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A Millennium Story
A Millennium Story
A Millennium Story

A Millennium Story

Artist (American, born Australia, 1935)
Publisher (American, founded 1970)
Date1999
Mediumetching
DimensionsImage: 13 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (34.9 x 27.6 cm)
Plate Mark: 13 3/4 x 10 7/8 in. (34.9 x 27.6 cm)
Support: 18 15/16 x 16 in. (48.1 x 40.6 cm)
ClassificationsGraphic
Credit LineMuseum purchase, 2013
Object number2013.35.16
DescriptionA 12th panel cartoon news strip featuring a bearded man going through the highlights of the 20th century. Caricatures of Richard Nixon and John Wayne are included as some of the 20th century highlights as well as the mushroom cloud and bombs.
Text Entries

The text in the first panel reads: A Millennium Story. In the fall of 1900 Rip Van Winkle Jr. went to sleep in the forest...

The text in the second panel reads: And woke up again 100 years later. Christ! The time!!

The text in the third panel reads: I've missed everything! Every Goddam thing!

The text in the fourth panel reads: I missed the Great Depression.

The text in the fifth panel reads: Shit! I missed two world wars, one cold war and Korea and Vietnam. "From the President of the United States, Greetings"

The text in the sixth panel reads: I missed the coming of nuclear weapons. What the hell was that?

The text in the seventh panel reads: I missed Richard Nixon.

The text in the eighth panel reads: I missed the Sexual Revolution. Bend over.

The text in the ninth panel reads: I even missed John Wayne saying this... Fill ya hand, Ya sunzabitches!

The text in the tenth panel reads: I missed the lunar expeditions. Oral sex?! You'll get oral sex when that Armstrong kid next door walks on the moon!

The text in the eleventh panel reads: And I missed the development of the automobile and the airplane and computers...

The text in the twelfth panel reads: That was one helluva century - and I missed it. Your bus just left.

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