Summary Information

Biographical Note

Arrangement note

Administrative Information

Collection Inventory

Summary Information

Repository

UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives

Title

David Cohen Editorial Cartoon Collection

ID

M2021.03

Date [inclusive]

1986-2016

Extent

8.0 Linear feet

Description note

The collection contains original cartoons by David Cohen.

Location note

Located in Special Collections, Row 3, Section 4

Language

English

Citation

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Biographical Note

David Cohen is a political cartoonist who has lived in Asheville since 1970. He has been free-lancing editorial cartoons for the Asheville Citizen-Times since 2006. His cartoons have appeared in college textbooks, on CD covers by such musicians as Carla Bley, and in such publications as The Funny Times.

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Arrangement note

The cartoons are arranged chronologically. Cartoons without dates on them have been assigned a date range based on contextual information.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives

Ramsey Library, CPO # 1500
One University Heights
Asheville, North Carolina, 28804-8504
828.251.6645
speccoll@unca.edu

Access note

The collection is available for research. Copyright is held by the donor.

Custodial History

Donated by David Cohen.

Accruals note

Additional accruals are expected. Recently received materials from David Cohen will be added here soon.

Processing Information

Processed by Elijah Reddick and Michael Dennis.

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Collection Inventory

Box 1:

• Folder 1 Cartoons from 1983-1987 (dated)
  • Cartoon 1: Person relaxing at home in chair besides bookshelf with bust of himself on the shelves along with a record player (1983)
  • Cartoon 2: two boys jumping on a bed with what appears to be underwear wrapped around their heads, caption reads, “When we were little, my brother and I put underwear on over our heads and pretended we were deep sea divers.” A larger caption at the top reads, “True Facts.” (1983)
  • Cartoon 3: A person tripping over rocks with one of the rocks saying, “Not bad”, sign behind man reads, “Fall for watching rocks”
  • Cartoon 4: Three bears standing between an entrance to a forest and an outhouse with one bear using the outhouse and the other two standing confused looking at forest. (1985)
  • Cartoon 5: A crosswalk depicting three people crawling across the street with signs saying “Don’t walk” (1985)
  • Cartoon 6: A tied up bird being taken hostage by three worms with assault weapons while one worm talks at a podium with the caption, “One more early morning, and the bird dies!!.” (1985)
  • Cartoon 7: A cruiseliner ship ran ashore with a person wearing a giant foam finger and cowboy style hat crushed under the bow. Text from people on deck saying, “I’m afraid, Sir, that the ship has hit the fan” (1985)
  • Cartoon 8: Two people depicted as one taking the other’s picture while they stand in front of a giant wooden chair with a giant wooden table nearby. Caption reads, “Redwood Furniture National Forest.” This is parodying the national forest in California which holds large Redwood trees.
  • Cartoon 9: Two men walking in opposite directions both rubbing different parts of their heads with one man missing hair on the back of his head and the other, the top. (1987)
• Folder 2 (undated)  Cartoons from 198
  • Cartoon 1: A split image on one card of a man standing on a railing from a presumably high place with an electric crosswalk sign beside him reading, “Don’t jump” in the first image and then reading, “Jump” in the second with the man gone from the scene.
  • Cartoon 2: A figure dressed like the Catholic pope defecating in the woods with the viewer only being able to see their back and big hat. Caption reads, “Pope, in woods.”
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 1988
  • Cartoon 1: The set of a mans feet with a golf club between them with miniature golf clubs scattered around the ground with the caption,”Hail-sized golf balls” 
  • Cartoon 2: Three dogs with one laying and two standing, one is referring to a off screen female dog with a derogatory term and drawing attention to what would be considered a slang term for a woman’s breast. Instead of saying the term outright, the dog substitutes the word “tics” 
  • Cartoon 3: The front of a movie theater with the caption, “Foreign Films” on the bigger display sign with a advertisement board under it reading, “All you can read $3” 
  • Cartoon 4: The rear of a car with a crucifix depicting Jesus upon it attached to the inner side of the rear window with a caption reading, “It could happen dept.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A mother, father, and daughter chatting with the mother saying, “Tell your dad about your new job, honey” and the daughter responding, “I go to the senior center everyday and explain ‘The Far Side’. “ 
  • Cartoon 6: Most of the drawing is a black mass of scribbling in the middle with one caption reading, “Cajun Humor:” and an other caption reading, “Blackened Cartoon” 
  • Cartoon 7: An armed guard at his post with a guard rail in front of him with his thoughts displayed as thinking, “What if they don’t stop?.” A caption reads, “Insecurity Guard” 
  • Cartoon 8: A woman staring at a three tiered basket containing either fruit or vegetables with a knife and cutting board in front of her. There is a miniature rope and footprints indicating the fruit has escaped. 
  • Cartoon 9: A man at a desk with a sign above him reading, “over” and a sign in front of the desk reading, “around.” Man appears to be writing or drawing. 
  • Cartoon 10: A man and a woman sitting on a couch watching TV with the man saying, “Sports fans go CRAZY nowadays when they know the camera is on them.”, the woman responds, “and this is a chess match.” The TV is echoing, .”We’re Nͦ1, we’re Nͦ1!!.”
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 1988
  • Cartoon 1: Two birds sit on a couch with another species of bird and a bee sits opposite to them on a couch. The other bird is saying, “Well, we’re happy, and we don’t care what anybody says!” in retort to other birds’ judgment. 
  • Cartoon 2: Vertically oriented drawing with a man and woman seated for dinner and the waiter holding onto a flying fish in mid-air with the waiter saying, “and the catch of the day is flying fish.”
  • Cartoon 3: A tractor trailer with legs, void of wheels, walking up an incline with a cartoon “hobo sac” draped over its shoulder. It’s thoughts are displayed as reading, “They’ll be sorry” and a road sign reading, “Runaway truck ramp”
  • Cartoon 4: A man, woman, and child staring at a framed piece of art depicted as a imprint of a nose on a piece  of cloth with the title of the piece  being, “The hanky of Turin ”. This is a parody of the famous “Shroud of Turin ”, a piece  of cloth thought to have the imprint of Jesus of Nazareth’s face from his time of burial as he was wrapped in linen. 
  • Cartoon 5: Two guards and a condemned man with a blindfold and tied hands stand as one guard offers the prisoner a last cigarette before execution. The other guard stops him and points to a sign on the wall reading, “No Smoking” 
  • Cartoon 6: Three head figures of major religions depicted on a green of a golf course with the location being Augusta ,Georgia (A significant location in golf history).  Another caption reads, “The perfect masters tournament” in reference to the annual tournament held at Augusta every year. 
  • Cartoon 7: A coffee cup, toaster, and neglected plant are depicted on top of a counter with the caption reading, “Houseplants of the male & single.” The coffee cups display, “Am I awake yet?” 
  • Cartoon 8: A construction worker standing on the side of the road with a stop sign and a larger sign beside him saying, “Prepare to meet your maker!!!.” The man mirrors the iconographic style commonly associated with the god figure in Christianity. 
  • Cartoon 9: Four chickens moving towards a group of bugs, the bugs scream, “They’re back!!!” with the caption reading, “Poultrygeist 4” 
  • Cartoon 10: Three men standing in the road with two being in exploratory fashion and one man wearing a fez and is armed pointing. There are scattered markings on the road with the caption reading, “Discovery of the secret recap graveyard 1849”
• Folder 5 (dated): Cartoons from 1988
  • Cartoon 1: A man standing by an answering machine with the machine saying, “-beep-, Hi, this is destiny calling. I’ll try again later. -beep-” 
  • Cartoon 2: Three baseball players and a coach stand on a baseball field with the coach ordering, “That’s it, fellas, no more spitting on the astroturf.” Two men are spitting and it seems that there is a pool of saliva knee deep on the field. 
  • Cartoon 3: A family of a man, woman, son, and daughter are having a cookout while the father is dressed as a chef with an apron saying, “born to cook” and at the same time waiting for a microwave to get done with their food. 
  • Cartoon 4: A man taking a picture with a polaroid camera and the picture coming out of the side of the man’s head mimicking the sound of action that the camera would typically produce. 
  • Cartoon 5: A man and woman seated at a bar watching TV with the man saying, “They say that South Korea banned the sale of dog meat during the olympics……embarrassment? The woman responds, “Spuds’ Contract” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man seated at dinner handing money to a pizza delivery person behind him with the waiter beside him asking, “and how did you enjoy your din-…?” 
  • Cartoon 7: Six large men and women stand eating and talking amongst themselves as they think and say a series of dialogue in reference to the food they are eating and paroding philosophical topics and authors. One reference being a man’s thoughts depicted as, “I eat therefore I am” in reference to Descartes, a French philosopher. 
  • Cartoon 8: A chicken holding a picket sign in protest reading, “Bones for the boneless” and walking with an angry expression on its face.” 
• Folder 6 (undated): Cartoons from 1987-1988
  • Cartoon 1: Man seated at dinner berating waiter saying, “My name is Mr. Thompson Sir, and you will be serving me.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Man and woman lying in bed undressed as woman says to man, “You’re the headache I have.” Presumably denying the disgruntled man of intercourse.
  • Cartoon 3: A miniature door man to a hotel stands beside a doggy door part of a larger door. 
  • Cartoon 4: A police officer arresting a mime saying, “You have the right to remain silent…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two people looking up at a night sky filled with stars, one is holding a remote and in another image on the same card the sky is then turned solid black with the caption reading, “Universal Remote.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two men riding in a pickup truck with the driver saying, “Hell, I still pray that people will use their turn signals. 
  • Cartoon 7: A child crying in a yard as a man runs away with his play doll known as a ‘beanie baby’, a popular brand of stuffed animal toys often collected. The kid screams, “Mommy, I’ve been beanie-jacked!!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A liquor store clerk tells a young, underage man with a portrait of an old man to “Beat it kid.” The caption reads, “The I.D of Dorian Gray.” This is in reference to the novel by Oscar Wilde about a young man who is not affected by age since his soul is captured in a painted portrait. 
  • Cartoon 9: A group of dogs digging holes in a yard with a sign in the yard saying, “Yard sale today” 
  • Cartoon 10: A man with a bone and a dog stand as the man says, “c’mon, boy, speak!”, the dog responds, “Give me the damn bone.”
• Folder 7 (undated): Cartoons from 1987-1988
  • Cartoon 1: A man dressed in regal attire using a computer with fingers crossed and a glass heel sitting on the desk. The computer reads, “www.Cinderella.com” in a search bar. 
  • Cartoon 2:  A man inquires about an item to a store clerk saying, “It’s called “The Idiot’s Guide for Dummies “.. I think…”
  • Cartoon 3: A headless person with a string of floss clutched in the fingers of raised arms with the off-scene head saying, “Whoops….” The caption reads, “Accidental Floss”
  • Cartoon 4: A rear of a car with a sign in the back window pointing outward reading, “We still don’t want your prayers led by elected or appointed officials at local, state, or federally funded institutions.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A smirking man and a woman walking away from a baby in a diaper saying, “Hey, wait a minute… Aren’t you supposed to do what I say?”
  • Cartoon 6: Two computers situated on a desk with one computer asking the other, .”com here often?” (Notice period before the word com) 
  • Cartoon 7: A bird is situated at dinner getting their order taken by another bird dressed as a waiter. The waiter is saying, “Yes sir- the squirrel was run over just this morning.” 
  • Cartoon 8: The entrance to a room is displayed with a sign reading, “All welcome, E.E meeting” . A man within the room speaks at a podium saying, “Hello, my name is Gerald, and I check my email 8 times a day.” This is parodying A.A meetings are usually held to help people with substance abuse issues. 
  • Cartoon 9: A sleeping dog running in his slumber with his thoughts displayed as “.Must…Find…Tree.” An off scene speech bubble says, “Look, Honey, he’s running in his dreams!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A road going off into the distance until it suddenly drops off into a cliff with a road sign warning of the sudden drop with an arcing arrow.
• Folder 8 (undated): Cartoons from 1987-1988
  • Cartoon 1: Three chickens near three stove top ovens with bows wrapped around the ovens, the ovens have tags on them saying, “Take me” and “For you.” The caption reads, “Free Range Chickens” 
  • Cartoon 2: A giant spiky pollen particle rests on top of a crushed car with a man exclaiming, “Man, there’s pollen all over my car!.” The caption reads, “The downside of genetic modification.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A TV underwater plugged into a bigger cable line on the ocean floor while fish watch a show titled, “The undersea world of Jacques Cousteau.” Jacques Cousteau is a French oceanographer who is a pioneer in the field.
  • Cartoon 4: A vertically oriented image of two circles with images in both. The top circle has the earth within it and reads, “Home.” The bottom circle has a person in a loincloth-like outfit holding a pencil and what appears to be an elongated object resembling a spoon or brush. The bottom circle reads, “Support.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A landscape scene with no caption or specific subject. Guardrail in foreground with field and trees in background. 
  • Cartoon 6: A tortoise appears to be trapped on a small block of land resembling a desert island with a palm tree and a small fire on it. The block of land is also in a bowl filled with water, the water acting as a moat preventing the tortoise from leaving. 
  • Cartoon 7: A close up image of human toes poking through a distressed shoe with the toes and foot looking very distressed and dirty. A fly on the shoe exclaims, “Yow!” Another caption at the top reads, “Hoboto.”
• Folder 9 (dated): Cartoons from 1989
  • Cartoon 1: A striped condom with caption “Mutual of Omaha’s wild condom” 
  • Cartoon 2: Man standing beside car with caption on windshield “Ford, in case I forget” 
  • Cartoon 3: A portrait of an exploding head with two captions, “The hills are alive” and “all of a sudden, Maria burst into song…” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two astronauts standing beside each other in the background of space with the musical caption “8 Quadrillion bottles of beer in the wall…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Large man standing holding a bag of chips, a bottle and case of bottles by his side, and a moon pie wrapper at his feet with the caption “blacks, better athletes than whites? hell, noway” 
  • Cartoon 6: Woman standing beside man sitting in chair both looking at TV with woman saying “She has lost a lot of weight.” and man saying “They’ll have to call it The Opie Winfrey Show” 
  • Cartoon 7: Man driving car and cooking breakfast in a pan with a number pad and telephone wire attached to it while eggs are in it. Caption reads “Cellular Breakfast” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two men serving themselves at a buffet bar with a sign attached saying “Auto Parts Bar.” Instead of food at bar it is automotive parts with caption reading “good ideas gone bad” 
  • Cartoon 9: Male scientist recording results of a horse hooked up to a machine with the scientist saying “okay….now relax…think about a nice rubdown….”  and caption reading “Biofeedbag” 
  • Cartoon 10: Car with different depictions of microscopic germs attacking man within the car while man screams for help with caption, “The attack of the giant cellular phone”
• Folder 10 (dated): Cartoons from 1989
  • Cartoon 1: A theater with four people seated with three captions reading from top to bottom, “Courtesy is Contagious!”, “Crying babies should be taken to the lobby”, “Turn off those damn watches!.” Image of crying baby on screen also. 
  • Cartoon 2: Man lying unconscious on ground with bump on head after walking into a bar across a doorway with the caption, “A man walks into a bar….” A larger caption reads “Old Joke #927” 
  • Cartoon 3: Three worms taking a tied up bird hostage and speaking at a podium armed with assault rifles with the caption “One more early morning and the bird dies!” 
  • Cartoon 4: Desert-like empty landscape with a sign in foreground reading “Middle of Nowhere” and sign in background reading “End of Nowhere.” Palm tree in background 
  • Cartoon 5: Board meeting of Japanese auto company new car presentation with a illustration of a car titled the “1990 Kamikaze” and larger caption reading “Not motor trend’s import car of the year” 
  • Cartoon 6: A parody of Mr. Potato head titled “Mr. Potato Chip” broken and scattered in pieces with hat, glasses, and shoes shown on the ground with larger caption reading, “Back to the drawing board:” 
  • Cartoon 7: Toaster taking two pieces of bread hostage with three forks shown surrounding it saying “50 kwh in unmetered voltage, and no forks man!.” Caption reads “Toast Hostages” 
  • Cartoon 8: News anchor shown with an arrow and attached piece of paper recently shot into right arm trying to remove it saying “This just in…” 
  • Cartoon 9: Former United States Surgeon General C. Everett Koop pictured in split images with left side displaying him giving a address reading from a piece of paper and with the right side displaying him dancing with caption, “Koop, Everett, Koop”  
  • Cartoon 10: Pee Wee Herman pictured marching to the edge of sea on a beach with him saying “.Heh-Heh.. ..Watery..” Referencing Union general William Sherman’s march to sea military campaign during the Civil War
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 1989
  • Cartoon 1: A singular dot pictured in the middle of the card with caption below, “Connect. The. Dot.” Larger caption at top reads, “Puzzles for idiots” 
  • Cartoon 2: Parody of Halloween with a child shown at a man’s door in a pinstripe suit, briefcase, and a mask asking the man “A) Trick,  B) Treat, or C) Undecided.” Referencing political voting. 
  • Cartoon 3: A family of potatoes and tater tots sitting on a couch watching TV with one potato saying “Love that spuds Mckenzie!.” Larger caption says, “The Couch Potatoes at home, with the tater tots.”
  • Cartoon 4: Vertical style drawing showing a plant’s vine wrapped around a wind chime stopping its movement with the plant saying “Shut up!!.” Larger caption reads “Plants do not respond to music…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Man falling in between a gap in between two continental plates with set dinner table still on one of the cliffs with caption reading “Continental Drift Breakfast” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two carrion species vultures boarding a plane with luggage and flies flying around them indicating a stench with caption, “Carrion Luggage” 
  • Cartoon 7: Display within store named “Welcome to everything battered!” showing a series of battered food with the cashier beaten up and injured. 
  • Cartoon 8: Cooked turkey on platter in semi-fetal position touching themselves  inappropriately turned away from viewer. Caption reads “Masturbasting” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two tribesmen pictured with one holding an empty box upside down with a disappointed expression with the other man saying “A “we don’t care” package.” Parodying the concept of relief or “care packages” to in need societies. 
  • Cartoon 10: A general and soldier depicted riding in a military jeep with bumper stickers on front displaying “You can’t win a war with a nuclear family.” A criticism of the popular social unit known as the nuclear family.
• Folder 12 (dated): Cartoons from 1989
  • Cartoon 1: Five people standing with one group of three and a separate duo who one man is saying “John knows a lot, but he can be really boring!” criticizing a man in the trio and a woman adding “Banal rententive, huh?” 
  • Cartoon 2: Woman sitting in a tanning chair on the shore of a beach relaxing with her thoughts displayed as saying “Now this is beach music.” This is in regional reference to the popularity of beach music within North Carolina during the 1950’s and 1960’s
  • Cartoon 3: Parody of Santa Claus and the concept of him receiving milk and cookies showing him receiving milk and chips with him saying “Merry Crispness” 
  • Cartoon 4: The Star Trek ship the Starship Enterprise pictured shooting “futon” cushions instead of the “photon Torpedos” shown in the show’s canon. 
  • Cartoon 5: A Romulan Man (A race of people in Star Trek’s the TV show’s cannon) driving a floating car while asking his partner over the phone, “Honey, you left the cloaking device on again. Where’s the house?” Larger caption says “Romulans at home”
  • Cartoon 6: Restaurant sign advertising “Red Eats” with smaller writing on sign saying “Straight from our can to yours.” Larger caption at top reads, “Cheap Restaurant Signs #37” 
  • Cartoon 7: A TV crashed into the ground resembling a crash site similar to a meteorite strike with the screen half showing an ad for a bottled substance. The caption reads, “Mediarite.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A desert like landscape with cactus and rock formations in the foreground and background. Multiple houseless people inhabit the landscape and are seen doing a variety of activities such as sleeping, walking, and pushing a cart. Caption reads, “houseless on the range.”
• Folder 13 (undated): Cartoons from 1989
  • Cartoon 1: Person depicted in a state of distress sweating, juggling, and being attacked by a dog while avoiding multiple holes in the ground with his thoughts displayed as “..i can do this..” Single larger caption reads, “LIFE”
  • Cartoon 2: A lone leaf sitting in a reclining chair watching TV on a tree branch with other branches barren of leaves saying .” Hey, where did everybody go?.”
  • Cartoon 3: Three young planted bonsai trees with two pictured smoking and a third peeking around a corner of a building acting as a lookout. Caption at bottom reads, “How to start a Bonsai” 
  • Cartoon 4: Man sitting at counter with sugar shaker and a glass of iced tea half full with sugar. A caption reads, “Hal put so much sugar into his iced tea, his glass looked like a dirty fish bowl.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two men dressed in suits with oversized ties posing in positions parodying that of the traditional martial arts practice Tai Chi with a caption reading “Tie Chi”
  • Cartoon 6: Two hikers look at a poster on a tree depicting the Forest Service mascot Smokey the bear’s face covered in a smog cloud with text reading, “Only you can prevent forest views.” One hiker says “Smoggy the Bear?” 
  • Cartoon 7: Santa Claus being pulled on his sled by reindeer who have been shot with arrows with him saying “Sorry!! I forgot we weren’t doing Biltmore Forest this year!!.” This is a reference to the culling of whitetail deer commonly done on Biltmore estate grounds to prevent the destruction of crops and flowers
  • Cartoon 8: Two men depicted with one sitting and the other standing surrounded by blaring speakers with one saying, “After I bought the stereo I couldn’t afford a car….” The other man exclaims “What?!”
  • Cartoon 9: Two giraffes eating from brush with one saying. “Actually, I’m trying to get more smoothage in my diet.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Elvis Presley and Lou Costello drawn side by side with caption reading, “Elvis and Costello.” A parody of the popular comedy duo Abbott and Costello. 
• Folder 14 (undated): Cartoons from 1989
  • Cartoon 1: Bumper sticker on back of car reads,  “Something Moronic” with subheading below reading, “That lowers your opinion of me.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Man (A orthodontist) with a diving mask and snorkel face to face with a piranha inspecting its teeth saying, “Everything’s looking good! I’ll see you in a month.” Caption says “Amazon Orthodontist.” The man depicted is a local Asheville, NC orthodontist by the name of Dr. Roeder
  • Cartoon 3: A newspaper ad depicting someone looking for a roommate with desired traits of a roommate but parodied from the typical idea of a good roommate such as looking for people who use illegal drugs. Caption reads, “Truth and Consequences 
  • Cartoon 4: Four people standing in line with money for tickets with a human sized box displaying the words “Box Office” on it calling customers one by one. 
  • Cartoon 5: A man (Potentially Ralph Sexton, a local minister) standing at the podium saying “Believe us, this is going to work.” with a sign displaying “National Outspoken Chrisitan Developmental League” situated behind him. 
  • Cartoon 6: Baby seen in back of a van attached vertically to a wooden board with sign in bottom left of back window reading, “Baby on a board.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Vertical drawing of elevator with three people inside, two passengers and a man playing a violin next to them with the caption, “I hate elevator music” 
  • Cartoon 8: Front of dentist office with sign in bottom right of window reading, “Wide open for business.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Dr. Frankenstein and his assistant Igor standing side by side. Igor is depicted as black and is saying “Yo.” Caption says, “Dr. Frankenstein and his faithful assistant, the name used for igor is a mixing of the derogatory term for a black or brown person and the name Igor. 
  • Cartoon 10: Two robots depicted as a couple sitting up in bed with mixed emotions on each of their face looking off into the distance, no caption
• Folder 15 (undated): Cartoons from 1989
  • Cartoon 1: Depiction of a earthquake diorama in a box for sale with the caption reading, “Retail Destruction” 
  • Cartoon 2: Bumper sticker on back of car with text displaying “Don’t pray and drive.” Additional caption at bottom reads, “I declare this horse officially flogged.” in reference to the multiplicity of appearance this joke makes in other cartoons
  • Cartoon 3: Sticker on a car’s rear window reading, “www.Istilldon’tcare.com” as person drives

