babylonfalling: Photo of Reagan by Jeffrey Blankfort. San Francisco Express Times, November 20, 1968.Click here to zoom.  Todd Gitlin’s long ass article continues here and here I haven’t come across many illustrations parodying Reagan in the underground press of the 60s. He was of course wildly unpopular among sensible people for advocating—as Governor of California—the use of force in crushing the student strikes at SF State and those throughout the UC system. His car was often egged and he was constantly heckled.  I remember reading a story about Reagan at a UC Berkeley demonstration snapping back at a chant of “Fuck Reagan” with “Fuck Eldridge Cleaver”.  Anyway all the truly great satirical illustrations came with his presidency and to commemorate what would be Reagan’s 100th birthday Robert Newman has put together a great accumulation of the best of them over at the Society of Publication Designers http://www.spd.org/2011/01/happy-birthday-ronald-reagan.php February 6 marks the 100th birthday of President Ronald Reagan. Thanks to the combined efforts of the Newmanology Facebook page and the Stephen Kroninger Drawger page, we’ve collected a batch of classic Reagan publication covers, posters, and illustrations from the 1980s. These feature the talents of Gary Panter, Sue Coe, Anita Kunz, Ralph Steadman, Julian Allen, Robert Grossman, and more, as well as art directors Roger Black, Louise Kollenbaum, and the Gran Fury design collective. View high resolution

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Photo of Reagan by Jeffrey Blankfort. San Francisco Express Times, November 20, 1968.

Click here to zoom.  Todd Gitlin’s long ass article continues here and here

I haven’t come across many illustrations parodying Reagan in the underground press of the 60s. He was of course wildly unpopular among sensible people for advocating—as Governor of California—the use of force in crushing the student strikes at SF State and those throughout the UC system. His car was often egged and he was constantly heckled.  I remember reading a story about Reagan at a UC Berkeley demonstration snapping back at a chant of “Fuck Reagan” with “Fuck Eldridge Cleaver”. 

Anyway all the truly great satirical illustrations came with his presidency and to commemorate what would be Reagan’s 100th birthday Robert Newman has put together a great accumulation of the best of them over at the Society of Publication Designers

http://www.spd.org/2011/01/happy-birthday-ronald-reagan.php

February 6 marks the 100th birthday of President Ronald Reagan. Thanks to the combined efforts of the Newmanology Facebook page and the Stephen Kroninger Drawger page, we’ve collected a batch of classic Reagan publication covers, posters, and illustrations from the 1980s. These feature the talents of Gary Panter, Sue Coe, Anita Kunz, Ralph Steadman, Julian Allen, Robert Grossman, and more, as well as art directors Roger Black, Louise Kollenbaum, and the Gran Fury design collective.

(Reblogged from babylonfalling)

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