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| in UW-Milwaukee Post, April 5, 1990 |
Souvenirback Saturday is taking a week off from addressing Americans' historical illiteracy today, and just tossing together a handful of my cartoons from April, 1990. Aside from their being 30 years old, there's no particular theme or moral here. I just happen to like them.
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| in UW-Milwaukee Post, April 10, 1990 |
Rummaging through my files, I thought this cartoon was about Dennis Franz's butt on
NYPD Blue. In case you were too young to watch
NYPD Blue back in the day, the show broke network TV ground by having
its central character go full dorsal, paving the way for more conventionally handsome buttcheeks to grace the boob tube in the decades since.
But
NYPD Blue didn't premiere until 1993, so it wasn't that. Perhaps it was about Robert Mapplethorpe — although, to the best of my knowledge, he never had a television show.
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| in UW-Parkside Ranger, April 19, 1990 |
Russia didn't want to let go of its Baltic SSRs, and NATO leaders were reluctant to appear too eager for their independence. I like this cartoon because it gave me an opportunity to draw several world leaders together, including some, like the Prime Minister of Spain, whom I never drew before or since.
I drew this for the Racine
Journal Times, but since I don't see it in the scrapbook my mother kept of my cartoons, I think they must not have used it. David was the mayor of Burlington, Wisconsin, who got caught having included a little white lie in his campaign autobiography. Sure, it didn't measure up to misappropriating
Neil Kinnock's father's life story, but I thought it made for a funny cartoon.
Once upon a time, children, being caught in a lie — any lie at all, no matter how inconsequential — could spell the end of one's political career. Believe it or not.
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| in UW-Parkside Ranger, April 26, 1990 |
Speaking of stealing things: I wasn't going to include this cartoon, since even as an homage to Walt Kelly's
Pogo, it wasn't particularly original. But having just made an oblique reference to a
Pogo character earlier this week, it's probably a good idea to remind myself not to keep going to that well too often.
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| in UW-Milwaukee Post, May 1, 1990 |
And finally, proof that not every cartoon I drew of President George H.W. Bush was critical of him.
What a double edged sword it is when cartoons that we drew years ago are just as applicable today as they were when we drew them. It's an ego boost to believe that we were prescient then but very sad that the same situations we poked fun at are still a big part of our cultural landscape. Really good stuff.
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