Box 2:

• Folder 1 (dated): Cartoons from 1990
  • Cartoon 1: A submarine traveling underwater with the quote, “I dive, therefore I am” above it. This is in reference to the French philosopher Voltaire. A caption reads, “Subconscious” 
  • Cartoon 2: Three men standing with one of the men being much larger and skeletal in figure than the other two, one man says, “Harold’s not fat. He’s just big-boned.” 
  • Cartoon 3:Four people stand in a line, all reaching into one another’s back where there is compartment for storage and putting items in with the caption reading, “Backpacking” 
  • Cartoon 4: A fashion designer and his assistant look at a model with a sweater on, the sweater has an elongated neck and collar. The model is saying, “The giraffe-neck sweater!!” and the caption reads, “Back to the drawing board dept.” 
  • Cartoon 5: The torso of a nude woman with one breast appearing normal in appearance but the other breast appears in the fashion of a Rubik’s cube with squares and multiple shaded areas. The caption reads, “Rubik’s Boob” 
  • Cartoon 6: A vertical oriented drawing of a spotted dog with an art pallet, paintbrush, paint tube, and bandaged ear. The caption reads, “Van Gogh’s dog, Bin Gogh” 
  • Cartoon 7: A vertical oriented drawing of a can depicting a cat and dog, advertising as flea and tick medication. The can also reads, “No animal testing” with the larger caption reading, “This makes sense dept.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Three Isrealite men stand in front of a large brick wall who are exclaiming, “Hee Hee Hee” and “Oy! Stop, you’re killing me!.” The caption reads, “At the chuckling wall.” This is in reference to the western wall or as it’s commonly known as the wailing wall in the city of Jerusalem as a place of worship for followers of the Jewish faith.
  • Cartoon 9: A man watching a TV, leaning severely towards it while the TV is on a TV also leaning extremely towards the man, mirroring his posture. 
  • Cartoon 10: A man with a fanny pack wrapped around his head and covering his eyes with him saying, “I don’t know Johnson…is there another part of the body we can hang this on?.” A larger caption reading, “Back to the drawing board…” 
• Folder 2 (dated): Cartoons from 1990
  • Cartoon 1: Four Gregorian monks playing a gambling match with dice with one of the monks saying, “C’mon baby…father needs a new pair of sandals.” The larger caption reads, “Gregorian Chance”
  • Cartoon 2: Four kangaroos laugh and point at disgruntled man with fanny pack on while man stares back. 
  • Cartoon 3: Vertical oriented drawing of a giant cashew taking the place of the Statue of Liberty on Liberty island. The captions reads, “Cashew of Liberty”
  • Cartoon 4: Two people in a car stopping before a speed bump being robbed by a man in pirate attire and a sword saying, “Your credit cards or your life!.” The people in the car are saying, “The speed-bump bandit!” 
  • Cartoon 5: Cinderella’s head being accidentally turned into a cinder block by her fairy godmother who exclaims, “Oops…sorry, Cinderella” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man playing with a hula hoop, an eight track player and tape, and a sphere of the earth with hearts around it depicted side by side with the caption reading, “Keogh’s Law: What becomes fashionable can easily become unfashionable….” A smaller caption at the bottom reads, “Oh that was on last week, right?”
  • Cartoon 7: A elderly couple takes a picture of a sign and doorway that is advertising free historic t-shirts with a man in a cage behind the door. A larger caption reads, “Tourist Trap.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A recently run over squirrel with goggles by a car with a moose driving it, car is seen driving away. This is a reference to the animated series Rocky and Bullwinkle. 
  • Cartoon 9: A man raising up his shirt to reveal his midsection which has a vertical industrial vent coming out of his left side with caption reading, “Carl takes a moment to vent his spleen.” 
  • Cartoon 10: The bottom of a bomber style aircraft with bomb doors open to reveal falling bonsai trees coming out of the bomb bay. Large caption reads, “Bonsai!”
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 1990
  • Cartoon 1: Condemned man to be shot stands against wall while firing line of men aim and shoot at him and commander stands to the side with sword. Commander is saying, “And for leaving your reusable shopping bags at home AGAIN…”
  • Cartoon 2: Two people with cast on wrist/hand sit in dove shaped boat that is floating into a archway and tunnel with the words, “Carpal tunnel of love”
  • Cartoon 3: A cat, snake, dog, and flying airplane all shown on the card in a blank landscape with the animals looking at the viewer. Caption reads, “Details were sketchy…”
  • Cartoon 4: A man staring at a car with a bike, surfboard or kayak, and a pointing dog on top of the roof. Man looks confused.
  • Cartoon 5: A man thinking to himself as he stares at a movie theater sign with his thoughts saying, “A violation of the penal code?.” The sign reads, “Twin Theatres” and “My left foot Ernest goes to jail.” One reference could be the Twin Theatres in Asheville, NC as the setting for the cartoon. 
  • Cartoon 6: Man appearing to trip over some rocks while rocks talk and make fun of him saying, “Not bad”, “6.7”, and “Make him do it again!.” Sign behind man reads, “Fall for watching rocks” 
  • Cartoon 7: Person walking away from a smashed and broken box office outside of a movie theater with a sledgehammer dragging behind them. Caption reads, “Box office smash” 
  • Cartoon 8: Three types of cheese side by side including sharp, mild, and swiss all stating varying degrees of opinions with sharp saying, “Damn Strait!”, Mild saying, “Well, maybe.” and finally swiss saying, “I’m Neutral.” Caption reads, “Cheese Opinions” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two agitated college basketball players looking at a crowd of presumably basketball fans and cameraman acting crazily and chaotically. One of the players is saying, “And people are worried about the kind of education we’re getting? 
  • Cartoon 10: 
• Folder 4 (undated): Cartoons from 1990
  • Cartoon 1: Person seated at a desk with two dropboxes for files or papers at either side of him with one reading “Before Coffee”, which is empty and the other reading, “After Coffee”, which is very full. 
  • Cartoon 2: A bumper sticker on the back of a vehicle reading, “My country, Right and Wrong.” Larger caption reading, “Post-Modern Patriotism”  
  • Cartoon 3: Depicts the entrance of a large building with roman like columns and stairs with the words, “Pvblic Library”, “Jvst Say Know”
  • Cartoon 4: A person wearing a traditional Native American headpiece with feathers and a pinstripe suit with tie riding a galloping horse with a Mercedes Benz hood ornament on its nose. Person is also talking on a mobile phone and staring at watch with caption reading, “Life on the fast path” 
  • Cartoon 5: A vertically oriented drawing of a person in ice climbing gear with an ice ax stepping into an open refrigerator with the top section being completely frozen with holes poked into the ice wall. A rope is coming out of one of the holes.  
  • Cartoon 6: A farmer standing next to a pig with a set of headphones on and the wire connecting from the headphones to presumputally the pig’s anus. Caption reads, “Ham Radio”  
  • Cartoon 7: Man seated at desk with computer and  a IV (intravenous) going into his left arm while a woman pours what appears to be coffee into the IV container. Caption reads, “Cream and Sugar?” 
  • Cartoon 8: A running law enforcement officer sweating and holding a gun pointed in the air. He is screaming, “Stop or I’ll die!!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A lightly sketched image of a child riding a tricycle from a rear perspective with a plate on the back reading, “Let me tell you about my grandparents” 
  • Cartoon 10: A lightly sketched image of the rear of a car with a person driving with their hand out the window. Bumper sticker on the trunk reads, “I don’t have a kid and it’s TERRIFIC!”
• Folder 5 (undated): Cartoons from 1990
  • Cartoon 1: Two children standing together while one says, “That’s my uncle, on my mom’s side.” A woman walks into a doorway with a man dangling, attached to her side waving to the kids. 
  • Cartoon 2: A mother and child going through a store checkout line as the child asks the cashier checking out their items, “Do you give a junior discount?” 
  • Cartoon 3: The entrance to a building with a person sitting in a chair on the veranda of the building, a sign on the building reads, “Sloane Memorial Home, For people whose faces stayed that way” 
  • Cartoon 4: An outline of what appears to be a soldier in combat uniform with an anatomical, skeletal drawing within the outline. Soldier is in marching motion. 
  • Cartoon 5: Two images on one card with one on left being of a man and a woman looking up at a lush tree with the man saying, “Naw, this is only an “average” color season. Image on the right is of same scene but now the couple is covered in pile of leaves with the tree’s thoughts displayed as, “Average this, camera boy” 
  • Cartoon 6: An archipelago depicting the tips of the Blue Ridge Mountains sticking up from an ocean with a bear on one of the islands and a boat sailing towards one island. Two people at the bottom of the card are saying, “The chamber doesn’t miss a trick, does it?.” Caption reads, “Have we had enough rain yet?” 
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 1991
  • Cartoon 1: Two human spines of differing sizes beside each other with the larger spine telling the smaller one, “I’ll get you Nintendo if you clean up your room.” Larger caption reads, “Spinal Manipulation” 
  • Cartoon 2: Jawless person sitting on sofa next to table with a human jaw sitting on it with two off-scene texts saying, “TMJ?” and “Definitely” 
  • Cartoon 3: A barley opened the door with the words, “Men’s Movement Group” written on it while two texts come from the room within; one is saying, “Oh yeah!?! I’m weaker than you!!!” and the other, “Listen, man, I cried for twenty more minutes than you did yesterday!.” Larger caption reads, “Old habits die hard”
  • Cartoon 4: Vertically oriented image of a grocery store and empty checkout line with a large sign above the line reading, “Express lane, “Get it out, baby!” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two men standing beside a car with deflated tires with one man (Car salesmen)  in a suit saying, “No, Sir, this model doesn’t come with air. 
  • Cartoon 6: Vertically oriented image of large singer dressed in tiger striped leotard with mic in hand and black leather boots singing. Caption reads, “Expandex” 
  • Cartoon 7: King Solomon looking at restaurant menu with his thoughts depicted as reading, “Baby peas or baby carrots?.” Larger caption reads, King Solomon decides on a vegetable. Presumably in reference to the biblical story where King Solomon has to decide which wife gave birth to a child
  • Cartoon 8: A man in between rows of chairs looking down at the floor to an off scene person who is saying, “I’ve fallen and not only can’t I get up, I’m stuck to the floor.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A agitated locksmith standing outside his locked van rummaging through his pockets with his thoughts displayed as, “Where are my *Presumptive Curse* keys!?!
  • Cartoon 10: A dog leaning over his food bowl which is illustrated as stinking as an off screen paragraph says, “C’mon, boy, it’s new age dog food. Never been tested on animals. The dog’s thoughts are displayed as reading, “Obviously.”
• Folder 7 (dated): Cartoons from 1991
  • Cartoon 1: The grand opening of a Mexican restaurant located in Maine with a large sign reading, “El L.Bean” out in front of the landscape. This is in reference to the popular retail brand L.L Bean which was founded in Maine
  • Cartoon 2: Vertical image of a man standing and shouting at cashier in checkout line with large sign above them reading, “Express Lane, 10 Gripes or Less” 
  • Cartoon 3: A ventriloquist on a stage in front of a crowd with a puppet with a large sign above them reading, “5th Annual Hearing-Impaired Convention.” Ventriloquist is thinking, “I gotta get a new agent…” and the puppet is thinking, “Man, they’re even watching my lips!” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two demons driving in a car over a bridge with roaring flames on either side of the road saying, “Yeah, Right!.” Sign beside bridge reads, “Bridge ices before road” 
  • Cartoon 5: A rockstar speaks from a podium holding an award raised in one hand as he is saying, “and finally, I’d like to thank Satan, the Lord of Darkness, who made all of this possible.” . A presumably reference to the popular rockstar at the time Ozzy Ozbourne who is commonly referred to as the Prince of Darkness by fans. 
  • Cartoon 6: Moses descends from a hill or mountain with pages of tabloids in hand parodying the biblical story of the ten commandments or tablets. Caption reads, “Moses, descending with the tabloids” 
  • Cartoon 7: A clown throwing a pie at a man with an airbag coming out from it about to make an impact. The clown appears surprised and is displayed as thinking, “..Airbag?..” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man on an exercise rower glaring at a viking on a similar piece  of equipment wearing full viking attire with weapons. 
  • Cartoon 9: Three people dressed in business/work attire standing in the street with one using a box as a desk for their computer and appearing annoyed. Caption reads, “The Officeless” 
  • Cartoon 10:A female switchboard operator on a giant tree branch operating a switchboard made out of wood while saying, “Tarzan, vine one; Tarzan, vine one…Cheetah, vine two…”
• Folder 8 (dated): Cartoons from 1991
  • Cartoon 1: A man standing outside of a person’s door with a variety of animals including a parrot, cat, and dog while another person says, “Potluck, Roger, Potluck.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A teacher pointing towards a formula, “E=MC squared” on a chalkboard while saying, “No, MC squared is not a rap musician.” Presumably referencing the popular musician MC Hammer. 
  • Cartoon 3: A child, woman and man stand outside for a line of two doors with one reading, “Inpatient”, and the other, “Outpatient.” There is a sign nearest to them reading, “Be patient”
• Folder 9 (undated): Cartoons from 1991
  • Cartoon 1: A person in an animal carrier scowling at a can acting as a human lying on a couch reading while a cat in the background does dishes in a kitchen. The lying cat is thinking, “I’m getting rid of that damn animal” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two children watching a cannonball with arms and legs jump into a pool off a diving board doing a cannonball dive (fetal position). One child is saying, “Scotty does the best cannonballs!” 
  • Cartoon 3: A figure made up of buildings and skyscrapers made up in the shape of a human lying on a couch with its limbs hanging off. The caption reads, “Urban Sprawl” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two women walk away from a man whose pants are hanging down very low exposing some of his behind and stomach. One woman is saying to the other, “Is that why they call them “slacks?” 
  • Cartoon 5: A irate cow on its hindlegs yelling at a fast food worker in a restaurant saying, “You’re damn right  I’m mad!!.” This is in reference to the disease known as Mad Cow disease found in beef products. 
  • Cartoon 6: A packed car full of personal belongings driving away from a house and down the road quickly. The caption reads, “Most accidents occur within 25 miles of home, Howard moved” 
  • Cartoon 7: A scientist walking into a restroom staring at a toilet with a sunflower growing out of it, the door of the bathroom reads, “Hydroponics Lab restroom.” A hydroponic lab is a facility where the growing of plants without soil takes place and instead relies on mineral rich environments for nutrients. 
  • Cartoon 8: Two people walking down a snowy trail in a forest with one saying, “It’s not fear of failure; it’s not fear of success; it’s just fear. The other person is saying, “.scary.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A group of people playing the clarinet in a circle by a fire with one man inviting another to join the group saying, “Dude, come join our totally awesome clarinet circle.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A black mass of marker scribbling takes up the majority of the card with a large caption in the top left reading, “Death” and a pair of eyes displayed as thinking, “.I can do this.” 
• Folder 10 (undated): Cartoons from 1991
  • Cartoon 1: Man talking to an answering machine saying, “So what’s the answer?!” with the machine on a table replying, “Sorry, I’m not at home to take your call…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man and woman sit at a bar while the man with drink in hand says to the woman, “well..hello there..! Woman looks suspicious and the caption reads, “Male pattern boldness” 
  • Cartoon 3: The outside of a fast food restaurant riddled with bullet holes and showing shattered glass of the drive through window with a large sign reading, “Gang Burgers.” Smaller sign by drive through reads, “Drive by” 
  • Cartoon 4: Fragile looking outside stand with large sign above it offering “Psychiatric help 5¢” with a lower sign in front reading, “The doctor is out” 
  • Cartoon 5: A rear perspective of a car with a demon/satan driving into the distance with a bumper sticker saying, “HL.” This is a reference to many bumper stickers using abbreviations to describe city names, such as AVL for Asheville, NC
  • Cartoon 6: two snowmen facing away from each other with both of them talking on the phone looking into the distance as they do. One has a broom and top hat while the other has a beanie on.
  • Cartoon 7: A smiling man depicted as smelling foul and possibly houselesswith clothes scattered around the ground of a scenic landscape with plants, birds, and butterflies nearby. Caption at top reads, “The sweet smells of spring” 
  • Cartoon 8: A person being pulled over by a police officer while seated in car on phone with a device attached to the car that holds a sign saying, “Park Here.” Man is saying to the officer, “No,officer, I wasn’t using my phone and driving. I’ve been parked for the last twenty minutes.” Larger caption reads, “Product you’ll be seeing soon…”
  • Cartoon 9: A casket depicted in a funeral setting at an altar with flowers and candles surrounded with a wreath reading, “Condolences.” Text coming from the casket reads, “Guess where I’m calling from”
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 1992
  • Cartoon 1: Three athletes depicted running in a race with the leader holding his head as it appears on fire with the caption, “The itching, burning sensation of athlete’s head” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two men and a woman are depicted trying on shoes with one man on all fours with shoes on hands and feet crawling around. Caption reads, “As a result of his witnessing for the “Back to all fours” movement Horace’s sales doubled.”
  • Cartoon 3: Vertically oriented image of a man telling a cashier, “I don’t need a bag. Save a tree!” as he hands a book to them. Cashier thoughts depicted as reading, “Give me the book back, fool.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A car suspended on cinder blocks with no tires while the trunk and hood are ajar. There is an exercise bike with one wheel on top of the car as well. 
  • Cartoon 5: Vertically oriented image of a man urinating on the side of a building while the viewer can only see his back. Writing on window reads, “Void Where Prohibited” 
  • Cartoon 6: A sphere recognizable as earth suspended in space while giant worms burrow in and out the sphere through its core. Caption reads, “Global Worming” 
  • Cartoon 7: Vertically oriented image of a grocery store clerk who appears to be a tree in an apron asking a customer, “Paper or Plastic?” 
  • Cartoon 8: Six men in groups of three arguing, armed with weapons, and dressed in farming alluding attire with one man saying, ”These are our 40 acres, buddy boy!.” Caption at top reads, “Midwest Side Story”, referencing the 1957 broadway musical and later film, West Side Story. 
  • Cartoon 9: A frail, disturbed, shaved cat with collar staring at viewer with thoughts displayed as, “.I’ll say..” Caption reads, “Janet misunderstood Sam when he asked her to shave her (slang word for a vagina which is also used to refer to cats). 
  • Cartoon 10: A person depicted as looking up at a wall of shelving holding rows of donuts with a caption reading, “Glazed and Confused.” 
• Folder 12 (undated): Cartoons from 1992
  • Cartoon 1: Person laying on ground in prone position presumably dead with giant lettering spelling out the word “Kindness” stuck in his back. 
  • Cartoon 2: A series of identical trucks getting exponentially larger with coinciding names such as “Explorer”, “Expedition”, “Excursion”, and finally “Extinction” which is gigantic compared to other models. Below the word “Extinction” is the text, “Walnut-Sized Brain” with larger caption reading, “Evolution” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two cats standing beside each other, each with a series of piercings in the ear and rough coats of fur, one cat is saying to the other, “Duude, niiice tick.” Caption read, “Punk Cats” 
  • Cartoon 4: Elderly man driving a car with a worried expression on his face with the word, “Fear” written across the car’s windshield at the top. 
  • Cartoon 5: One person greeting another in a doorway as the other person stands with fire erupting from each arm and the person in the doorway saying, “sorry, no firearms” 
  • Cartoon 6: A witch in an apron with a chisel taking the perspective with her thumb as an artist would, of a carved stone pumpkin sitting on a pedestal. 
  • Cartoon 7: A doorway with a sign beside it reading, “Socks without partners 7:30pm.” The room within has two non-matching socks lying on two folding chairs.
  • Cartoon 8: Two young people stare at a stack of books with one pointing a remote towards the stack and one saying, “That doesn’t work- I already tried.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two men in cowboy attire addressing a third who is lassoing a grub worm from the ground with one man saying, “Cookie, “rustle up some grub” is just a figure of speech.” The other man replies, “Oh.”
  • Cartoon 10: A monk-like figure sits on top of a hill in yogic pose with hands pressed together saying, “There is no exact change.” 
• Folder 13 (undated): Cartoons From 1992
  • Cartoon 1: Jesus driving away in the distance in a car with twelve opossums crushed in the road behind the car and scattered on the road, Jesus is singing, “What a friend we have…” Caption reads, “Jesus and the 12 Opossums.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man asking a Walmart employee, “Excuse me, do you work here?” The employee is ridden with signs that clearly indicate he works at Walmart and looks annoyed. 
  • Cartoon 3: A man and woman sitting on a sofa while a man confusedly points a cell phone at the TV while a woman says, “That’s, like, a cell phone okay?!”
  • Cartoon 4: A cityscape on fire while a line of tanks, vans, and people carry a giant bug zapper and mothballs. Caption reads, “Tokyo prepares for Mothra’s final assault.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Man and woman walking while man holds TV remote up to ear and says, “Strange. I’m not getting anything.” The woman responds with, “That’s the T.V remote.”
  • Cartoon 6: People depicted as waiting on a signal to cross the street that say, “Don’t Walk” on either side of the road but, the signs are huge. Caption reads, “Large print crosswalk signs for aging boomers.”

Box 3:

