A Millennium Story
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)
eMuseum Notes
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.