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What an interesting post, Liza. I like all the cartoons, but share your affection for the Dan Quayle in particular. I think the jokes about him started with his inability to spell potato, which he spelled with an "e." I also remember a lame comment by George H.W. Bush about Quayle's good looks--as though that would get the women's vote. Unfortunate that the NYer isn't running political cartoons now.

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I really enjoyed that bit of history about the New Yorker and your first cartoons. I also remember the Dan Quayle jokes and his spelling problem. Political/editorial cartoons have been under attack in so many authoritarian countries - they obviously are seen as a powerful subversive tool.

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