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Arthur B. Poinier (1910-98)

While still a student at Ohio Wesleyan University, Arthur B. Poinier began to draw sports cartoons for the Columbus Dispatch before signing on as an editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register Tribune. A past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), Poinier in 1951 joined the Detroit News, which in the course of his twenty-five years of service, published seventy-five hundred of his editorial cartoons. Poinier donated more than twenty-four hundred cartoons produced between 1952 and 1968 to the Special Collections Research Center.

Wonder How the History Books cartoon
Wonder How the History Books Will Picture Him?
Detroit News, 1960
Bobby Sox Idol / Visionary Liberal / Man of Action / Politician with the FDR Flair / Summit Negotiator / Hard-Headed Administrator / Statesman and World Leader
Composing note: to be used only if Kennedy wins

Straw Man cartoon
Straw Man
[1960]
Authoritarian Military Regimes in Emerging Nations / U.S. Arms Aid without Ensuring Governmental Reform

My Son...My Son cartoon
My Son...My Son
Detroit News, 1968
Newspaper Headline: Martin Luther King

Pathway to Camelot cartoon
Pathway to Camelot
Detroit News, 1968
(NOTE: To be used only in the event of Robt. Kennedy's death)