Saturday, May 7, 2011
Mad Hatters Tea Party International
From about 1971 to 1974, I teamed up with a bookdealer and cartoonist from Victoria, B.C. named John Newberry to form a political entity called the Mad Hatters Tea Party International. John was a couple years older than myself and we shared an interest in the role of comix in the political process.
As the MHTPI we created silk-screened posters, mimeo broadsides, and even an ad in the Daily Olympian. This particular broadside was printed on legal size paper using the same mimeograph machine I used to print Gimmie Comics # 1 in 1973.
Labels:
Daily Olympian,
Elections,
Gimmie Comics # 1,
John Newberry,
Mad Hatters Tea Party International,
Posters,
Richard Nixon,
Victoria BC,
Watergate