From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A fortune teller named Madame Clarity looks into a crystal ball and sees, "La. fiscal crisis." She appears dismayed. A man sits in a chair opposite, and he is labeled, "Special...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Khomeini stands at the open door of a refrigerator that has frozen over. The freezer door has a large button labeled "Release hostages" and is also labeled "Defrost...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large man is carried on a stretcher from an ambulance to “Baton Rouge emergency entrance” of a hospital by three ambulance attendants. One of the attendants holds an IV...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large full moon shines low on the horizon just off the coast of Florida. Hotels are in the background; the beach and a palm tree are in the foreground. The moon's face [Nikita...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man labeled, "Senate committee" looks down at a book on a table, with "La. fiscal crisis" on the cover. He yells, "Quick!...Fix!!" A man in a plaid suit, bowler hat, and...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Ayatollah Khomeini stands in front of a wall covered in vertical and diagonal tick marks and labeled, "Days in the lives of U.S. hostages." He holds a paper with four vertical...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. City Hall in New Orleans is shown in the background with "City in crisis" above it. In the foreground is a voting booth with curtain open to reveal the voting machine inside....
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man dressed in colonial clothing labeled, "N.O." leans on the bar at the Blue Dollar Saloon, a drinking establishment. A large bottle labeled "Ol' fiscal crisis" stands on the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An Arab man is riding a camel that is labeled, "Lebanon Crisis," and holds a bloodstained knife over his head. The Arab man is labeled, "Arab against Arab," and in the...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. Charles de Gaulle is sitting at a desk on top of the globe. On the desk is a crystal ball labeled, "World's problems," and de Gaulle's hands are stretched out toward it. Behind...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A map of Louisiana is the backdrop for this cartoon. A man whose head and neck are a pipe wrench sits at the edge of a manufacturing facility. The sign above the factory reads,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A man with a bomb for a head, labeled "Bombings" holds a pipe wrench in one hand. Around him are the words, "Law violations...Racketeering." Behind him is a tourism sign that...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. An overweight woman stands on a scale. Her dress is covered in dollar signs and is labeled, "Growing U.S. dollar crisis." She holds a shoe box labeled, "Sweet spending bon-bons"...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. A large ship labeled "U.S. fiscal policies" is sailing through water in which floats three warning buoys and an iceberg. The buoys have signs: "Financial crisis--Federal Reserve...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. The Louisiana stat house is on the left side of the cartoon, and the tower is labeled, "12-day session of the Legislature." Nearby on the ground by the building is a sign...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Ed Valtman. Uncle Sam is shown standing tall as a giant, shaking his fist and boasting, "We're the most powerful nation in the world." At ground level, a small Ayatollah Khomeini has tied Uncle...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. President Jimmy Carter and a man labeled "Congress," both blindfolded, are trying to walk in a room. Both have their hands out trying to detect obstacles. Each also has a foot out...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Karl Hubenthal. Charles de Gaulle is pictured with a very large nose labeled "Inflated franc crisis." A tightly buckled belt encircles his nose, with a tag hanging from the belt labeled...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Roy Peterson. Uncle Sam is in the process of shoveling rock out of the bottom of a deep hole that he has dug in a cliff face. His digging has left a precarious, barely supported tower of rock,...
From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. Uncle Sam kneels at the edge of a bridge labeled "Bridge To Moscow" and tries to attach a board with his claw hammer. Below him on the ground is Leonid Brezhnev (labeled...
