BIB_ID
446977
Accession number
MA 23829.31
Creator
Wasserman, Dan, artist.
Display Date
2005
Credit line
The Melvin R. Seiden Collection. Anonymous gift in memory of Melvin R. Seiden, 2021.
Description
1 drawing
Notes
Title from item.
Signed vertically along the edge of the image by the artist at lower right: Wasserman ©11-05 The Boston Globe / Dist by Tribune Media Services.
Signed vertically along the edge of the image by the artist at lower right: Wasserman ©11-05 The Boston Globe / Dist by Tribune Media Services.
216 x 280 mm
Inscriptions/Markings
Inscribed in pencil on verso at upper right: "Leo Garel / Stockbridge / Mass. 01262 / Published WS Journal / 1999"; stamped "Cartoon Features Syndicate" at lower left, with "B12490L104" in pencil below.
Summary
Cartoon shows a man in a suit standing at right, addressing a second man as he gestures towards a chalk board which reads "Medicare drug benefit:", followed by an incorerent and nonsensical fomula; in the foreground, desparate people struggle with paperwork, collapse, and gulp pills as they look at the board.
Medium
Black ink over graphite with corrections in white, on cardstock.
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