↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Jefferson: "James Garfield, is that your phone ringing?" Garfield: "Ugh. This same number all week. It just comes up 'Guiteau.'" Panel 2: James Garfield takes out his mobile version of the first commercial telephone from 1877. It’s[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptTwo Party Opera Opinion Polls Comics have played an important part in American history, so we asked everyday American voters: What is your favorite comic? Abigail Adams, first Second Lady and second First Lady, "I enjoy the drawings of[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Old John Quincy Adams recounts while his memories play in the background. John Quincy Adams: "My honored mother, Abigail Adams, always warned me against failure." Abigail Adams: "If you indulge yourself in the practise of any foible[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Latin phrase in today’s comic is cited from John Adams quoting Horace’s Ars Poetica in a letter to JQA in 1777. Note the date as this would have been addressed to a nine-year-old. Yes, “modern-day lens” and all that[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I believe “Atlas of Independence” was coined by Richard Stockton, Declaration of Independence signer from the great state of New Jersey (who was captured and tortured for months by the British), at least according to John Adams’s grandson, Charles Francis[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Inside Peacefield, the home of John and Abigail Adams. Make sure to follow 2PO on Twitter and Instagram for additional goodies — yesterday I shared a few in-progress screenshots of building the Peacefield Long Room, complete with four-seated ottoman and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
That John Adams is always running into redcoats. It’s almost like there’s a pattern to it… ↓ TranscriptPanel 1: John Adams is finishing what is clearly a brutal takedown of a British redcoat. Adams: "The right of a nation to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s worth noting that under the Marjorie Taylor Greene “National Divorce” proposal for a new Ordinance of Secession, her own state of Georgia would be included in “Liberal America,” considering the 2020 electoral map. So is this a one time[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Presidents’ Day poem from Two Party Opera, starring Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Jimmy Carter, George Washington, John Quincy Adams, and James Madison. ↓ TranscriptA poem written across four panels: "Roosevelts are Red, Roosevelts are Blue, Happy[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
↓ TranscriptPanel 1: Washington: "Political parties. Factions. Not a fan. Count me out. The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, is itself a frightful despotism." Lincoln: "Washington loves to claim he's non-partisan." Panel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