• Folder 1 (dated): Cartoons from 1993
  • Cartoon 1: Two men talking with one in a suit with multiple sections connected by zippers saying, “Mine’s an eight-piece.” Referring to suit styles
  • Cartoon 2: A spider web with a spider with a computer and keyboard for a head sitting on top of it. Screen of the computer is checkered and not drawn, appearing to be some sort of artificial inlay. 
  • Cartoon 3: Three people staring at an artist who is painting on a lifted wooden platform on a sidewalk with one man saying, “Must be one of those artist’s lofts.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A woman dressed in stereotypical 70’s free love movement attire with thoughts displayed as reading, “Damn, how am I going to heal this?” as she stares at a giant crystal who has crushed a person underneath it. 
  • Cartoon 5: A condemned man stares at an electric chair with a wooden back massager on it as a priest appears to snicker behind his back holding a bible. Sticky note on back of card reads, “Classic” in cursive. 
  • Cartoon 6: Family stands at a fork in the road at a rest area, one area says, “Trucks and RV’s” and the other the family is facing towards and waving to because their car parked there says, “Cars only.” 
  • Cartoon 7: The biblical figure Noah pushing a shopping cart filled with groceries and reading a list, caption says, “Noah’s Cart.”
  • Cartoon 8: A person sitting on a park bench with a bag of nuts beside a squirrel on its hind legs saying, “Yeah, man, I hate begging. I’d rather be out running under cars…just give me the damn nut.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Interior of a restaurant with waiters  hosting a birthday surprise for a woman who is screaming, “NOOOOO” as other patrons stare at her. Caption reads, “Right wing birthday squads” 
  • Cartoon 10: Three separate scenes of a gay couple, a heterosexual couple, and a lone male with the corresponding sexual orientation term under them, except the lone male is labled as, “Bi (himself).”
• Folder 2 (dated): Cartoons from 1993
  • Cartoon 1: A grocery store line with a series of artistic representatives such as a guitarist, dancer, and painter with a sign above the line reading, “Express Lane.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Vertically oriented image of a woman with a large crystal necklace screaming, “Goddessdammit!” Caption reads, “New age curses: no. 64.
  • Cartoon 3: A man standing with a broom and sneakily dumping a dustpan filled with dirt into a clear box that reads, “ 47 grain cereal $2.65 lb.” 
• Folder 3 (undated): Cartoons from 1993
  • Cartoon 1: A traditional Chrisitian angel with a harp angrily walking with what appears to be a pine tree coming out of his rear side. 
  • Cartoon 2: A confused xylophone player who has no mallets to play their instrument looks around with hands raised. Caption reads, “Absence of mallets.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A elderly man leans down to a dog with a human arm clutched in its jaws, the man is saying, “Lassie, did something happen to Timmy?” This is a reference to the popular 1954 American TV show Lassie.
  • Cartoon 4: A figure resembling the popular Disney character Pinocchio leaning up against a wall with a dull expression on its face and a sign that reads, “ Help me become real”, appearing to be begging. 
  • Cartoon 5: Two explorers looking up to a giant stone head with a traditional Jewish yamaka on top of it while they stand in a field of similar heads. The caption reads, “The mystery of Passover Island.” This is a reference to the famous stone heads of Easter Island in the Southern Pacific ocean
  • Cartoon 6: A landscape showing Niagara Falls being filled up and the water almost reaching the cliff sides surface with caption reading, “Niagara Fills.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A smirking, sweating man leaning against a wall staring at a giant pencil sharpener saying, “mmm,baby!” The man is nude and a pencil is replacing his phallic member.
  • Cartoon 8: A bearded monk like figure seated at a desk with a computer with the caption reading, “.Calm” 
  • Cartoon 9: Vertically oriented image of a waiter next to a seated woman with women saying, “Hello, my name is Nina, and you will be serving me tonight.” 
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 1994
  • Cartoon 1: A person with a bike staring at a street at an extreme upward angle with people walking on it normally, in the background is a building with “BB&Q” titled on it. This is perhaps a reference to a local building and street in Asheville, NC, with the real building being the BB&T building and a reference to the steep nature of some Asheville streets. 
  • Cartoon 2: A police officer looking at a presumably unconscious person on the ground which is actually the viewer’s POV thinking to himself, “This guy’s not gonna remember anything.” The person he is talking to mutters, “..You’re s’posed to be (hic) Ringo,right? The caption reads, Bele Chere memories, a reference to a past annual musical and art festival held in Asheville, NC which officially stopped being held in 2013.
  • Cartoon 3: Cardstock with split images with one being a family and a dog labeled as, “the average Buncombe County family” and the other image showing the family gathered around a dog house with the caption and arrow above the house reading, “The house that the average Buncombe County family can afford…” A presumably reference to the public’s displeasure with the increase of housing prices in past and present years. 
  • Cartoon 4:  A swing set with two young children standing beside it staring into a dark blue mass with big insidious eyes looking back at them located in the mass. Caption reads, “It’s okay, honey. The girls are at the park.” 
• Folder 5 (undated): Cartoons from 1994
  • Cartoon 1: A glass phone booth located in Asheville, NC stuffed with multiple people and additional people around the phone booth looking on with one saying, “Bele Chere.” This is in reference to a former annual music and art festival that took place in Asheville, NC
  • Cartoon 2: Two people standing beside each other staring at each other with one raising their eyebrows in a suspicious manner and the other is depicted as either African American or with some dark substance spread across their face, neck and arms. The suspicious person is saying, “Roughly translated, Bele Chere means “Every-year locust.” 
  • Cartoon 3: The entrance to what appears to be a depiction of the Harrah’s Cherokee Center building in Asheville, NC with an advertisement sign showing events such as, “2 Rotary 5 Wrestling” and “Daughters of Elvis.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man depicted with a virtual reality headset hooked into a sort of video system that is labeled, “Virtual Bele Chere.” The man is saying, “It ain’t hot, It ain’t crowded, and I can drink as much beer as I damn well please!”. Caption reads, “Bele Chere for the new millennium.” In reference to the former annual festival in Asheville, NC
  • Cartoon 5: A man and women sitting opposite of each other with the woman appearing to be a host or reporter and the man saying, “Yes, on August 28th you will be able to come to city-council plaza and turn in your “River”, “Rainbow”, or “Lightstar.” He also mentions a “tattoo removal day.” Signs next to the pair read, “Ridiculous Pseudonym Amnesty Day” and “Good Morning Asheville.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A depiction of the popular disney character, Bambi holding a sign reading, “We’re still prey.” They are standing in front of a car that has, “City of Biltmore Forest NC.” Perhaps a reference to the culling of deer still active on the estate in Asheville, NC.
  • Cartoon 7: Three separate images on the same card with one depicting a old bearded man with a rake titled, “Reiki”, one with a man in a uncomfortable yoga position titled, “Kripalu”, and one with a woman smoking and drinking titled, “Healing with crystal.” A reference to the changing demographic or societal make-up of Asheville, NC. Caption reads, “New age glossary Asheville Edition.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two men making a snarky comment reading, “..karmabaggers”, while staring at a group of people in stereotypical 70’s clothing and with one wearing a pentagram. This is a reference to the term “carpetbagger” and perhaps used in this context expresses a public distaste for this new demographic moving into the area.
  • Cartoon 9: A person sitting in a car looking up at a roadside billboard reading, “Tasteful! The beauty of outdoor advertising!” The person is saying, “Remind me again why we think we’re the highest life-forms.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A triple wide trailer styled in the fashion of the Biltmore Estate belonging to George Vanderbuilt with a depiction of Mr. Vanderbilt standing to the side saying, “Triple-Wide!” Caption reads, “George Vanderbilt’s first house.” 
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 1995
  • Cartoon 1: A man and a woman talking at a dining table while reading the newspaper and drinking coffee with the man saying, “Who are these people that send in these letters?!!” and the woman replying, “The religious write.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A vertically oriented drawing of a desktop computer placed at a wooden desk in a big chair with a portrait of an old mechanical calculator above the chair with the caption, “Dad” on the frame. 
  • Cartoon 3: A bumper sticker on the back of a car rear end reading, “My life philosophy cannot be reduced to a bumper sticker slogan.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A hungover man depicted as unwell with a party hat on his head and captions reading, “One of the best things about first night…” and “No first morning!” This is in reference to a former event held in Asheville, NC called First Night which is a New Year’s Eve party.
  • Cartoon 5: A family depicted on the street with a woman saying, “Sorry, Garbo, that’s Urban trail…” in a correcting manner and a child saying, “Geez dad.” The dad is wearing a turban and is obviously caught by surprise by his mistake.
• Folder 7 (undated): Cartoons from 1995
  • Cartoon 1: The interior of a bathroom with a thought bubble coming from one of the closed stalls reading, “Man, that was fast food…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A suitcase opened with a name tag reading, “Bobby Sax” and multiple dollar bills, quarters, and  pieces of paper in the suitcase pleading the presumably musician owner to “Don’t play under my window at 11pm!!” and to “Learn some new material please.” This is a reference to a prominent musical street saxophonist in Asheville, NC. 
  • Cartoon 3: A linear sequence of three images showing a caveman evolving the process in which he creates instruments with the first being two sticks and a log, the second a simple hand drum, and the third being a futuristic drum set. 
  • Cartoon 4: A person depicted falling with hands sprawling out uttering, “whoa” and the caption reading, “George was caught off guard when his sinus congestion suddenly switched naval cavities.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A roughly sketched pencil drawing of a person lying unconscious in front of their TV set with a giant fist coming out of the screen, recently just having punched the person.
• Folder 8 (dated): Cartoons from 1996
  • Cartoon 1: A woman standing on the side of the road with a sign reading, “Hippie Wash 3-7” with a group of people in the background washing a dirty, long haired man in the background. 
  • Cartoon 2: A distraught child looking into an oven through a large window with a cooking turkey appearing to pleasure itself in the pan. An off scene text line says, “No, honey, it’s called self-basting, not masturbating.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A man and a woman stand beside a houselessman thinking of food with a sign set by the houselessman reading, “Will reverse polarity for food.” The other man is saying, “Hey man, you got forty dollars so I can get a massage?” and the woman saying, “Goddessdammit, what did I step in?” The larger caption reads, “New Age, old problems…” 
  • Cartoon 4: A male action figure dawned in comic book-like superhero garb sleeping on a reclining chair with the box he is in, “Captain Nap”, “Inaction Figure”, and “He snores! He drools! He forgets the trash!” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man sitting in a chair with a TV remote and a woman standing behind him annoyed. The man is saying, “Because I’m remote, and I need to be in control…” 
  • Cartoon 6: A elderly, short man driving a car with his eyes barely above the wheel with another car behind him depicting a very annoyed driver. The caption reads, “Coming soon …enough… confused Max as the road worrier.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A person looking down at someone who has recently fallen off a bike and is knocked out saying, “Yeah, I hear that once you fall off, you never forget how.” A dedication note located in the bottom right corner under David’s signature and date to Nathan, Donna, and Rusty.
  • Cartoon 8: A person depicted being in a confessionary stall seen in Christian Catholic denominations and churches on a landline phone staring into the box stall interior window. The automated instructions coming from the phone are saying, “If you are confessing a cardinal sin, please press 1 now. If you are confessing an ordinal sin, please press 2 now. If you wish to speak to a confession service rep, please stay on the line…” 
  • Cartoon 9: The back of a car with a sticker on the bumper saying, “I’d rather be fishing.” A fishing pole is attached to the roof of the car and the line is pulling on a commonly seen Christian fish symbol (Ichthys Symbol) ripping it off of the back of the car.
  • Cartoon 10: A biblical figure walking out from a bed and breakfast named the “Bethlehem Bed & Breakfast” with the man saying, “No bed here, either, but we can get a free continental breakfast.” A disappointed female biblical figure sits on a donkey beside the man. 
• Folder 9 (dated): Cartoons from 1996
  • Cartoon 1: A family with two children playing on the floor of a living room and a man sleeping in a reclining chair in front of a TV snoring. One child is saying, “Mommy says that daddy is her inaction figure.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A building with person sized silhouettes cut into the side with garage doors acting as the entrance to each silhouette shaped doorway. A sign in front of the building reads, “Stor-all” and “self-storage” 
  • Cartoon 3: The back of a car with a bumper sticker reading, “I don’t have a kid and it’s terrific!” The license plate also reads, “ESY-719” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man and a woman dancing with the man depicted as stenching of cologne and the woman spinning confusingly at a rapid pace, a referee is blowing a whistle and pointing at the couple saying, “Unnecessary twirling, and illegal use of cologne!” Caption reads, “If contra dances had referees…” This is perhaps a reference to a local niche of Asheville, NC and to the reasonably sized contra dance scene. 
  • Cartoon 5: A woman in a robe and drying off from a shower walks by three doors labeled “Men”, “Women”, and “Women dancing the man’s part.” This is in reference to the contra dancing scene in Asheville, NC.
  • Cartoon 6: A smiling woman sits at a table holding money next to a lockbox with signs on the table saying, “Contra Dance Tonight! $5”, “Baked goods and drinks”, and “Ace Bandages+Ice Packs.” This is in reference to the contra dancing scene in Asheville, NC.
  • Cartoon 7: Three people stand beside each other with name tags reading left to right, “My mom’s name is Starchild”, “My mother’s name is Sea Fyre”, and “My dad’s name is Warrior.” The caption reads, “Adult children of parents with ridiculous names.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A cap naps on a person’s knee dreaming of a sequence of items put into a mathematical formula format. The formula is “fish food+bird+mouse…”
  • Cartoon 9: A rear perspective of two cars driving beside each other with both having Ichthys symbols on the back of the vehicles but, one being normal sized with a closed mouth and the other with a large body and mouth displaying a desire to eat the smaller symbol.
• Folder 10 (dated): Cartoons from 1996
  • Cartoon 1: The exterior of a furniture shop called, “Whatley’s Chair Works LTD.” Signs in a window read, “Help Wanted” and “Bring Stool Sample.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A waiter saying, “Here we go, honey, one ethical dining special.” to two people sitting at a restaurant table with a woman responding with, “Blackened biscuits?” and a man replying, “Just like mama used to burn.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A group of people driving bumper cars with a range of expressions on their face and a bumper sticker on one of the carts reading, “Stop the Violence.” 
  • Cartoon 4: The exterior of a shop called, “Clark’s Chair Factory” with signs in a large window reading, “Help Wanted” and “Bring Stool Sample.” See cartoon one in this folder for a similar cartoon. 
  • Cartoon 5: A farmer walking along with a turkey beside him and a pig at the side of the scene saying, “Dead bird walking!” and the farmer replying, “Think Christmas pig…” 
  • Cartoon 6: A person reading a newspaper saying, “Check this out, man. It says here that people with roomates have the lowest suicide rate.” They are oblivious to a incoming arrow aimed at their head with the off scene roommate responding, “What does it say about their murder rate?” 
  • Cartoon 7: A blind person and their guide dog stand in front of two bathroom doors, one with a man on the front and one with a fire hydrant on it. The dog is pushing the door with the hydrant on it pulling the person along. 
  • Cartoon 8: The rear of a car with multiple Ichthys symbols with them getting larger as you look more far right with the rightmost symbol about to eat the smaller ones and the symbol behind the largest Icthys is a scuba diver with a trident hunting the largest one.
  • Cartoon 9: Four tables in a restaurant with two being in the non-smoking section and the other two in a smoking section. The non-smoking tables are getting rained on from the interior sprinkler system since the customers tried to smoke. 
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 1996
  • Cartoon 1: A rear perspective of a car with multiple bumper stickers and signs attached reading, “Kill your television”, “Leave mine alone”, and “Starfleet Academy.” The license plate also reads, “ Data RLS!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A portrait style image of a man appearing as a newscaster in a suit and hat with multiple tiny trees jutting out from his neck. Caption reads, “And now here’s a look at what’s happening in your neck of the woods. 
  • Cartoon 3: A crowd of people with food and drinks in hand gathered around a table with a sign reading, “Gallery Crawl”, chatting with a focus on one man saying, “Oh, is there art here, too?” 
  • Cartoon 4: A large tree arches over a trio of a family who is taking pictures of it and the tree is yelling, “It’s fall! Leaves change. Get over it! This is perhaps a local reference to Asheville, NC and the Blue Ridge Parkway which attracts numerous tourists taking photos of the beautiful scenery.
  • Cartoon 5: Two men sit on a bench with one man asking the other, “What’s on tap for this weekend downtown?” and the other responding, “Let’s see…we’ve got the 3rd annual festival of food shopping, the light up your dry cleaning, and moonlight over shoe repair!” A third man off to the side of the bench adds, “Extra-ordinary!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A person walking through an absurd amount of snow in heavy cold weather clothing thinking of a smile while a flower is in front of them jutting up from the snow. A sign partially covered in snow reading, “Downtown” with a pointing arrow is also in front of the person. 
  • Cartoon 7: A very similar cartoon to cartoon 6 in this same folder with the only difference being a more zoomed in perspective of the scene and the sign reading, “Asheville” with a right pointing arrow. 
  • Cartoon 8: Two aisles in a grocery story side by side but separated by a commonly shared middle aisle with signs above both reading, “socializing” and “non-socializing” respectively. There are people talking in the socializing section and others are not interacting in the no-socializing aisle. A caption reads, “…at the co-op…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A woman at a grocery store with her children, the children are causing very high levels of chaos in the store with them breaking and spilling items. The woman continues to shop without reaction and the caption reads, “Free-range children.” 
  • Cartoon 10: multiple glass salt shakers but with human heads as lids with a large hand holding a salt container filling said shakers up with salt. Caption reads, “Side work at God’s cafe.”

Box 4:

