WINFRAH OPREY

THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW
1986-2011 Syndicated

WINFRAH OPREY
Cracked #233, January 1988
w: Peter Bagge
a: Bill Wray

If you're familiar with Peter Bagge's art, you can totally see these some of the figures are his, so Bill Wray's art is taken from the layouts which you can see are influenced by Kurtzman's.

The foreground of the middle panel has caricatures of televangelists Jim and Tammy Fae Bakker. Phil Donahue started the daytime talk show format that Oprah and so many others followed suit with.

I said in the sidebar I'd refrain from discussing politics here and in case some who frequent this blog are deplorablefrom the other side of the aisle, I'll try to bite my tongue and be as objective as possible when it comes to right-wing personalities and issues. But things from 35 years ago are innocent when compared to now anyway.

MAD'S POLITICAL IMAGE MAKER OF THE YEAR
MAD #291, December 1989
w: Lou Silverstone
a: Angelo Torres

Parody of Roger Ailes a few years before he helped found Fox news, when he was just a consultant. Willie Norton was a prisoner in governor Michael Dukakis' prison furlough program who didn't return and was used against him when he ran against Bush I. Tom Foley was Speaker of the House that Republican congressmen smeared by accusing him of being gay. Edward Kennedy got in a drunken driving accident that resulted in the death of his passenger.

In the first panel is Lee Atwater, RNC strategist for the 1988 Presidential campaign.

George Will and Pat Buchanan are two of the people briefing the candidate in the first panel. At the end of the page are writers for Late Night with David Letterman. “Read my lips...” was part of a quote Bush used in his campaign speech.

The punchline is that even somebody like Roger Ailes couldn't make over Dan Quayle.