Political Conventions: A Snapshot From 1968

Benjamin Chambers writes:
What with the Democratic Convention going on and all, it was highly serendipitous to find a two-page spread of great cartoons entitled “Political Conventions” by James Stevenson in the August 25, 1968 issue of The New Yorker. I couldn’t find them among “Stevenson’s work “:http://www.cartoonbank.com/search_results_category.asp?sitetype=1&section=all&keyword=james+Stevenson&advanced=0&x=12&y=13featured at the Cartoon Bank, so I’ve uploaded a couple of my favorites below. (For the complete set, I’m afraid you’ll have to reach for the Complete New Yorker.) Stevenson has always been one of my favorite cartoonists; “click here”:http://biography.jrank.org/pages/1693/Stevenson-James-1929.html for a very thorough profile of his artistic career.
While chuckling at Stevenson’s quietly satirical sketches, though, I’ll admit I experienced a bit of cognitive dissonance, since after all, they were published during the infamous 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Here’s the first (click to make it bigger):
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And here’s the second one (click on it for a larger version):
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