• Folder 1 (undated): Cartoons from 1996
  • Cartoon 1: A man in a suit and earpiece resembling a federal agent stands outside a door while two men with a bag look at him while he says to them, “No one lives here. They’re gone. Move along.” The caption reads, “Jehovah’s witness protection program.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man stands on a dock waving at a trio of dolphins looking back at him with a sign on the end of the dock saying, “ Walk with a human.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A vertically oriented image of a person standing beside a water cooler staring at the head of a scuba diver within the bottle on the dispenser. 
  • Cartoon 4: An egg with arms and legs sitting in a chair with a TV remote and drink, talking to a large, angry chicken beside it saying, “Sorry…I got here first.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A rear perspective of a car with an AARP badge on the trunk and a bumper sticker reading, “Let me tell you about…what was I saying?” The car is also headed towards a “Do not enter” sign and a elderly person is driving. 
  • Cartoon 6: Two squirrels with one in a car and one standing beside it looking at a run over man they just hit. One squirrel is saying, “Oh Yuck!” and the other is saying, “Man, he ran right under the wheels!”
  • Cartoon 7: A tortoise and a hair holding controllers, playing a racing video game in extreme concentration. 
  • Cartoon 8: An annoyed father and son appear on a couch in a dentist’s office with the son saying, “But, daddy, why does the dentist call it his “practice?” and the father replies, “Sitdown” 
  • Cartoon 9: A depiction of a half opened door and a sign sitting out in front of the door reading, “Family support group-Tuesdays 7:30PM RM.108-Child care not available.” The caption reads, “I swear I saw this…” 
  • Cartoon 10: An image of a drink, tray of fries, and a burger box with the fry tray reading, “Couch Potatoes, Caution: Very Hot!” The larger caption reads, “Marketing.” 
• Folder 2 (undated): Cartoons from 1996
  • Cartoon 1: A rear perspective of a pickup truck with a driver having dreadlocks and a peace symbol hanging from the mirror and the license plate reading, “Dredneck.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A side perspective of a young child driving a toy car similar to one associated with the Fisher-Price brand with a tricycle on top of the toy car. 
  • Cartoon 3: A crowd of people contra dancing with a focus on a couple in which a shorter person is wearing a full-face helmet with a flashing light and flag attached to it. Caption reads, “Essential gear for the short contra dancer.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Three seashells with arms and legs on a beach with one pointing to a person lying in the sand saying, “…Niiice one…” 
  • Cartoon 5: A depiction of Sherlock Holmes sitting on the toilet saying, “..Therefore, by the process of elimination..” The captions reads, “Holmes has an inspiration..” 
  • Cartoon 6: A surgeon standing behind a podium with signage that reads, “Please wait to be sedated.” The doors they are standing beside are to the operating room.
  • Cartoon 7: A group of people talking on cell phones with a variety of random helmet-like items on their head including a mini phone booth, a shed, a fishbowl, and a chandelier. The caption reads, “Privacy hats for cell phone users.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A figure that resembles a monster of some kind with a large vertical style head is driving a car with a dreamcatcher hanging from the mirror that is decorated with bat wings, a snake, and an ax. 
  • Cartoon 9: A man named Harold smashes a desktop computer with a large log angrily with the caption, “Harold logs on.” 
  • Cartoon 10: The lid of a pot filled with popcorn is being raised and three pieces stuck to the top of the lid are saying, “When he goes for the salt, we make our break!” 
• Folder 3 (undated): Cartoons from 1996
  • Cartoon 1: The enlarged portrait of a man resembling that of an black man with a flat top hair style shown with a smaller man in construction garb setting up scaffolding around his hairstyle. 
  • Cartoon 2: Six different images representing TV channels possible for selection with the same person portrayed with five different expressions while one is covered by a hand holding the TV remote. The caption reads, “Channel surfing in the new age.” Each channel is named according to something relating to either a spiritual movement, group, or something related to spirituality as a topic.
  • Cartoon 3: Two birds walk along the street beside each other with one saying, “I don’t know what all the fuss is about. We’ve been living downtown for years.” This is in possible reference to the very well known public issue of houselessness in Asheville, NC with downtown Asheville being a epicenter of attention to the matter
  • Cartoon 4: Two people stand by an information desk in a grocery store with multiple tabloids being advertised with one person saying, “Tabloids at the register? Where am I, Ingles?” Ingles is a popular grocery store chain in North Carolina. 
  • Cartoon 5: A man with dreadlocks, an oil diffuser, and a teamsters pin on his shirt puts patchouli oil in his oil diffuser saying, “A little patchouli oil in da diffuser, an everybody’s smiling!” This is in reference to the popular use of this oil in the “hippie” movement known for its ability to induce relaxation and perhaps a push at the labor movement in Asheville, NC.
  • Cartoon 6: A bald person smirks with glasses on but there is an additional lens on top of the frame in position for a third eye in the middle of the forehead with the captions reading, “Asheville-Specific Product Design” and “Third Eye Glasses.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two groups of three opposing each other with one group made up of geriatric individuals and the other group being people resembling seventies styled individuals with one saying, “How about a hug?” The captions read, “ Asheville N.C.” and “Where old age meets new age.” This is perhaps in reference to the changing demographics of the city. 
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 1997
  • Cartoon 1: Three mobile homes hung from a device commonly seen over baby cradles that hold decorations and enacts motion with a caption reading, “Mobile Homes.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man standing in a tank top and underwear staring at the viewer touching his breast with the caption, “George gets in touch with his feminine side…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A cereal box with the name, “Chocolate covered tooth blasters” displayed on it with the nutrition facts beside the name reading, “None.” Caption reads, “Truth in advertising.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Multiple human sized potatoes with arms and legs being held up by a crowd of people with the caption, “Moshed potatoes.” This is in reference to a common occurrence at music venues of a chaotic crowd of people meshing and running into each other as music plays. 
  • Cartoon 5: A hunched over person watching TV thinking to themselves, “I love America” while the TV is displayed as saying, “Scoop doggie doo!!…put the rap on the canine crap!”
  • Cartoon 6: A trio of people in a band playing instruments with the person in the middle playing a possum in the way a person would play a guitar.  Caption reads, “Playing possum.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A crumpled and smashed back corner bumper of a car with a badly damaged bumper sticker still attached that reads, “If you can read this you’re too close.”
  • Cartoon 8: A blank landscape with a single road going into the far off horizon and a sign beside the road reading, “Incredibly level cartoon horizon ahead.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A plate and silverware with a half broken fortune cookie resting on the plate and the fortune in the cookie reading, “Don’t look up chump.” A silhouette of a cartoon like anvil hovers over the table and plate. In first person perspective. 
  • Cartoon 10: A fenced in field with multiple cans of Spam (Popular processed food item in the U.S) with arms and legs roaming around said field making noises such as, “Moo” and “Oink.” Caption reads, “Free-range spam.” 
• Folder 5 (dated): Cartoons from 1997
  • Cartoon 1: A pirate with a peg leg stares at the viewer while standing beside a table with one of the corner table legs being an actual human calf and foot. Pirate looks displeased. 
  • Cartoon 2: A farmer crouched down and reaching down towards a  weed which is spraying a farmer with a bottle of fluid saying, “Round this up, old MacDonald!!!” This is a reference to the popular weed killing fluid brand “Round-Up.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A person on stage with another person holding a violin announces to the crowd, “Alright, everyone, take hands twelve. This dance is a dodecahedron.” Caption reads, “Polyhedral Dancing.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A block of spam (A popular processed meat product in the U.S)  in a disturbing state looking repulsive with two off screen people saying, “The recipe was on the can.” and “Spamakopita.” The second response is a reference to the Greek dish spanakopita. 
  • Cartoon 5: A baby with its head laying on a pillow and leaning slightly to its left looking at something in the distance and an electrical port located on the child’s neck. Caption reads, “Happy, healthy, and cable ready.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A child lays on a couch in a living room with a skateboard propped against the couch and the child’s father leans into the room from a doorway asking, “Son, can I borrow the wheels today?” pointing towards the skateboard. 
  • Cartoon 7: A doorway of a men’s bathroom with one man reaching for the door in a shocked manner and the other man walking away just recently using it. A sign on the door reads, “Wait 5 minutes before entering.” Caption reads, “Signs we’d like to see…” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two furniture movers hold chairs in their hands while looking at a male and female couple dressed in Quaker attire (A religious society in the U.S) with the man shaking his finger in the air. Caption reads, “Movers and Shakers.” 
  • Cartoon 9: One man scratches at his legs furiously with another man pointing at him saying, “Don’t say chiggers, man, it’s insect-americans.” The caption reads, “Politically Corrected.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A therapist and a man talk while the man lays on a reclining, padded futon with the therapist saying, “And remember, what doesn’t kill you…” and the man thinking to himself, “Makes you wish it had.” 
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 1997
  • Cartoon 1: A man presents a TV set to a couple with the man saying, “And this remote helps you find the other remote…” A sign above the couple reads, “Stereo Television.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A four lane track with four people of varying styles of clothing and dress running towards the viewer with some including a person with dreadlocks and “reggae” oriented attire saying, “Me knickers mon!”, a person running the wrong direction with an infinity symbol on their back and pants around their ankle, and a person falling with a number one imprinted on their lower back. Caption reads, “Gen-X olympic games 100 yard dash.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A bunch of trash and past belongings in bags such as an old poster and holiday decorations placed in trash cans on the side of the street with a caption reading, “The best thing about moving.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man and waiter talk to each other with the waiter offering a cigar, martini, jazz brunch, and an espresso all to which the man does not want. The man then asks, “Meat and Potatoes?” and the waiter replies, “no.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two men ice skating in front of a crowd holding hands in a dance performance with one man thinking to himself, “It could happen.” while smirking and looking at his partner. A caption reads, “2002 Winter Olympics, Same sex pairs skating.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A person in hairnet picks at their hair with a gloved hand staring into the distance. Caption reads, “Surfing the hairnet.” two copies exist.
  • Cartoon 7: A person looking up in a shocked expression at a gargoyle head attached to the back right corner of a vehicle’s roof with the caption, “Cargoyle.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A side profile of an American football helmet with a peanut printed on the side of the helmet with the caption, “Politically corrected Washington (former name of an American football franchise whose previous name referenced a derogatory slang term for Native Americans).
  • Cartoon 9: A two men depicted with one seated in a chair with shocked expression on his face staring at the other man walking towards him shaking and with a sledgehammer in hand. A pile of what appears to be the remnants of a smashed dulcimer (A stringed instrument) lies at the feet of the walking man. Caption reads, “Hammered Dulcimer.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A person wearing a virtual reality headset and in Roman-esque robes surrounded by broken columns and scrolls thinks to themselves, “Collus Maximus.” Caption reads, “Virgil Reality”. Referencing the Roman poet Virgil.
• Folder 7 (dated): Cartoons from 1997
  • Cartoon 1: A lady stands angrily with hands on hips in the setting of an art gallery while staring back at the viewer. Caption reads, At Jud’s last opening, she didn’t put out any wine or food, believing that people should be there for her art, not the free drinks or finger-food. Later that week, Judi got a great deal on a bridge in someplace called “Brooklyn”. 
  • Cartoon 2: A man walks out of a bathroom with the sign on the door reading, “Wait 5 minutes before entering.” The caption reads, “Signs we’d like to see…” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two wooden logs sit and lay in bed with the one that is sitting up thinking to itself, “If I don’t have that stuff in by tomorrow, my (slang for a person’s rear side) is sawdust!” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man dressed like Luke Skywalker from the popular movie series Star Wars reaches out for a life preserver from a furry arm coming into the scene with the man saying, “No, Chewie, I said “Lightsaber”!!!” Writing on the life preserver reads, “S.S Minnow”, perhaps a reference to another popular show named Gilligan’s Island.  
  • Cartoon 5: A male and female couple walk down the sidewalk with the man saying, “Wow, honey, there are so many antiques in downtown Asheville!” A trio of elderly people sit on a bench nearby with one saying, “We prefer “treasured keepers of ancient wisdoms.”
  • Cartoon 6: a man asking, “I thought this hoot thing was your motorcycles.” talking to two other men in either racing suits or astronaut suits standing beside a contraption with wheels that resembles an automobile. The men reply, “This is our motorcycle.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two men walk side by side in presumably downtown Asheville, NC at a festival with one wearing a shirt reading, “Bele Chere” and saying, “It’s some hybrid scotch-french phrase that loosely means “Every-year locust.” This is in reference to a previously annual festival of music and art held in Asheville, NC. 
• Folder 8 (undated): Cartoons from 1997
  • Cartoon 1: A woman telling a Christmas story about Santa and his delivery of presents to a child saying, “And so Rudolph, the Reindeer-American, co-operated with management, guiding Santa’s sleigh through the blinding tofu store, bringing sustainably-made toys to all the girls and boys, no matter how they were judged to have behaved…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A person staring back at the viewer while riding a unicycle while saying, “…dude…all-wheel drive…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A depiction of an American football game with some of the fans in the stands showing and a part of the playing field showing. Fans are holding up a sign saying, “We still pray” and the players are holding up a sign saying, “We still play.”
  • Cartoon 4: A group of squirrels holding a funeral for another squirrel whose place of death is an imprint in the ground of the image of what their position was at death. Some squirrels are carrying the coffin of their friend which is also the shape of the imprint and not a conventional coffin. 
  • Cartoon 5: A person with closed eyes and a long candle burning while sticking out from their ear with the captions saying, “Fun Facts”, “This makes sense dept.” and “To rid their ears of wax, some people put candles in them!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Bumper sticker on back of car reading, “My inner child will be a terrific kid if I can get in touch with him.” Additional caption reads, “New age bumper stickers.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man threatening to cut an airline pilot’s throat with a dollar bill while standing behind the pilot’s chair. Caption reads, “Things you can’t take on an airplane anymore.” and “-First in a series-.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A image of a crucifix without the top vertical part of the cross with a figure resembling Jesus in a karate outfit and headband crucified on the cross. Caption reads, “Judo-Chrisitan.”  
  • Cartoon 9: A boxing coach in a boxing ring yelling, “Kid, you’re e-mailing every punch!” to a boxer with a desktop computer for a head but has a normal body. 
  • Cartoon 10: An angry mob chasing two men dressed in Shriner attire (A masonic order popular for their charity efforts and creation of hospitals) with one riding a small motorbike and the other running. The angry mob is saying, “Those guys look like arabs! Get’em!” Note that the Shriner that is running has on a sash that reads, “Oasis Temple”, a masonic temple and base in Charlotte, NC.
• Folder 9 (undated): Cartoons from 1997
  • Cartoon 1: A sign outside a high school reading, “Pagan High School: God Less America.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Vertically oriented image of a man in a shirt and tie pointing to a small figure engulfed in flame in a yogic position on a desk. Man is saying, “Not a budh light…” In reference to the popular American beer company and perhaps to the infamous photo showing a Vietnamese monk (Thich Quang Duc) self immolation in protest in 1963. 
  • Cartoon 3: A desktop computer sitting at a wooden desk and placed in an office chair pointed towards the viewer with a framed picture of another desktop computer, perhaps of an earlier model of the same computer, above the seated computer. 
