Editorial Cartoons

These are the few surviving editorial cartoons that I did for the school newspapers.   I did quite a few of them but they dissapeared over the years.

Growing up during  the Vietnam war and the Nixon years made some of us distrustful of the government.  Sometime in the 70’s I thought the government would use computers  against us and infringe upon our privacy.
Also, at that time my awareness was  hightened by my reading of George Orwell’s 1984. I had the role of big brother  in the college play.

I don’t  remember what year it was but our President Jimmy Carter told reporters that he  was out fishing in his boat and he had been attacked by a swimming rabbit.  He had been having trouble with Teddy Kennedy at the time so guess who that rabbit really was?

The military was spending a huge amount of money on the development of the XM-1 tank.   It was a  “white elephant” because it was very poorly designed and no one in their right mind would want to enter a combat mission with it.  One general reacted to the  outrageous cost by telling reporters that the cost was “just peanuts”.

With all the polution in the air acid rain and acid snow was causing all kinds of damage to the buildings in the cities.   This poor guy is out for a walk with his kid and  the kid got caught in the line of fire from a snowblower.

This one had something to do with education and creationism.   It might have made sense with the article but it doesn’t stand on it’s own, therefore it is a failure as far as editorial cartoons go.

Even though I  wrote the article I can’t reconstruct it.  The doctors are supposed to be educators and they are holding a morter board because they are bringing creationism to life through scientific education. The life-giving “Charge” is in the first amendment and that can be seen very faintly in the lightning bolt.

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