{"id":1810,"date":"2018-11-08T16:47:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T21:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/?p=1810"},"modified":"2018-11-09T07:49:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T12:49:29","slug":"tomes-treasures-cruikshanks-comic-almanack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2018\/11\/08\/tomes-treasures-cruikshanks-comic-almanack\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomes &amp; Treasures: Cruikshank&#8217;s Comic Almanack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">George Cruikshank was a 19th century British caricaturist best known for illustrating his friend Charles Dickens\u2019s novels, such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Oliver Twist.<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0One of the more interesting (and amusing) of his works that we have in the library, though, is his <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Comic Almanack<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. A little bit like the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Onion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> today, it contained cartoons and sociopolitical satire. One of the pieces it features is a comedic horoscope, in which he advises those born in March that \u201cnow is the time to force your cucumbers, but if they will not come by being forced, try what can be done by persuasion. All of your efforts will be useless if your cucumbers are not in the right frame of mind\u201d! He also includes a list of \u201cpopular errors,\u201d pictured here. Incredibly popular during its time, one edition a year was published between 1835 and 1853, and it is said that his attacks on the royal family were so severe that King George even paid him off not to caricature him!<\/span><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1811 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/11\/DSC00322-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"459\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/11\/DSC00322-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/11\/DSC00322-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/11\/DSC00322-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/118\/2018\/11\/DSC00322-360x270.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 459px) 100vw, 459px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Cruikshank was a 19th century British caricaturist best known for illustrating his friend Charles Dickens\u2019s novels, such as Oliver <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/2018\/11\/08\/tomes-treasures-cruikshanks-comic-almanack\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":859,"featured_media":1812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tomes-treasures","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/859"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1816,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions\/1816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/engblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}