Chicago Tribune – The Map Room

McCutcheon’s 1908 Cartoon

Published on 10 April 2016 by Jonathan Crowe

New York Times graphics editor Tim Wallace stumbled across a 1908 Chicago Tribune cartoon by John T. McCutcheon that’s older than other examples of “perception-based” maps he was aware of.

Perception-based map genre is at least 30 years older than I thought it was. Finance Committee 1908 @chicagotribune pic.twitter.com/bDnAjei8r6

— Tim Wallace (@wallacetim) March 16, 2016

(Though my previous entry contained a link to a 1922 McCutcheon cartoon, which only moves the clock back only 14 years.)

McCutcheon’s View

Published on 22 March 201627 January 2018 by Jonathan Crowe

Three years ago, the Newberry Library posted a note about a 1922 cartoon from the Chicago Tribune: “The New Yorker’s Idea of the Map of the United States” by John T. McCutcheon bears a strong resemblance to Saul Steinberg’s famous 29 March 1976 New Yorker cover, whose inspiration is often traced to Daniel K. Wallingford’s A New Yorker’s Idea of the United States (1937). See the gallery below.