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Ronald Reagan Political Cartoons
Sep
28
2011
Rob TornoeRob Tornoe is the owner/editor of Punchline Magazine and a cartoonist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Press of Atlantic City and WHYY. He writes about the media and the cartoon industry for Editor & Publisher.
Sep
28
2011
Making Sense by Michael Reagan There’s an old curse that begs, “O that mine enemy would write a book.” That’s a desire getting a big play in the debates between Mitt Romney and Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who are both trashing my Dad Ronald Reagan’s so-called “11th Commandment,” that Republicans must refrain from attacking each other in public. Like just [Read More]
Sep
12
2011
I’m in the process of moving, and digging through many years of accumulated junk in my house, and I came across this yellowed old tearsheet from the beginning of 1981, which I think is my first, published editorial cartoon. Reagan had just taken office and was appointing his cabinet; Fortune Magazine commissioned young Daryl to draw the new “Reaganomics” economic team that was “coming out of the starting gates.”
I was fresh out of college, new to Manhattan, starting out as a cartoon illustrator and just about to start working for Jim Henson’s Muppets, back in 1981. The “four horsemen of the economy” are Donald Regan, Martin Anderson, Murray Weidenbaum and David Stockman, with Ed Meese and Reagan watching.
I’ve been finding a lot of yellowed, crispy oldies as I dig through the moving muck. There are mountains of Muppets in the garage. Moving is hell.
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