Sunday, April 28, 2024

"Tin Soldiers and Nixon Coming" Toons


A hearty welcome back to Two Party Opera.
Proceed here to see Genocide Joe and Tricky Dick sharing ice cream cones, along with a previous installment where the two discuss human rights.


A cartoonist's guide to navigating 'normal'

70 Years of Skewering
In its first issue, on December 13, 1954, the Texas Observer ran a political cartoon by Don Bartlett taking a swipe at the Republican-leaning tendencies of Democratic Governor Allan Shivers. Beside it ran Observer founding editor Ronnie Dugger’s ambitious, if eccentric, manifesto. “We will twit the self-important and honor the truly important,” he wrote. “We will lay the bark to the dignity of any public man any time we see fit.”

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