  • Cartoon 4: A rear perspective of an extremely wide car taking up two lanes of a road with a Florida license plate and two people in the vehicle. A caption above the car reads, “Just when you thought it was safe…” and a smaller caption reading, “Dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh dunh.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A male and female couple looking at two groups of duo’s with one group being two identical males and the other identical females. The female group has one woman saying to the couple, “No, Derrick and I have split.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A person putting dirty laundry into a washing machine while the washing machine is saying to the man, “I don’t believe this! Chocolate! Again?!!” The caption reads, “Soon all machines will have memories…” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two people sit in a car while one person says to the other, “You know that guy’s from out of town. He’s using his turn signals.” A car is seen further down the road from their windshield indicating to make a left turn in front of them. 
  • Cartoon 8: A side profile of the NASA space shuttle deploying a double wide mobile home from its upper cargo hold while an astronaut floats nearby. Caption reads, “Shuttle deploys PH-DW 1 (Portable Habitat-Double Wide).” 
  • Cartoon 9: A rear perspective of a car while two elderly people are traveling down a road and a bumper sticker on the back of the car reads, “We’re still grey.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A figure depicted on a throne in royal attire, smoking, and pointing to direct an executioner in a robe to cut off a tied up man’s head located at the bottom of the throne’s stairs. The executioner is thinking, “There’s a couple of other things I’d like to cut off.” and the man is thinking, “So many men, so little, eh?” 
• Folder 10 (dated): Cartoons from 1998
  • Cartoon 1: A man, dog, and car placed beside each other with arrows and captions pointing to different aspects of each person, object, animal such as the man having, “Press on temporary goatee and tattoo.” pointing towards his face and arm. Larger caption at top says, “Gen Xtreme, poser conversion kit.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man is hunched over with a woman slumped over his back and shoulders while they both look into a mirror and a caption saying, “Ella fits Gerald.” This is perhaps a reference to the popular American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. 
  • Cartoon 3: Two cars depicted driving with one car ramming the other off the road down a cliff side. The car flying off the cliff has a bumper sticker reading, “I’d rather be flying” and the driver in the car still on the road is saying, “You’re welcome…” 
  • Cartoon 4: A houseless man depicted as sitting,  smelling and dirty smiles as he says, “Dude…” A sign beside the man reads, “Won’t work, still want food.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two people in a skatepark with one in skating safety gear displayed as beaten up and with broken arms and legs at the bottom of a ramp saying, “Ow.” The other person is in the background pointing at an object saying, “It’s okay, dude, I found the black box.” Referencing a device known as a black box in airplanes for recording purposes.  
  • Cartoon 6: A spokesman for NASA speaks at a podium and points to a diagram of a space suit made of bubble wrap while saying, “Bubble Wrap.” Larger caption reads, “How NASA plans to make sure nothing happens to John Glenn.” John Glenn is a former NASA astronaut and first person to orbit the earth. 
  • Cartoon 7: A elderly man riding an electric scooter with an oxygen system on it and connecting to his nose looks to his left to a baby in a stroller looking back at him. Man appears to have a slight smirk with judging eyes. 
  • Cartoon 8: A person in a heavy winter jacket with a fur lined hood stares at another person bent over, exposing their buttox, ice fishing through a hole in a frozen lake. The person in the jacket is thinking, “Icehole.” 
  • Cartoon 9: An imprint of a skydiver in the ground appearing to have failed to activate their parachute. The parachute has been replaced with a human brain and the caption reads, “Minds are not like parachutes.” 
  • Cartoon 10: The inside of an empty movie theater and screen is shown as displaying, “The technical crew of this film wish to thank you for watching all of the credits. Pick up your complimentary fifty dollar bill at the door on your way out.” 
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 1998
  • Cartoon 1: A man sitting in a recliner chair watching TV telling a woman, “That’s  right, honey, ACC stands for all chores cease. “ as she leans on the TV with an annoyed expression. A response from the wife is covered with a piece  of adhesive paper that is barely visible but indistinguishable. 
  • Cartoon 2: A man plays an acoustic guitar on a stage in front of a crowd with a figure in the crowd with a mohawk, multiple piercings, and a tattoo walks away annoyed saying, “..Folk this..” 
  • Cartoon 3: A self full body image of David at his artist desk currently drawing a cartoon being approached by a clown with wheels for legs, an arrow through its head, a goatee, and a multitude of other random attributes saying, “…Man, how do you come up with ideas for cartoons? 
  • Cartoon 4: A female doctor holds a baseball bat while saying, “No more pain in your leg, right?” to a patient who has a lump on their head and is semi-conscious. A caption reads, “Alternative Medicine.”  
  • Cartoon 5: A expansive landscape showing either a random canyon or the Grand Canyon with two skaters at the bottom of the image with one riding a skateboard and the other saying, “Awesome!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A rear window of a car with a sticker in the top right corner reading, “Go fighting snipers!” and an additional sticker at the bottom of the window reading, “Fort Benning school of assassins.” Fort Benning is a U.S Army base that holds the training grounds and school for Army snipers. 
  • Cartoon 7: A teenager sitting in an armchair depicted as in a state of decay and their body falling apart with the caption, “Man, that kid is spoiled rotten!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A pickup truck on cinder blocks with all the wheels missing and “0x4” written on the driver side of the truck at the bottom of the door. 
  • Cartoon 9: A man laying in a reclining chair as his son listens to a giant radio contraption behind him. The child looks confused and the radio has a very odd decorative case around it. Caption reads, “America’s funniest home radio’s.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A person in a marching band uniform with a tuba wrapped around them jumping in mid-air yelling, “Stars and stripes forever dude!” A larger caption reads, “March Madness.” 
• Folder 12 (dated): Cartoons from 1998
  • Cartoon 1: Two separate images of a person at a crosswalk looking at a sign with one displaying the person standing, looking at a sign reading, “Don’t walk” and the other the person is sprinting across as the sign reads, “Run!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man handing out candy at his doorway on halloween saying, “Hey, hon, come look-it’s Monica Lewinsky’s dress!” as a child stands with what appears to be a jacket, garbage bag, or another item draped over them with a strange illustration on it staring back at the man. 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men talking to each other with one man on the left having multiple facial piercings and a TV remote hanging from their ear saying, “Plus, I always know where it is…” 
  • Cartoon 4: A depiction of a driveway to a home with a mailbox at the end with text on its side reading, “www.home.com.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two portraits of two men talking with the one on the left asking, “New stereo in your car?” The man on the right who is bleeding from their eyes, ears, and nose replies, “What?” 
  • Cartoon 6: A mostly all black colored card with an illustration of a kerosene lamp illuminating from the darkness with the captions saying left to right, “Isn’t this fun, kids? It’s like the pioneer days before electricity!”, “I’m tired of wearing my sleeping bag!”, and “Is there a kerosene television?” 
  • Cartoon 7: A waiter taking a man’s order with the man asking, “And what is this..”Smothered Chicken?” A chef in the background is killing a chicken by smothering it with a pillow. 
  • Cartoon 8: A woman talking on the phone as she gets her food from a fast food worker in a drive through window with the person on the phone saying, “Ms. Moorem if you switch now, we can guarantee savings up to…” and the woman driver is thinking, “How do they always manage to call when I’m eating?!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man in a chariot rushes away and whips his horse in urgency as a lion chases the chariot angrily. A Ichthys symbol is attached to the rear of the chariot and the caption reads, “Bad marketing idea.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two worms stand outside of a chiropractor’s office with one of the worms just exited and the other worm saying to them, “Excuse me, Larry, we’re invertebrates!” 
• Folder 13 (dated): Cartoons from 1998
  • Cartoon 1: A man in a suit and a man in a baggy hoodie and pants walk by each other with both of the men staring at each other thinking, “Look at that outfit! What a clown!” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two people talk as the person on the right holds a dog leash with their dog appearing as having a large, smiling human head with a stylish haircut. The person with the dog is saying, “Yes, Spot has done some commercials as well as a feature film.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A side profile of a child driving a toy car with a tricycle attached to the roof. A substance is covering the child’s face and is perhaps food or a drink of some kind. 
  • Cartoon 4: A person mowing their yard but is already covered in grass matching their total height even after just mowing over it with the machine. The person is depicted as thinking, “Jeez, this stuff grows fast.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A elderly man on the peak of a mountain looking at the very sharp tip of the mountain saying, “Yeah, I’m wise enough not to sit on that…” Larger caption reads, “Cartoon cliches debunked, first in a series.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two people dressed in very baggy clothing, multiple piercings, and looking very bored are depicted on a golf course with one of the people having a putter sticking through their ear and another holding a golf club bag. Larger caption reads, “First Tiger Woods, then…” 
  • Cartoon 7: A reindeer shaped creation made out of olives and toothpicks stands next to a container of wooden toothpicks with the caption, “Olive the other reindeer.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A large man drives a car in which his head is creating a dent in the roof due to him being too big and is thinking, “I love my glove LX 2000” and a larger caption reading, “Did you ever notice that some of the biggest people drive the littlest cars?” 
  • Cartoon 9: A person runs in a scenic landscape with headphones on but the noise coming from the headphones depicts the erratic and loud noises of a cityscape with abundant traffic. 
  • Cartoon 10: A person in a car looks over to a man on the side of the road with a folding table and a sign that reads, “Will massage for food.” Caption reads, “Asheville 1998.” 
  • Cartoon 11: A highway sign reading, “Asheville, turn signal use last month: 0%, record: 0%.” Two copies exist.
  • Cartoon 12: A close up of a shirt pocket with pins reading, “FBFC Cashier” (Perhaps a reference to a local grocery store called the French Broad Food Co-Op) and “I don’t know when.” 
  • Cartoon 13: A man sits at a desk with a desktop computer monitor depicted as in his crotch area moving under the desk seemingly performing a sexual act. Caption reads, “Hey, the damn computer has gone down on me again!” 
• Folder 14 (undated): Cartoons from 1998
  • Cartoon 1: A sign in a yard by a mailbox and in front of a house that reads, “June 24th+25th Sat.+Sun. 3-Family useless crap sale.”  
  • Cartoon 2: A man sitting at a table drinking from a cup with a clock in the background but the man appears to be hollow and half filled with liquid. A caption reads, “Fill in the blank.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A person stands on a stage playing a guitar and yelling loudly as no crowd appears except for a woman walking away covering her ears. A sign near the stage reads, “Tonite, Screecher/Songwriter night, no cover.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A figure resembling the character Yoda from the popular movie franchise Star Wars is depicted in the checkout line of a grocery store asking, “Senior discounts giving you are?!” while staring at the viewer. 
  • Cartoon 5: A cashier tells a customer in a check out line, “We’re sorry…our credit card machine is down.” as a person next to the cashier holds a baseball bat and is staring at a destroyed credit card machine shaking. 
  • Cartoon 6: Two women talk to each other while their kids are with them. One woman on the left says, “Tofu…b-12…organic lettuce…spelt….” and the one on the right says, “Arnica..tempeh…transitional apples…bulk liquid soap…soy milk…” Kids are depicted as saying, “Earthballs” and “Bouncy balls.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A smaller card depicting a front facing nude man with no genitals but reaching both hands behind his back and shoulder. A caption reads, “If God didn’t want us to masturbate, he would have put our genitals between our shoulder blades.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two people converse while one says holding a newspaper, “Here’s one: “Drummer needed for alternative Christian band.” and the other holding a pair of drumsticks responding, “What is that,.like,..Jewish music?” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man and a turkey holding American flags and t-shirts walk beside each other with the man’s shirt reading, “Don’t forget 9-11” and the turkey’s, “What about 11-22?” 
  • Cartoon 10: A group of men gather around an outdoor grill while one pours a liquid on the grill with one man asking, “Lighter fluid?” and the other responding, “Testosterone.” A man in the back adds, “Got that right.” 
• Folder 15 (undated): Cartoons from 1998
  • Cartoon 1: Vertical oriented drawing of a person looking at a drying machine with the options of heat control reading, “Lo”, “Hi”, “Jamaica”, and “Hell.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Eldery person pulling a small grocery cart along while having a mohawk hairstyle and presumably pieces of hair trailing behind them as they walk on. 
  • Cartoon 3: Two dinosaurs working out with one being a T-Rex doing barbell curls with a weight belt and another possibly being a Parasuarolophus on a treadmill.. A banner on the wall reads, “No Brain, No Pain.”
  • Cartoon 4: A half portrait of a person’s upper face with the top of their head heaving a miniature scaled house with a fenced in yard and tree on top of it. The caption reads, “A lot on my mind.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Three people stand beside each other with one on the very left looking posh and fancy depicted as having a smell coming from them, presumably perfume. A person on the far right is depicted as dirty with a lot of face piercings and smelling badly. A person in the middle of the two is seemingly confused and is saying, “Whoa.” A larger caption reads, “Aromamisery.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A turtle speaks at a podium saying, “We find the use of the term “Turtleneck” to be very derogatory and disrespectful to all Amphibian-Americans.” A sign next to the turtle reads, “Stick your neck out for turtle rights.” 
  • Cartoon 7: An art gallery depicted as having chickens arranged as the art pieces hanging from the wall and on pedestals in varying positions. People look on with a caption reading, “Freely arranged chicken.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A group of men and women sit in church pews as two men are asleep and the woman looking annoyed looks away during the service. Caption reads, “Bored-again Christians.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A side profile of a line of people lining up to a stand that is selling “Hotcakes” and a cook behind the stand thinking to himself, “Man, these things are really selling!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A shirtless man stands with hands on hips in swim trunks, a Batman mask, and a Batman utility belt and is saying, “That’s right, citizen……a sport utility belt.” 
• Folder 16 (undated): Cartoons from 1998
  • Cartoon 1: A wooden picket sign reading, “No ozoning in Buncombe.” The O in ozoning appears to be painted in front of the intended word zoning. 
  • Cartoon 2: Two children walking in a school hallway with large backpacks both looking over their shoulder at a student pushing his school supplies in a wheelbarrow down the hallway. 
  • Cartoon 3: Three people on the same street doing a variety of activities such as biking, driving, and intending on walking across the street. All of them are distracted on the phone and appear to be part of an incoming accident colliding with each other
  • Cartoon 4: A chicken and an egg lay in bed with the chicken displaying a dissatisfied expression towards the egg after apparent intercourse. The egg is saying to the chicken, “Well, I guess we know the answer to that question. 
  • Cartoon 5 : A group of referees seemingly in bad attitudes and physical condition walking with a cart full of belongings. The caption reads, “Refugees.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man in a suit walks by a seemingly houseless and passed out drunk man with a bottle in hand. A sign in between the two reads, “Wino at work.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Unclear object, possibly tin foil or depiction of food in a freezer next to ice cream, ice cubes, and tomatoes with the object thinking to itself, “Curses, foiled again.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man and a woman sit on a couch watching the news while the woman says, “Why do they keep doing the weather map back and forth?” The man responds, “Good question. Why do we keep watching it?”. Woman replies, “Good question.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A depiction of an automotive brake mechanic shop at the end of a very sharp turn with a sign by the sharp turn reading, “Last chance brakes.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A person with facial piercings and glasses leaning out of a car saying towards the viewer, “..Cut me off like that.!..I’ll give you such a pinch!” The larger caption reads, “Road hissy fit.”

