From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. George Wallace is dressed as a boxer and is hitting two punching bags, one with his left hand and one with his right. One punching bag is drawn to resemble the head of a donkey,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Five tall trees are each marked with a letter and together they spell, "Polls." Arrows on the trees are pointing in different directions; some are labeled, "Nixon would run...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. South Vietnam's Nguyen Cao Ky and Nationalist China's Chiang Kai-shek stand before a giant in army uniform, labeled "U.S.," who is shown from the hips down. Ky, a young man...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A billboard identifies "George Wallace's political breeding farm" to motorists on the road that passes in front of the farm. In the several animal pens are hybrid creatures that...
From the AAEC Editorial Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An unhappy baby is in a stroller labeled "Recession." The baby's clothes and blanket are patched. The end of the stroller has a graph labeled "Economy" with a downward trend line. Two...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An overweight man dressed in jogging clothes and labeled "Deficit" runs in the Washington City Classic. Behind him struggling to catch up are several men. One has an elephant...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and a man with an elephant head walk alongside a tall wooden fence, looking up fearfully at a huge jack-o-lantern labeled "Unemployment." On the other side of the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Walter Mondale, skiing down a slope, has hit a tree. Gary Hart (with a heart on his sweater), skiing down without incident, is smiling at Mondale.
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Independent presidential candidate John Anderson stands near two trees labeled "Reagan" and "Carter." Both trees are tapped to collect sap, with a bucket hanging from each tap....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Two men, one with an elephant head and one with a donkey head, are working either end of a large saw to cut down a huge tree. The man with the donkey head is labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A slim man with the head of a donkey is dressed in shabby, patched clothes, and he holds a newspaper with a headline, “The Conoco story.” A much larger man with an elephant...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Walter Mondale, Jesse Jackson, and Gary Hart are dressed in overalls, and Mondale carries a hammer. They have built a tall wooden platform with a plank labeled "Unity" attached...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Edward Kennedy is dressed as a painter. In one hand, he holds a paint brush and in the other a large coloring book called "'80 and the polls." The face of Jimmy Carter is on the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant struggles to carry on his back a large box labeled, "Fall elections...Budget deficit...Recession." A donkey stands nearby and says, "And they call me the beast of...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The cartoon is drawn in three panels. The first panel shows Jimmy Carter smiling and laughing while saying, "I'm ahead." The second shows Walter Mondale saying, "I'm back." The...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan stands in front of a taller man, Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, who is labeled "26 new House members." In the background is the dome of the U.S. Capitol,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An elephant and a donkey wearing suits stand near a brick wall looking up at windows set into the wall. Each carries a briefcase; the elephant's case is labeled "Returning...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man [Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill?] labeled "Demo. House" is dressed as the Easter Bunny and is digging a hole beside a tree on the lawn of the White House. A large basket...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ronald Reagan and David Stockman stand together looking at a steamroller labeled "Tax cut coalition." The rollers are labeled, "Republicans" and "Southern Democrats." On the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Walter Mondale holds up a large ticket that reads, "Mondale and Ferraro...1984 presidential sweepstakes...Elect bearer." Mondale is thinking, "Geraldine dresses up the ticket."