The Gerald Ford Song

Gerald Ford was a decent man

But wrong on every issue

But when it came to the First Lady, I'm a fan

And Betty, we still miss you!

The Runner Up Thread, 1976-2012

 1976: Ford. 1980: Carter

 1980: Carter. 1984: Mondale

 1984: Mondale. 1988: Dukakis

 1988: Dukakis. 1992: Bush

 1992: Bush. 1996: Dole

 1996: Dole. 2000: Gore

 2000: Gore. 2004: Kerry

 2004: Kerry. 2008: McCain

2008: McCain. 2012: Romney

$25 Sale - Original Art - Cranium Frenzy # 6, p. 9

 

Cranium Frenzy # 6, page 9

Medium # paper measure 35.5 x 28 cm. Nonphoto blue pencil with felt tip finishing lines. Drawn in 1990.

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Buttons - Activist - 1974

WIN

On the curl: Bastian Bros Co, Rochester, NY

The brainchild of the Ford Administration, this was an acronym for "Whip Inflation Now." But rather than the grassroots wave the President was hoping for, the WIN campaign became the butt of jokes from a cynical public weary of Watergate and politicians.

Bezango: Rutherford B. Hayes Slept Here, Oct. 1880

Olympia Power & Light, sometime in October, 2010

It's a big deal whenever a President visits the Oly area. The last sitting President to come to these parts was Harry Truman, although Gerald Ford visited Lacey when he was Vice-President in 1974.

The only President to visit McCleary was Franklin Roosevelt. He drove slowly through here waving at citizens in an open car while passing through to visit the Coast. All the schoolchildren lined up to cheer, but anti-union Henry McCleary ordered his workers to stay away.

Cranium Frenzy # 6

1st edition, July or August 1990, McCleary, Washington, 60 copies, light blue cover, enlarged digest.

All subsequent editions are in regular digest format.

1994-1996, available as a print-on-demand comic.

Yellow edition, November or December 1998, 2 copies, pink cover yellow guts.

1st Danger Room Reprint Edition, June 2005, 5 copies, green.

Easily one of the most cynical comix and crankiest intros I've ever created. Maybe it had something to do with the fact I felt I was starting to hit middle age in 1990. Who knows? Not me. But the middle age thing makes a great excuse.

Trivia:

Cover and contents: It's them damn giant reptiles again!

Pages 2-3:
My brother had this song performed on stage in one of his plays. They consulted me about how I would carry the tune if sung out loud. You readers are lucky I don't have access to a mike for this blog, or I'd be singing every song from every comic I post.

Pages 6-7:
I'm an equal opportunity wiseguy in terms of poking at the Right and Left.

Page 9, panel 1: Bush I, Reagan, Nixon, Johnson, Ford, among others, are in that glob.

Page 21, last panel: I drew this whole story around this panel.

Pages 24-25: The bibliography was updated in later editions. I've included a scan from the 2005 version.