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2018 - September
20 comics.
We The People – Invoking The 25th
As a political cartoonist, I know it’s part of some unwritten rule that I should just post some schmaltzy comic to “never forget” September 11th, and I am sensitive to that, but a week ago, we learned of an unelected[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I Am Part of the Resistance Inside the Washington Administration
on September 10, 2018
The National Gazette was an anti-federalist newspaper that hit George Washington and his administration pretty hard towards the end of his first term and only got worse and more vitriolic for his second term. It was also no stranger to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Bad Luck of Robert Todd Lincoln
Supposedly, the actual quote is “there is a certain fatality about presidential functions when I am present” when turning down a future invitation. His last public appearance was at the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial on May 30, 1922, standing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
William McKinley had a garden of red carnations at the White House and would hand them out to guests. As the comic says, he wore one every day of his life after being given one by Dr. L.L. Lamborn, McKinley’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today is the two-year anniversary of Two Party Opera! My career has a comic artist has historically been spotty, so I am amazed that I’ve been able to keep this thing going consistently for this long. Through the good and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
