1876, was the West Coast's answer to Puck — a color satirical weekly with a sting. Its chromolithographs are vivid and, at times, ugly: like much of the era's press it trafficked in anti-Chinese and other racist caricature, which we present as a historical record and label honestly rather than scrub. This is the archive we have recovered and restored — public domain, digitally cleaned and labeled at comicbooks.com.
Funeral of Lazarus
General S. W. Backus, Owner of *The Wasp*
Funeral of Lazarus
Senator John D. Works, 1911
The Result of Reducing Our Army
The Modern Newspaper
Handy Lists of Technical Literature (1889)
An Alphabetical List of Engravings Declared at the Office of the Printsellers' Association, London
All works shown are in the public domain, digitally restored by comicbooks.com.