July 27
December 22nd, 2009
On May 9, 1754, the first American newspaper cartoon was published. The illustration in Benjamin Franklin’s “Pennsylvania Gazette” showed a snake cut into sections, each part representing an American colony. The caption read, “Join or die.”
What a hoot! Bil Keane must have had a hand in that one.
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