Produced by Chris Curnow, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Transcriber’s Note This eBook has no Table of Contents, but all of the cartoons are listed in the Index at the end. [Illustration: CARTOONS FROM “PUCK” 1877–1893 ] Copyright, 1893, by KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN. [Illustration] 300 COPIES PRINTED AND BOUND IN THIS MANNER, OF WHICH THIS IS NO. 92. [Illustration: J.K. 1893 Jos. Keppler.] J. KEPPLER A SELECTION OF CARTOONS FROM PUCK BY JOSEPH KEPPLER WITH TEXT AND INTRODUCTION BY H. C. BUNNER [Illustration] KEPPLER & SCHWARZMANN NEW YORK MDCCCXCIII [Illustration] INTRODUCTION. So careless has been the popular use of the words “_cartoonist_” and “_caricaturist_,” that to many minds they no doubt seem practically interchangeable. Yet, as a matter of fact, not only do the two titles imply two different functions of pictorial satiric art, but, although there is a school of that art for almost every one of the great races of civilized men, there is but one school that positively demands the union of these two factors in the work of its pupils. That school is the German school, and it is Mr. Joseph Keppler who, as an American cartoonist and caricaturist, has not only imposed its canons and traditions upon this country, but has, in so doing, placed himself at its head, both in this country and in Europe, by virtue of a genius that has made him eminent above the generation of his masters. The spirit of French comic art turns distinctly--and delightfully--to caricature. The French “cartoon”--the pictorial lampoon, that is--has but to exhibit in an exaggerated form the objectionable characteristics of an individual, to serve its purpose and to touch its public. It is the revelation of character, of purpose, of intellectual or moral scope which affects, apparently, the French mind, by nature rather observant than deductive. The Anglo-Saxon spirit, less quickly perceptive, more deliberately logical, asks something beyond this of the man who tries to reason with it in a picture. It must be approached by means of a fable, a parable, an allegory, something that will stand the test of argument and comparison. Caricature, or the significant exaggeration of physical characteristics, may or may not be an incident to this.