Editing Thomas Nast (section)

===After ''Harper's Weekly''===
[[File:Thomas Nast (1840-1902) (3467747948).jpg|thumb|Thomas Nast, 1902]]

In 1890, Nast published ''Thomas Nast's Christmas Drawings for the Human Race''.<ref name="Oxford" /> He contributed cartoons in various publications, notably the ''[[The Illustrated American|Illustrated American]]'', but was unable to regain his earlier popularity. His mode of cartooning had come to be seen as outdated, and a more relaxed style exemplified by the work of [[Joseph Keppler]] was in vogue.<ref>Halloran 2012, p. 272.</ref> Health problems, which included pain in his hands which had troubled him since the 1870s, affected his ability to work.

In 1892, he took control of a failing magazine, the ''New York Gazette'', and renamed it ''Nast's Weekly''. Now returned to the Republican fold, Nast used the ''Weekly'' as a vehicle for his cartoons supporting [[Benjamin Harrison]] for president. The magazine had little impact and ceased publication seven months after it began, shortly after Harrison's defeat.<ref>Paine 1974, p. 540, Halloran 2012, p. 275.</ref>

The failure of ''Nast's Weekly'' left Nast with few financial resources. He received a few commissions for oil paintings and drew book illustrations. In 1902, he applied for a job in the State Department, hoping to secure a consular position in western Europe.<ref name="Halloran_278" /> Although no such position was available, President [[Theodore Roosevelt]] was an admirer of the artist and offered him an appointment as the United States' Consul General to [[Guayaquil]], [[Ecuador]] in [[South America]].<ref name="Halloran_278">Halloran 2012, p. 278.</ref> Nast accepted the position and traveled to Ecuador on July 1, 1902.<ref name="Halloran_278" /> During a subsequent [[yellow fever]] outbreak, Nast remained on the job, helping numerous diplomatic missions and businesses escape the contagion. He contracted the disease and died on December 7 of that year.<ref name="Oxford" /> His body was returned to the United States, where he was interred in the [[Woodlawn Cemetery (Bronx, New York)|Woodlawn Cemetery]] in [[The Bronx]], [[New York City]].