KNOCK ME OFF MY FEET! So today for the first time in my life, I have an appointment with the podiatrist. I'll spare you the medical details because they're not interesting and they're usually not pretty. But I say to the podiatrist's assistant, a young woman, "Are you registered to vote?" And she says, "Yes." And I say "Don't forget to vote!" and she says "Oh, we won't forget to vote!" It sounds to me like there's more than one of them and they can't wait to vote! I forget to ask the doctor if he's registered to vote, but I figure anybody who can figure out how to get through podiatry school is probably capable of figuring out how to register to vote, so, after a short surgical procedure, I move on to the checkout desk where I ask the woman there if she's registered to vote. She seems startled by the question, stammers and sputters something about "...that Donald..." and is clearly...
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Miami Adventure
It's Spring of 1970, I'm nineteen years old and hungry and homeless in Miami Beach, running a shoeshine stand making about $5 a day in front of a barbershop near the Fountainbleau Hotel. One day a young black guy comes along and asks me to shine his $100 alligator shoes. He climbs up and sits in the chair and after a couple of minutes he says to me “Haven't you ever shined shoes before?” “No,” I admit to him and he offers to show me how to shine shoes the right way, and we trade places. So I'm sitting there high in the chair, looking out on Collins A venue, while this guy is shining his own $100 alligator shoes which I'm wearing and I see this big old black Cadillac pull up and double park in front of us. I'm watching the scene unfolding - it seemed like it was happening in slow motion - and I'm thinking 'Oh, this is gonna be good.' A big guy smoking a cigar gets out of the driver's seat and looks over at us and says “...
Ed King So, this one guy is looking through the sample copy of 'Alternative Facts' and he looks at the sign and he says, "You sellin' these for twenty-seven cents each?!" And I say, "No, that's twenty-seven DOLLARS." And he gets a shocked look on his face and mumbles something and quickly puts the book back in the bin. I guess he was disappointed because for a second there he thought he was really gonna get the buy of a lifetime!
Abraham Schecter and I went to the same high school in New York (The High School of Art & Design) about fifteen years apart, and we both ended up in Portland, Maine. He is the librarian at the Portland Room at the Portland Public Library. He is an archivist, bookbinder, photographer (this is his photo), journalist, philosopher, and intellectual. 'Alternative Facts' can be found on the shelves of the PPL.
ALTERNATIVE FACTS CARTOONS BY ED KING 'ALTERNATIVE FACTS' is a collection of nearly 100 cartoons drawn over the past 30 years. To order a copy of 'Alternative Facts': -Using PayPal: Email edkingcartoons@gmail.com $27 plus $2 shipping -Send check to: Ed King 48 Pleasant Street, #8 Portland, ME 04101 Thank you!
ALTERNATIVE FACTS CARTOONS BY ED KING 'ALTERNATIVE FACTS' is a collection of nearly 100 cartoons drawn over the past 30 years. To order a copy of 'Alternative Facts': -Using PayPal: Email edkingcartoons@gmail.com $27 plus $2 shipping -Send check to: Ed King 48 Pleasant Street, #8 Portland, ME 04101 Thank you!
The Road Not Taken By Robert Frost ... Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.
FAKE NOSE I kept hearing a phrase over and over and over again until the words themselves started to become meaningless and then even the sound of the words started to blur and morph and become something totally different than what they were originally meant to be. That's when this cartoon came to me.
'ALTERNATIVE FACTS' 'Alternative Facts' is a fairly new expression, coined by Trump aide Kellyanne Conway on January 23, 2017 to defend Press Secretary's Sean Spicer's description of the crowd size at the Presidential Inauguration in Washington. (“This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe.”) Although the expression is new, the idea behind it is not, which I realized as I was putting together the collection of cartoons which is published under that title. I began to see that each of the cartoons that I chose for the collection was my own interpretation of events that I had witnessed or ideas that I considered - my own 'alternative facts.' This collection is not strictly concerned with the current 'alternative facts' era either, although a few of the cartoons are directly inspired by Trump. Some of the drawings were created more than thirty years ago, but still fit...
ALTERNATIVE FACTS CARTOONS BY ED KING 'ALTERNATIVE FACTS' is a collection of nearly 100 cartoons drawn over the past 30 years. To order a copy of 'Alternative Facts': -Using PayPal: Email edkingcartoons@gmail.com $27 plus $2 shipping -Send check to: Ed King 48 Pleasant Street, #8 Portland, ME 04101 Thank you!
