Back when we first arrived in California in 1968, we became an avid reader of the Los Angeles Free Press, a remarkable alternative weekly published by Art Kunkin.
We immediately thumbed through each issue in search of the latest offering from a cartoonist who signed himself as R. Cobb. His images were, invariably, both stark and searing, observations of the deeper truths hidden beneath the political rhetoric of the day.
What’s truly remarkable is how well they hold up today. We’ve featured his work from that era previously here and here, so today we’ll add two more images, as true today as they were in the 1960s.
Without further ado, the images:
