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Tuesday, April 1, 2026

They Couldn’t Take a Joke!

Homer Davenport’s scathing political cartoons so angered Thomas Platt (below) that in 1897, he tried to introduce an Anti-Cartoon law in New York State!


— C. Yoe (in the funny papers)

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, April 1st, 2008 at 12:03 am.
Posted in Weird But True | 2 Comments »

2 Responses to “They Couldn’t Take a Joke!”

  1. Michael Burton Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 1:28 am

    If I looked like that, I’d want an anti-cartoon law, too!

  2. STWALLSKULL » Interesting Links: April 1st, 2008 Says:
    April 1st, 2008 at 10:06 pm

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