"They're Demanding Equal Time" (original editorial cartoon)

 

Newton Pratt

 

c. 1959  

ink on textured wove 

10 3/4 x 17 9/16" image size 

ink signed in image, lower right 

1 of 1 unique 

inked copy throughout 

 

texted wove 

published 

Sacramento Bee 

SARY107 

$300.00 

This single-panel comic appears to refer to the 1959 U.S. presidential nominees of both the Republican and Democratic parties, with a tongue-in-cheek nod to Richard Nixon's contentious visit to Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow and Khrushchev's ensuing visit to California. The line-up of presidential and vice presidential hopefuls includes, from left to right: California governor Edmund G. Brown; Massachusetts senator John F. Kennedy; Missouri senator Stuart Symington; Texas senator Lyndon B. Johnson; Minnesota senator Hubert Humphrey; and New York senator Nelson Rockefeller ("Rocky"). California senator Richard Nixon stands apart from them in front of a cluster of microphones set up beside an airplane's boarding stairs, holding a bouquet. A banner behind him reads, "Welcome Mr. K."