History Cartoons

"We're still analyzing the data from our door-to-door survey."

"Good news, Sir Reginald. The King has elected you his succesor to the throne."

"I practiced for the AP US History exam all day yesterday, so I'm as ready as Alexander Hamilton giving the Gettysburg address at the Alamo."

(At The Treaty Of Versailles, Britain, France, Italy And The United States Established That Germany's Colonies Be Taken From Her, That They Be Excluded From The League Of Nations, And That They Pay Reparation For World War I. -Additionally, Several Lunch And Dinner Checks Were Charged To Their Account By The "Big Four".) "I think I'll start with the escargot, and then I'll have the Coq au Vin..."

(In Jan. 1943, The Decision To Invade Italy Through Sicily Was Made At The Casablanca Conference.) "President Roosevelt, you know General de Gaulle, Prime Minister Churchill, Sam the piano player."

In August of 1939, British Codebreakers Receive A Stolen German Cipher Machine Called "Enigma". The Machine Was Used To Send Coded Information Between German U-boats And Land Based Command. - We've pretty much deciphered how this thing works. One thing - we're still having trouble setting the bloody clock. Can't seem to stop it from showing '12:00' all the time.

"Okay - Mommy's going off now to build a Boeing B-29 Superfortress. You kids behave or I'll bring my rivet gun home with me."

"And believe it or not, children, some of your ancestors could be related to this fellow right here."

(1954 - Elvis Presley invents his swivel hip dancing style as a direct result of his wardrobe person leaving the iron on his pants zipper too long) "Ho, Mama."

(George Washington: Father of the Country and first US President. Originator of the White House Cabinet; established Congress's right to tax US citizens and re-wrote existing boating regulations to increase the number of people allowable in a row boat from 5 to 12.)