This is my very first cartoon, drawn when I was a teenager and not yet buying my own underwear, cheese or gasoline. Note the signing of my name with an old typewriter, an act of pretension meant to indicate to my audience that I should be taken more as a writer and a social philosopher than as a cartoonist. (I had no cartoonist heroes; still don't, bunch of hacks.) Also, I believe that the magic marker used to deliberately not fill in the lines of the Iranians' legs was inspired by the artwork on Billy Squier's second lp, an album whose influence we’re still feeling today as we bask triumphantly in the dull light of our own high functioning mediocrity. Anyway, the cartoon, if I remember correctly, is about Ronald Reagan's blatantly public gift of a Bible to the same Iranian government he was covertly selling weapons to.
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