Buttons - Presidential Campaign - 1968

Wallace for President

Favorite Movie Quotes: George Wallace

Big Jim Folsom on the voters: "Now well, no George. Sometimes they can go both ways. See, they're just like you and me, they've got goodness and meanness in them, angel and a demon. A leader can't just be a reflection. A leader got to encourage them sometimes to listen to that angel. I only trust you'll never be scared to risk that connection with the people in order to do what's right. Believe me, George."

[Reviewed in Cheaper by the Dozen 32]

1968: RFK vs. Nixon

I ran across this political cartoon I drew in, I'm guessing, April 1968. Robert Kennedy throws away a LBJ voodoo doll as he races Nixon to the Capitol. The American eagle looks wary while Gene McCarthy has dug a hole to stop RFK.

Johnson had dropped out of the race in March 1968, Kennedy was assassinated in June 1968. I'm not sure why LBJ makes that 3rd Party reference since by April Gov. George Wallace of Alabama had already announced he was running under the American Independent Party banner.

The drawing is too big to scan in one swoop. But here it is in pieces.

State of Beings #1: Alabama

This was the first of a series of irregular comic supplements I included in the biweekly City Limits Gazette. They were usually 4 p. digest-size things, making them sort an extended minicomic.

The first issue was an insert to CLG # Banjo on my knee (Sept. 1991). As you can see I employed a creative numbering system simply to screw up serials librarians and their neat little check-in cards.

I'm guessing at this point in CLG's history the print run was between 50-65 copies.

This issue contains probably my only caricature of George Wallace, who was still alive at the time this was published.