Box 5:

• Folder 1 (undated): Cartoons from 1998
  • Cartoon 1: Three people walk down the beach with a elderly man in the middle who has varicose veins in his legs. A man on the elderly man’s left is saying, “Dude, nice tattoos…” and a woman on his right says to him, “They look just like varicose veins, don’t they? 
  • Cartoon 2: Vertically oriented drawing of a person bundled up head to toe in winter weather clothing with a single flower sticking out of their hat as the wind whips around them. 
  • Cartoon 3: A front perspective of a man driving a wide car looking annoyed and a bumper sticker displayed on his front bumper reading, “Actually, your lane is wide enough for your car.” 
  • Cartoon 4: The front of a business which is a “Mediation Center.” In the window of the building a dog and a cat sit at a table with angry expressions on both of their faces looking at each other.
  • Cartoon 5: Two people stand on what appears to be a hill next to a sidewalk looking out over a hilly scenic view. The person on the left says, “I can’t get this (expletive) song out of my head!” The other person responds, “Is that the one, “If you tell me the title I will have to kill you?”
  • Cartoon 6: A man’s head coming out of another person’s anus while the head of the man being excreted is saying angrily, “You gotta be (slang for excreting) me!
  • Cartoon 7: A person stares at a woman who has headphones on with a microphone attached to them uttering the words, “Blah…blah…blah…blah…” while the caption reads, “Likes to hear the sound of her own voice…” 
  • Cartoon 8: A squirrel stands screaming in the middle of the road with arms spread to either side while saying, “We won’t stop until you recognize our right to exist!” The larger caption reads, “Suicide squirrles.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man in winter weather clothing urinates in some snow writing the sentence, “Dear Santa, I’m writing-.” The larger caption reads, “P-mail.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A frog sits in a chair as in the background behind him another frog walks through a doorway into the room with a giant fork or trident through his body. The frog in the chair asks, “How was the gig?” 
• Folder 2 (undated): Cartoons from 1998
  • Cartoon 1: A rear window of a car with a drawn-on sentence covering the entire window reading, “I pray more than ever.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A manhole uncovered with construction flags, signs, and barriers around it while flames, smoke, and tiny explosions come from the hole itself. A sign nearby reads, “Mojo working.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two women shop for clothes with one trying on pants telling the other woman, “Like, these jeans are really tight!” The other woman responds while holding an odd looking item seemingly in the shape of a tongue saying, “What’s a “butthorn?”
  • Cartoon 4: The food franchise mascot for Kentucky Fried Chicken, Colonel Sanders, reenacts the infamous Dr. Frankenstein scene with a chicken tied to a table being electrocuted to life. The chicken is hooked to numerous machines and buckets of chicken are strewed along the ground near the table. Colonel Sanders exclaims, “It’s alive!” and the larger caption reads, “Chickenstien.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two people dressed in very odd and strange attires holding similarly bizarre objects in their hands look at an off scene person who is asking them, “You guys do odd jobs, right? 
  • Cartoon 6: A vertically oriented image of a scientist reading a book at a table with equipment for lab experiments on it. The cover of the book reads, “I’m not mad, you’re not mad.” by an unclear author. 
  • Cartoon 7: Four individuals standing side by side with left from right wearing, a plaid tucked in shirt with jeans, dreadlocks and very baggy clothing, a striped suit and briefcase, and a tight tank top with striped pants. Caption reads, “Halloween’s over…take the costumes off…” 
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 1999
  • Cartoon 1: A man in a truck looks at a stop sign that has many other signs attached under it to its pole. Signs read “Stop”, “Zoning”, “Moving to Asheville”, “Manifesting negative dimensions”, “Being different than me” and “Whining.” Larger caption reads, “Our fair city ‘99.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A front perspective of a person driving a Volkswagen car with the inscription, “Jason” on their forehead. A cargo carrier reading, “Thule.” sits on top of the car as they drive. 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men sit at a desk and look at each other with one pointing and making a scowl at the other man who has a carpenter’s triangle tool lodged in his head. The caption reads, “Touched by an angle.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A family of a man, woman, and small daughter stand as the father misses a nose and the mother has lines for eyes. The daughter is depicted as having a giant nose and large eyes. A caption beside the family reads, “She has Jim’s nose, but those are my eyes!” 
  • Cartoon 5: A person looks at the snow angel they just recently made, the snow angel has a smile which is because of the person’s backward hat and them laying on their back. 
  • Cartoon 6: A person who is smiling very widely and wide eyed asks another person, “Help me……please…” The person responds by smirking and saying, “Hey man, the holidays are over.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Five people stand side by side in a bus stop area. They all have different tops but are all wearing the same jeans with one asking another, “Have you heard anything about a denim shortage?”
• Folder 4 (undated): Cartoons from 1999
  • Cartoon 1: A storefront with a display showing rows of square shaped pies of varying flavor and a cashier with a hat that is also a square pie smiles at the viewer. A sign above the storefront reads, “Pies (backwards R) Square.” A possible reference to the popular toy store Toys ‘R’ Us. 
  • Cartoon 2: A top down view of a toilet with the seat down and a label laid across the seat reading, “Satanized for your protection!” A caption beside the toilet reads, “…at the Hell hotel..” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men sit at a bar drinking and one man asks the other, “Why does everyone hate us?!” The other replies, “Lite Rock.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A hand reaches for a turnable cap on a machine of some sort, the cap reads, “Turn counterclockwise to loosen.” The person the hand belongs to is depicted as saying, “What the (expletive) does that mean?!” in an aggravated tone. 
  • Cartoon 5: A group of people standing in line at what appears to be a movie theater with many in the line asking how many times has the other went or praising the effects of the film. Yet, a person near a movie theater staff member asks what movie it is and the staff member responds, “Bathroom-The Rancid Popcorn” revealing it’s actually the line for the bathroom. 
  • Cartoon 6: A depiction of a man carrying a bag of dirty diapers out of the Woodfin police department (A local police force in Asheville, NC) and into his van with a sign on it reading, “Rankin diaper services.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two people who are depicted as a retiree or tourist and a person with facial piercings and dreadlocks staring at a bumper sticker reading, “If you like Asheville now, you should have seen it before you got here.” 
• Folder 5 (undated): Cartoons from 2000
  • Cartoon 1: A image of the outside of a building with a billboard outside beside it reading, “Travel Pro Inc: Titanic Action Figures Here!” A caption reads, “Poorly conceived merchandising tie-ins.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man staring at a computer in a startled expression with the computer saying to the man, “…had you going there, didn’t I?” A larger caption reads, “12:01am, January 1st, 2000.” A reference to the Y2K scare which falsely predicted errors relating to storage systems of computers and calendar programs. 
  • Cartoon 3: A man points at a sign that reads, “Vote me, 2000” and exclaims, “Thank God that’s over!” Another man beside him stares at a politician stabbing a sign in the ground on the other side of the exclaiming man reading, “Vote me, 2004.”
• Folder 6 (undated): Cartoon from 2001
  • Cartoon 1: The back left window of a motor vehicle depicted with a sign that is “Made in China” displaying a flag waving in the wind that reads, “Where was your flag Sept. 10?”?

