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 Edward Jump

General S. W. Backus, Owner of *The Wasp* Not stated

Funeral of Lazarus Edward Jump

Senator John D. Works, 1911 The Wasp Publishing Company

The Result of Reducing Our Army George Frederick Keller

The Modern Newspaper Lewis

Handy Lists of Technical Literature (1889) Haferkorn, Henry Ernest, 1859-1933.; Heise, Paul.

An Alphabetical List of Engravings Declared at the Office of the Printsellers' Association, London Incorporated Printsellers' Association (London, England); Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection (Library of Congress)

All works shown are in the public domain, digitally restored by ComicBooks.com.