Tricky Dick and Ike 1956

I believe I drew this characture in 1956 when Eisenhower was running for a second term and there was pressure to drop Richard Nixon from the ticket, thus the question mark above Ike's head. You can read a history of the Drop Nixon campaign of 1956 by clicking on the title of this post.

Ike and Nixon in 1959.

Actor: George C. Scott

President Dwight David Eisenhower

Judge Owen J. Roberts 1959

I graduated from Owen J. Roberts High School in 1959. This was my caricature of the school's namesake.

Political Comments 1968

PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES 1968

It was a violable time in 1968. I was in my radical Hippie period. Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers and Robert Kennedy had all been assassinated. President Johnson had decided not to run again for the office. There had been riots in our cities over civil rights and George Wallace was running as a third party representative of segregation forever.

This was a doodle I made of the 1968 Presidential candidates with some sarcastic comments I attributed to each. changed?

Richard M. Nixon

What we need...and remember...I told you and if Alger Hiss ever...Of course we have to being me and after

Hubert H. Humphrey

I hear a lot about America losing faith, and say baloney. It has faith just as I when I started the Peace Corp., the Job Corp., and the Declaration of Independence.




President Lyndon B. Johnson

My place in history is assured by Sam Rayburn and all the saints. Ah was the best president Vietnam ever had.

Eugene McCarthy

The people need a forum. The people? Don't they count?

Robert F. Kennedy

(On Tombstone)

Here lies Robert Kennedy and the American Dream. "No sadder words ever penned then it might have been."

George Wallace

All ah want to do is bring back the America of the individuals. Git the gov't out of everything and give them pseudo-intellectuals a bath and haircut and send them to Vietnam. Then the negras can laugh again and be happy heah on my plantation.

On the back of this drawing I had written this poem:

Hooray for the red, white and gray.

The red blood claimed in freedom's name.

The white of the whitewash

In the politician's mouth.

Gray of the people.

Who's Who at the Psycho Zoo #31 by Lem

Some remarks about this next sequence:

Who's Who at the Psycho Zoo beings a series where Pacquin Penguin believes Charles de Gaulle is his "daddy". You hear little about de Gaulle these days, at least in America. You hear about Charles de Gualle Airport in France, but that doesn't tell you much about the man.

de Gualle was a great military leader and hero of France. Much like Eisenhower here after World War II, he rose to become President of France and served two seven-year terms, not consecutively. He was very outspoken and controversial in the 1960s and staunchly pro-France. He withdrew France from NATO, ordered all foreign military units out of France, criticized the USA over Vietnam, backed the Arabs against Israel because he wanted to preserve the oil flow to France and outraged Canadians when he yelled "Viva le Quebec libre" from a balcony during a speech at the Canadian Centennial World Fair.

In other words, throughout the 'sixties, de Gualle was ever-present in the news. I was struck by how much his profile, with his long nose and paunchy body, resembled a penguin. Need I say more?

Who's Who at the Psycho Zoo #32 by Lem

Who's Who at the Psycho Zoo #33 by Lem

Who's Who at the Psycho Zoo #34 by Lem