Box 6:

• Folder 1 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: Former president Barack Obama sitting on a beach while a flurry of media watch him from afar. The former president thinks to himself, “Next vacation we’re going to Cheney’s undisclosed location…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A close up of a side of a school bus with two retractable stop signs that read, “Pay” “Attention!!!” “Buncombe City Schools” is also presumably printed on the side of the bus.
  • Cartoon 3:  Sarah Palin at a podium talking to a crowd depicted as varying possible world leaders also in a cartoon style 
  • Cartoon 4: A group of one woman and two men stand outside a door with a plaque beside it that reads, “The GOP”, a elephant stands in the window of the door as well. The woman in the group is saying to the elephant, “Oh yeah?! Hey pal, you need us a lot more than we need you!!” 
  • Cartoon 5: Former president Barack Obama talking to a crowd of asian peoples who are holding signs protesting the restrictive internet access in China and overall party corruption within the country of China. Obama is saying to them, “I can’t press the issue too hard…your dad might cut off my allowance.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A scene of cows, farmers, and farm equipment with the label, “Traffic Jams” over the equipment and trucks and, “Smog” over a group of smelly cows. The larger caption reads, “Swannanoa avoids the pitfalls of city-hood…” 
  • Cartoon 7: President Barack Obama on a cliff reaching for an anvil or a rope with the choice not being clear. There are two figures dangling from a limb under the cliff with them depicted as the country Iran with one figure’s clothes having, “Anti-government protesters” written on them and the figure screaming, “Liberate us!” The other figure has a sword and is labeled as, “Oppressive Theocrats” and is screaming, “Death to America!”
  • Cartoon 8: A torso and legs of a person riding a horse with a scream coming from under the horse saying, “Carl!” and the larger caption reading, “Out from under the saddle.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A doctor and a nurse conversing with the doctor using a computer in the background. The nurse says to the doctor, “Hey doc, I can read your writing now.” with the larger caption reading, “The bright digital future of healthcare.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two men talking to each other with one appearing as a doctor and the other as a patient in a sleeveless shirt. The doctor is reading off the patient’s diagnosis which is displayed as, “Let’s see-repeatedly mumbling meaningless catchphrases…glassy eyes, indicative of someone who believes their candidate can actually make a difference…intermittent hearing loss-only hearing what you already believe…mental instability-the incident with campaign signs and the chainsaw. I’m afraid it’s PESD, post-election stress disorder.” 
• Folder 2 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A depiction of Joe Lieberman as a superhero flying with the caption saying, “What’s that in the sky? Is it a democrat? Is it a republican? No, It’s Lieberman…” Other text on the card includes parodying of superpowers in reference to political actions Lieberman undertook and a critique of U.S senators ego’s. 
  • Cartoon 2: Former president Barack Obama saluting a coffin of a fallen U.S soldier thinking to himself, “I’m sorry… I’m deciding as fast as I can…”
  • Cartoon 3: A police officer and two tourists watch a duo of seemingly houseless people walk by with one reading a newspaper saying, “Asheville sure makes it onto a lot of lists, for one reason or another.” The person they are walking with responds, “I believe we’re on one of Asheville’s list ourselves.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A trio of people on a floating piece  of ice in the ocean all dressed in formal attire with a captions reading, “The next endangered species,” “Moderatus Republicanus.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A dark hole located in a tunnel in the center of the card surrounded by a white background reads, “The GOP in 2009.” A larger caption reads, “The tunnel at the end of the light…” 
  • Cartoon 6: A speaker at a podium in front of the formerly erected Vance Monument in downtown Asheville, NC saying to a lone camera operator, “Today, in honor of the economic engine that is driving Asheville to the forefront of national prominence, we re-dedicate the Vance Monument as “Ol’ Zeb’s Pale Ale!” A smaller caption reads, “Please gawk responsibly.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two elderly people sit on a couch watching TV with a male figure pointing at the TV which depicts a recent terrorist attack. The male is saying, “Remember when suicide used to only be about killing yourself?!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A person with a dog nose and ears listening to an old styled wall mounted telephone that is saying, “Dear sir/ma’am/senator, let us take care of your internet for you, on your computer-box thingee…” The person is also wearing a pin that reads, “McCain.” A larger caption at the top reads, “You’re a plugger if you believe everything the telecoms tell you.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A person in a car looks out of their window at a road that has had a recent landslide and is impassable, a sign that reads, “Vital link to economic recovery” is on the other side of the landslide. The car’s license plate reads, “WNC.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A group of three elephants located under a tent that is labeled, “GOP.” One elephant in the middle appears to have on a bomb vest and is about to dentonate while saying, “I’m taking all of you with me!!” The other two elephants are running away in a panic.
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 2009: 
  • Cartoon 1: Uncle Sam standing by a lemonade stand-like desk with a sign that reads, “Cash for Clunkers.” He is turning out his pockets and saying, “Actually I’m out of cash. Will you take a credit card?” to a man reaching out his hand. The man’s partner in the car is saying, “Get a photo I.D.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Bill Clinton popping out of Kim Jong-il’s hair with only his face and hands showing saying, “Boo!” 
  • Cartoon 3: A for sale sign for a house in Buncombe County North Carolina with an additional sign reading, “Whew” written crudely in paint. A newspaper sits on the ground that reads, “Home sales start to rebound.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Dick Cheney rants at a podium while an elephant and Uncle Sam converse, the elephant is saying, “When it came to the military, there was no “dithering” for Dick Cheney!” Uncle Sam responds, “I think the word you’re looking for is “Dodging.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Former president Barack Obama walks quickly while saying, “John, I don’t have the luxury of doing anything “Leisurely”.” While holding a file that reads, “Afghanistan.” John McCain walks slowly behind him saying, “Slow down, (expletive) it!!!”
  • Cartoon 6: A toad on the phone, driving a car,  saying, “I croaked when he hopped out in front of me, and now he’s screaming I gave him the flipper!” Another toad beats on the glass of the car outside and the smaller caption reads, “Toad Rage.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A large caption reads, “U.S House passes resolution confirming Hawaii as the birthplace of Barack Obama; declares “birther” controversy officially dead.” An angry man to the side of the caption is screaming, “Show me a death certificate!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man and a woman stand talking to each other with the man being dressed in formal military attire, pointing to one of his awarded ribbons on his chest he says, “And this one is for not committing suicide since I’ve been back.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Sarah Palin riding a snowmobile waving goodbye as a group of people say, “There she goes, riding off into the sunset!”, and “I bet she quits that too” as she rides out of a cave looking area. 
  • Cartoon 10: A ship sinking to the  bottom of the ocean appearing to be militaristic in origin with the ship saying, “..Get me damage control..” as it sinks 
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: Uncle Sam and Barack Obama traveling down a road in a car together but Uncle Sam is kicking Obama out of the moving car while the former president is in a tuxedo and there are cans on the back of the car mimicking a common wedding celebratory practice. A card on the back of the car reads, “Honeymoon over.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Dick Chenek depicted as nearing the gates of hell with the devil waiting but also being inspected by the secret service to ensure the protection of former vice president, Dick Cheney. The caption reads, “President Obama extends secret service protection for former VP Cheney.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Barack Obama depicted as a rabbit and a tortoise that is labeled “Congress” run on a path with an overpass reading, “Health care marathon” behind them. Obama is depicted as saying, “Quit draggin’ your feet! My fans are waiting at the finish line!!
  • Cartoon 4: A portrait of a man in a suit with dog ears and nose as well as a dog collar with “Heath” depicted on it. Hilary Clinton is also in the scene saying, “We’re still working on heel.” A larger caption reads, “You can teach a new dog blue tricks.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Dick Cheney being revealed from under a rock with a giant hand gripping the rock. Cheney is saying, “Hey, put that back!!” while the larger caption at the top reads, “The disclosed location.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A mountain sized pile of trash rests in the background while a small building with a sign that reads, “Buncombe Co. Landfill.” sits in the foreground. Two men are beside the building near a truck with one sayin, “It does give full Buncombe” a whole new twist.” 
  • Cartoon 7: An astronaut in full gear gazes upon a launch of the space shuttle with words in the cloud of smoke being depicted as reading, “Launch Delays.” The astronaut is thinking to themselves, “…Finally, another leap for mankind…” 
  • Cartoon 8: A shark swims towards a fleeing couple onto land with the shark being labeled as, “Woodfin.” and the couples being labeled as, “Erwin Hills and Leicester.” A larger caption says, “Get out of the water if you see a fin.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A newspaper on the ground reads, “Military to ban smoking” while two fully combat uniformed and armed U.S soldiers walk side by side with one of them saying, “I’d kill for a cigarette!” and the other replying, “maybe that’s what they have in mind…”  
  • Cartoon 10: A scene of a small waterfall or dam and a river beside it with people fishing, inner tubing, kayaking, and white water rafting. Some houses are in the background and the larger caption reads, “Dillsboro and Duke do the King Solomon thing.” 
• Folder 5 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: Chinese president Hu Jintao  stands in a barrel mashing a substance with his feet while saying, “Crushed ethic minorities! An old family recipe!” Barack Obama sits to the side with a frown and holding bottles of the liquid of the substance being mashed up. 
  • Cartoon 2: A bear speaks at a podium with, “Black ‘09, City Council” written on a sign in front of it while saying, “Bear lanes, affordable dens, more bird feeders and less condos!” A larger caption reads, “Soon they’ll be seeking representation…” 
  • Cartoon 3: An airport traffic conductor stands on a runway with flags reading, “Ninguna Manera” (translates to “No Way”) Manuel as a plane titled, “Zelaya” tries to land. This is in reference to an attempt by the former Honduran president Manuel Zelaya who was ousted from power and the country of Honduras over conflicts relating to the possibility of violating term limits to reenter the country but faced opposition from political activist groups. 
  • Cartoon 4: Two kids watch TV with Barack Obama depicted as giving a speech on the screen while a group of parents with signs reading with such things as, “Hands off, communist in-chief!!”, and “Don’t listen kids!” stand off to the side. Cartoon is possibly mocking a conservative knee jerk reaction to fears about socialism and indoctrination of Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. 
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama leaning back on a chair and with feet on a desk speaks to a man wearing a “USA” t-shirt and the former president is saying, “I’m telling you, passing healthcare reform is almost as painful as passing kidney stones!!” The man responds, “Try it without insurance.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Former president Franklin D. Roosevelt thought to himself, “If I say so myself…one of my best ideas ever…” as he smiles near a cake that is commemorated on the 75th birthday of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 
  • Cartoon 7: Barack Obama with luggage in hand and a shirt that reads, “I (heart) Cape Cod” looks upon his house that has been defiled with “Investigate this” painted across the front door. Obama is thinking to himself, “That damn Cheney kid again!” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two people look out onto the Blue Ridge Parkway to a road that now has walls erected to diffuse noise pollution on the popular recreational driving road, yet the walls have inhibited the natural scenery of the view. One person looking out says, “Noise abatement walls on the parkway?!?” while the other replies, “We had to give up the view to silence the few.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Bugs bunny holds a sign that says, “Bicyclist season” while Daffy Duck who appears injured with parts of a bicycle in hand says to him, “When ith it not bithyclitht theathon, buthter?!”
  • Cartoon 10: Two men being labeled as “Traditional electricity companies” stick their heads in the ground having a conversation about the new concept of solar energy and how they are ill prepared to make the conversion over to accepting new forms of energy sources. Cartoon mocks the archaic attitude of electric companies overall. 
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A large, obese man standing by a car with a zoomed in window of a sticker on the car window that hints that the car runs on body fat. The caption reads, “America kills two birds with one stone…” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two men gaze at the sun with one thinking to himself while surrounded by electrical appliances that are unplugged, “How can I get some of that?” The other man who is dressed in a suit labeled, “Electrical utilities” is thinking to himself, “How can I charge for some of that?”  
  • Cartoon 3: A depiction of Michael Steele, an American conservative politician, being under a large falling object labeled, “Steele missteps” with two elephants walking away with one saying, “Believe us, it has nothing to do with you being black.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two people gaze upon a wind turbine in the distance with one of the people saying, “I’m still not sold on wind power here in the mountains” and the other person replying, “Yeah, it does seem like most of the moving air is down Raleigh way.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A colorful image with Barack Obama driving a car and waiting at the base of a hill while saying to another person, “We’re trying to decide how to get up this big hill.” The hill is labeled, “Climate deal verification.” The person responds, “Can you turn off your engine until you figure it out?”
  • Cartoon 6: A cartoon with a visual focus on a sidewalk and a street and a caption that reads, “A domestic partnership that all of Asheville benefits from-.” In possible reference to the need for a more walkable city displayed by some public opinion within the area to accommodate the denser population growing within the cities downtown and other nearby areas. 
  • Cartoon 7: A presumably notable figure of Asheville, NC is depicted with an abnormally large head standing as a police car in the background says, “Hey doc, your has gotten a little “plus” sized. It’s a good thing you got on that voter-reducing plan.” 
  • Cartoon 8: An elephant in a lab coat says, “Take a dash of style over substance, add some anti-intellectualism, a little bit of faux populism, all in a base of calculated fear mongering…subject it to enormous pressure.” The end result being a portrait of Sarah Palin in a pressure cooker like scientific device mocking her campaign strategy within U.S politics. 
  • Cartoon 9: A depiction of Barack Obama as a plumber trying to fix a plumbing issue gone horribly wrong under a sink while the top of the sink reads, “Afghanistan policy.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A depiction of South Carolina’s former governor Mark Sanford  hiking at a fork in the trailhead with one way reading, “Impeachment” and the other, “Appalachian.” the governor is taking the latter trail while an off screen voice says, “Wrong trail, governor…” 
• Folder 7 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A image mocking a scene in the popular movie “The Wizard of Oz” in which a wicked witch is crushed by a house. Yet, in this depiction the witches’ legs are labeled as “Palestinians” and the house is labeled, “New East Jerusalem settlements.” An off scene voice is saying, “Bibi, I don’t think we’re in accord anymore.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A outline of the state of North Carolina with a highlighted portion of western North Carolina and a person resembling former senate majority leader Martin Nesbitt telling a building that represents the NC senate to increase more focus in western North Carolina but being ignored by the senate. A larger caption reads, “Martin Nesbitt elected as senate majority leader…” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two people look into a window, possibly a storefront with TV’s that display the words, “Oprah to step down in 2011.” One of the people says, “Good for her! What does she have left to accomplish?” A poster with Oprah Winfrey’s face on it is posted on a wall nearby by parodying a popular media ad campaign poster used by Barack Obama in his presidential campaign. 
  • Cartoon 4: A close up of a tombstone with roses resting on the ground that reads, “It wasn’t my first choice..” A larger caption reads, “Current public opinion.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A turkey depicted as a news anchor saying, “Employment figures for the holiday season came out today, and the news was not encouraging.” An infographic showing a panicked turkey with a 100% employment rate shows up  in the background behind the anchor.  
  • Cartoon 6: A cooked turkey that is half eaten thinking to itself while laying on a plate, “First it was freaky friday, then casual friday, and now black friday….I wish it was last friday!” 
  • Cartoon 7: Three split images of separate images depicting different scenes within Asheville, NC are displayed with the caption, Asheville, brought to you by the letter B.” Each image is titled with different words in reference to the action within the image, with “Biltmore” depicting tourist at the Biltmore Estate, “Build more” depicting a building of a house on a dangerous hill, and “Billed more” depicting a person being charged $1150 a month for renting a run down house.
  • Cartoon 8: Three split images of separate images depicting different scenes within Asheville, NC are displayed with the caption, “Asheville, brought to you by the letter L.” Each image is titled with different words in reference to the action within the image, with “Leafers” depicting people taking photos of trees, “Loafers” depicting a houseless population issue, and “Leavers” as a person leaving Asheville due to not finding a job or house.” 
  • Cartoon 9: An image depicting Barack Obama in a construction hat declaring, “Mr. Prime minister, move those settlements!!!” as groups of people from presumably Palestinian ethnic origins smile near him. A larger caption reads, “Extreme makeover, West Bank edition.” This is in reference to Barack Obama’s criticism of the Isreali settlements in the contested West Bank area of Israel where long standing conflicts over land claims have taken place. 
  • Cartoon 10: Barack Obama and an elephant push on opposite sides of the two letters, “BI” that is supposed to be part of the larger word “Partisan.” Obama is pushing in the direction of joining the letters to the bigger word and the elephant is pushing for the two letters to be separate. 
• Folder 8 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: Abraham Lincoln and Barack Obama semi-embrace each other by holding each other’s arm while Lincoln says to him, “Thank you, Mr. President. It’s the happiest one in a long time.” There is a calendar in the background that is set on February 12,  The birthday of Abraham Lincoln.  
