back  next  MSU Political Cartoons © 1974-5-6 Tom Ferguson    6 pages here: I would submit cartoons as I did them and the MSU student
daily would use them as space allowed, probably several a week. This was the time of the U.S. overthrow of democracy in Chile, the
winding down of the Vietnam war, the successor to a disgraced Nixon abiding comicly at the White House. The actually presiding
bully, Henry Kissinger, was accurately named a war criminal in Doonsebury and the marginal press but routinely presented as
a serious, presumed ethical, player by the mainstream media. There are also illustrations I would do for articles here.
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This was actually done just as Nixon resigned, just before I left for MSU. I took it to
the daily paper in my home town and they said it was more appropriate before the resignation.
I don't think they would have run it then either, not even as a letter to the editor.
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Apparently the Nixon one above was done prior also to MSU. The one below left used my studio mate Jim Marsh, who
loved to read Nietszche as a bridge to discredit the shallow President Ford. The other drawing, an illustration, produced a call from someone complaining of anti-semitism. The editor asked, was that your intent? I said no, never crossed my mind. He said ok.
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