  • Cartoon 2: A large, obese, and smoking man sits in a reclining chair watching TV thinking to himself, “I hope I don’t have to do anything different…” as the Tv displays Barack Obama speaking on the TV saying, “America’s healthcare system has to change!!” 
  • Cartoon 3: Barack Obama and Hu Jintao construct separate sides of the same bridge but Hu has a longer section of the bridge while Obama only has a quarter of his section built. Obama asks Hu, “I’m a little short. Can you loan me some more?” while Hu looks down upon the former president. 
  • Cartoon 4: Barack Obama speaking to Dmitry Medvedev, a Russian politician, with both of the men having their sleeves rolled up showing their exposed arms. Obama has a very small, atrophied arm while Medvedev has a normal sized arm. Obama is saying, “Check it out, Dmitry! Can you make one that small?” 
  • Cartoon 5: The outside of a bar or pub with the sign on the outside reading, “The Awkward Articulator.” There is a voice from inside the bar coming through the half opened door saying, “Hank! Jimmy! Let’s get stupid!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Rush Limbaugh playing limbo with a group of Elephants while saying, “Everybody Limbaugh!!” Barack Obama is depicted as being in a corner thinking to himself while looking at the scene, “How low can they go?” 
  • Cartoon 7: Barack Obama is displayed as group hugging a crowd of political leaders from South America and wearing a sombrero while saying, “Come on now, group hug for all my new amigos!” There is one other man to the side of the group with a suspicious look on their face who is presumably Fidel Castro. 
  • Cartoon 8: Two men walk away from a king’s throne with one headless and holding his own head on a silver platter. The other man says to the headless one, “Do you get to keep the silver platter sir Steele?” This is in reference to Michael Steele, an American conservative politician. 
  • Cartoon 9: Barack Obama depicted as a doctor talking to a patient in bed, hooked up to medical stabilizing machines saying to the person, “Instead of worrying about someone pulling your plug, I’d worry about someone yanking your chain.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Barack Obama depicted as being in a dark mass resembling a dark room, crouched over a small burning candle labeled, “economy” appearing to trying not to let the candle go out. 
• Folder 9 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: John Ensign, Mark Sanford, and Sarah Palin playing poker with Ensign saying to a crying Sandford, “Okay, I see your tearful revelation, and raise you two disastrous personal decisions.” Palin says to this, “I fold.” Larger caption reads, “Grand old poker.”  
  • Cartoon 2: A roller coaster line with kitchen and home appliances standing in line with a sign reading, “Cash for Appliances.” Another sign reads, “You must be this major to ride.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayer saying, “Judges are not robots, senators….I don’t know about anyone else…” to senators Lindsey Graham and Jeff Sessions who appear to be malfunctioning like robots. An elephant in the background with a button appears to be messing with it as the senators malfunction. 
  • Cartoon 4: Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei and former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad depicted as standing by a wall with Mahmoud using his finger to plug a hole in the wall to prevent a leak of some sort. At the same time a tidal wave that is labeled, “The will of the Iranian people” is about to pour over the wall. Ali is saying, “Do not worry. We have it all under complete control.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Supreme court justice Sonia Sotomayer who was the first ethnically latin justice to serve, dancing under a large section of text that reads, “!Confirmada!” In reference to her 2009 nomination by Barack Obama. 
  • Cartoon 6: A sign in the style of a roadside motel advertisement that reads, “Family values motel, right off the Appalachian Trail.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A postcard-like stylistic drawing depicting the state of Alaska and highlighting the actual shape of the state to indicate that it looks like the head of an elephant with the western islands looking like tusk. Captions reads, “Greetings from Alaska, where the elephant doesn’t have to look too hard to find the nuts.” The western islands have “Palin”, “Stevens”, and “Young.” captioned on them. 
  • Cartoon 8: Two images that look exactly the same of a radio channel host speaking into a microphone pointing and saying, “Abortion is murder! The murdered must pay!!” Over one image reads, “Right radio” and over the other copy of the image reads, “Wrong radio.”  
  • Cartoon 9: Barack Obama standing under a umbrella while it pours rains and is handing a same sex couple a very small umbrella incapable of covering either of them. The small umbrella is a labeled as, “Same sex benefits.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two men on a stage in front of a crowd with one clapping the other off the stage in appreciation. The man walking off the stage appears to look like George Bush holding a check as he moves. Larger caption reads, “Motivation accomplished!!” 
• Folder 10 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: Three split images of separate images depicting different scenes within Asheville, NC are displayed with the caption, “Asheville, brought to you by the letter N.” Each image is titled with different words in reference to the action within the image, with “Natives” showing a farming couple standing beside each other, “Newbies” showing two men chatting with one saying, “That’s not how we used to do it back home.” and “Nimbys” showing a man holding a sign that reads, “If you’re for it, I’m against it!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A tortoise with Barack Obama’s head saying to a hare, “Slow and steady, slow and steady…” The hare is labeled, “Voter expectations 2009” and is saying to Obama, “Come on, can’t you keep up?!” 
  • Cartoon 3: A confused Santa Claus walks back to his house after getting the mail from a elf, the mail says, “Not nice list, blacks, gays, jews.” The elf is saying, “I think it was supposed to go to South Carolina’s Nasty Politicians.” 
  • Cartoon 4: An elephant in football coach attire says to a football player, “Ok, Greg! Get in there and see what you can do!!” The smaller football player looks up nervously to the  very large football player in front of him with the, “11th” printed on the larger player’s jersey. Another player walks off in the distance with the last name, “Mumpower” on the back of the jersey
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama dressed in traditional fox catcher outfit pointing to a fox that is labeled with a similar logo to the popular news outlet Fox News. A dog under the pointing arm of Obama with a human head awaits a command as Obama says, “Watch it, pal-this dog will hunt!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two images with one showing Barack Obama standing with the Nobel Peace Prize he was awarded in 2009 around his neck with the caption above him reading, “For all that he might do…” The second image shows George Bush dodging a shoe being thrown at him in reference to an instance of a similar event that happened in an actual press conference, the caption above him reads, “For all that he did do…” 
  • Cartoon 7: Obama looking at a chart of the DOW which ranges from 8500-10,000 with a red arrow shooting above the 10,000 mark. He is asking the chart, “How now, down DOW?” 
  • Cartoon 8: Barack Obama talking to former prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu is saying to Obama, “You also want me to allow Goys in the military?” Goys is a slang term for a non-jewish person in Hebrew.
  • Cartoon 9: A close up of a torso which has a ring of explosives attached around it and on the sections of attached explosives there is the word, “Pakistan” spelled out. 
  • Cartoon 10: Two people sit on a bench with one looking at a newspaper box that reads, “Miller drops out of council race to help care for wife; “Family first”.” One person says, “Wow, a politician doing the right thing…” the other person replies, “Right…left…doing the best thing.”   
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: Three kids play in a sandbox with one asking the other, “Why in the world would you want to be a politician when you grow up?!” The smirking kid replies, “Health insurance.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Three separate images showing prerequisites to running for Asheville, NC city council. One shows a person burning money and the caption reading, “Declare yourself A “green” candidate, even if it’s just envy of how much the other candidates can afford to spend.” The second shows groceries and the caption reads, “Don’t just stop at “affordable housing”; people in Asheville also need affordable groceries, affordable groovy shoulder bags, and affordable double mocha lattes. The third shows Carl Mumpower, a prominent figure in Asheville, NC, as a superhero looking up at the letter M displayed in the sky, the caption reads, “Have a high opinion of yourself-the flood of grief, media mangling, & wholesale hating will either drive you to tears or float your boat.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A scene parodying the popular film, The Wizard of Oz, where there is the revealing of the infamous wizard in the plot. Yet, here it is Barack Obama being revealed with a large head saying, “I am the wise and powerful O!!” A smaller version of Obama sits off to the side near the control panel for the revealing charade and is thinking to himself, “And I am the worried and questioning O…” 
  • Cartoon 4: A dog with the head of Michael Steele sitting in the lap of an elephant who is also sitting in a chair. The dog is growling and the elephant is responding, “Quit yer yappin’!” 
  • Cartoon 5: A rhinoceros with a charging plug inserted into its behind and the other end into a wall outlet. A bigger caption reads, “Charging Rhinoceros.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A person texting on their phone and driving a car stops at a stop sign that reads, “STP.” Perhaps mocking the acronym usage popular with modern texting culture. 
  • Cartoon 7: A knight in full armor asks, “Sir Graham!! Where does goest thou?!” as he flies through the air next to a motorcycle after a dragon whipped them into mid air with its tail. The dragon has “129” inscribed on it’s rear with a border that resembles a highway sign. 
  • Cartoon 8: A trio of kids recite the beginning to the pledge of allegiance while a parent points and covers their own child’s eyes and screams, “Indoctrination!!!” The parent is wearing a hat that reads, “Dumba-.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man walking by a bookstore storefront window with a miniature Sarah Palin figure saying, “…It’s like that wreck on the highway that you can’t take your eyes off of…” in response to a review on Sarah Palin’s new memoir for sale in the store.
  • Cartoon 10: Barack Obama and another man standing at the edge of a line in the ground, look up at a rocket coming towards them with the man next to Obama asking, “How’s that line in the sand working for you?” The rocket is labeled, “Iran.” 
• Folder 12 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: Mummar Gaddafi and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad give a speech that is described as, “Rantrave” at a UN council meeting with a scowling Barack Obama off to the side. Two other men are quoted as saying, “Why isn’t the third tenor singing?” and “I don’t think he likes the song…” 
  • Cartoon 2: Three people standing around a dark hole resembling a bunker entrance with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s face poking out from the darkness surrounded by atoms. Mahmoud is saying, “But it has to be dark to grow mushrooms!” 
  • Cartoon 3: Barack Obama in a parodied scene of the punishment of the Greek mythological character Prometheus. The bird that is trying to eat the side of Barack Obama is labeled, “Vast right wing conspiracy.” Bill Clinton is off to the side of the scene in an olive leaf crown asking, “What did I tell you, prometheus?”  
  • Cartoon 4: The interior view of a plane, a focus is put on the scene outside the passenger window with a series of mountains underwater and the peaks poking out from the water forming an archipelago. The Caption reads, “Folks, if you’ll look down to the right, you will see the Mount Mitchell archipelago as we head into Asheville regional…” and “Man, it really has been raining…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama dancing with a figure labeled, “The world” under a banner that reads, “Welcome to the UN climate change cotillion.” Obama is asking, “How about if you lead for a while.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Barack Obama berating Mahmoud Ahmadinejad saying, “Don’t try to change the subject-we’re talking about you.” as Obama stands in front of nuclear missiles labeled, “USA.” Mahmoud is standing with a single rocket in hand looking up at Obama.  
  • Cartoon 7: A series of self portraits and figure drawings of David Cohen displaying the sentiment that even though he has lived in Asheville, NC for over 40 years and has lived in the area longer than many natives, he perhaps does not feel like other people consider him a native. 
  • Cartoon 8: A donkey taps an elephant on the shoulder asking, “Do you see that ugly head rising up over there?” as they point to a decapitated head of a demon-like figure that is labeled, “Racism.” The elephant is ignoring the donkey saying, “You lie!!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man in a construction helmet constructs a fence around Pack Square Park in Asheville, NC and a family approaches him saying, “The critics were right. We’re moving in and taking over.” A larger caption reads, “The parkless.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Barack Obama dressed as a farmer protecting a chicken coop with chickens labeled as, “Univision, ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN” from a fox labeled, “Fox.” The fox has a sly expression and Obama is saying, “You’re kidding right?” 
• Folder 13 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A brother apologies to his sister saying, “I’m sorry that you interpreted me calling you a boogerhead as a sign of disrespect.” The siblings mother berates the boy saying, “A real apology mister, not a Washington one!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A car belonging to Mark Sanford drives in front of what is presumably the South Carolinian state capitol building which has a flag on the flagpole outside that says, “You Lie.” Mark is saying, “Forget about the Confederate flag; we gotta get rid of that other one!” 
  • Cartoon 3: Barack Obama swimming in a body of water with the caption, “President chooses prudence over convenience in return from vacation.” 
  • Cartoon 4: An advertisement for an action figure who is a “Power restoration man” and dressed in a power line repairman outfit. Text in the bottom right of the card reads, “I don’t want a toy transformer, I want a working transformer!” 
  • Cartoon 5: A principal stands over a sleeping student in class watching a TV with Barack Obama displayed on it. The principal says, “This is totally inappropriate!” as a teacher at a desk responds, “Encouraging students to stay in school and excel…the nerve of that guy…!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man and a woman are talking to each other with the man saying, “We don’t want any indoctrinating going on in our schools.” The woman adds, “Unless we approve of it.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two figures presumably relating to U.S politics are looking at a car after a mechanic has recently fixed it up with the caption, “Pimp my auto task force.” Another character in the scene also says, “Check it out, dudes, two driver seats!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A series of search engine results that are related to celebrities who have died or have cheated death including Fidel Castro and Michael Jackson. Sarah Palin is included with the caption, “…death panel to decide end-of-career options.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A cartoon showing a variety of different “housing” options for Asheville, NC residents amidst rising housing prices including a tree house, a house of cards, and a bird house. The larger caption reads, “Affordable housing, Asheville 2009.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A news reporter talking into the camera saying, “Estimating crowd size is such an inexact science,Ken; if we’re counting wingnuts and idiots, I guess two.” Two protesters are behind the reporter with signs tha read, “Obama is the antichrist” and “Where is the birth certificate.” 
• Folder 14 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A security or secret service agent points to a jet that is taking off and has the South Carolina flag displayed on its tail and asks a nearby woman, “Ma’am where is the governor going now?” The woman responds, “The mailbox.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A lawyer pleading a case to a judge in court, defending his client who is Adolf Hitler. The lawyer is saying, “Your honor, my client would like to state that he is in no way connected to the town hall shouters, and in fact, did not give them permission to use the terms “nazi”, “Hitler”, or “swastika.” “We would like to sue for copyright infringement.” The judge is thinking to themselves, “Only in America…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A doctor presenting a freshly born baby to a presumably embarrassed politician John Edwards saying, “Congratulations, Mr. Edwards! It’s the end of your credibility!” This is in reference to a 2008 scandal of John Edwards who was convicted on federal charges involving trying to cover up an extramarital affair. 
  • Cartoon 4: A figure who is presumably a political figure of either local or national prominence taking a phone call that is depicted as being very loud and words coming from the other side of the figure’s head saying, “Socialism” and “Singlepayer.” The figure is thinking to himself, “At least I can’t get shot over the phone…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama in a van labeled, “Health care reform.” reversing from a roadblock that has signs reading, “Public option” and “Stop.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two women walking past a person holding a AR-15 style rifle with one of the women saying, “Wow, I thought debate club was just for dweebs…” The other woman replies, “Nothing says “con” like an AR-15.” The person holding the rifle is thinking to themselves, “Revenge of the nerds.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A small mouse that is labeled, “U.S.” standing on a very big block of Swiss cheese that is labeled, “Swiss bank secrecy.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A image of famous American football player Brett Farve in football gear and viking helmet with a man and child talking behind him. The child asks the man, “Is that the fat lady everybody keeps talking about?” with the man responding, “I wouldn’t bet on it.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two men sit at a stand that has a sign above it that reads, “NRCC Job Fair, Defeat Heath in 2010!” hand out pieces of paper to a lined up crowd. A larger caption reads, “We’ll be going in and listening, looking for some fresh faces, who can find some solutions..” 
  • Cartoon 10: A little girl is having a tea party with a toy bear and another doll while a group of protesters advocating for an agenda against Obama and socialistic topics marches around them. The little girl says to the bear and doll, “Let’s not invite them next time…” 
• Folder 15 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A man smokes in a grass field next to a sign reading, “Leaving Buncombe County.” and a lady getting out of a car on a road. The man is saying to the woman, “I guess we gotta figure in travel time for smoke breaks now.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A map of North America with text coming from Mexico saying, “Hey amigo, whattya want? I got cocaine, marijuana, heroin….? There is text coming from Canada saying, “Eh, friend, whattya want? I got generics, deep discounts on prescriptions..” The U.S. is displayed with text coming from it reading, “I think I want an intervention.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Barack Obama displayed as in overalls with a grease/oil can looking at squeaking and old wheels on a wagon. The wheels are labeled, “Birthers”, “Tea party shout downs”, and “Right wing media.” Obama is thinking to himself, “It’s hard to decide which one is the squeakist…” 
  • Cartoon 4: Chief Michell Hicks displayed as saying, “If we have further complaints about PETA coming to the boundary, I am going to ask that you guys be banned.” A bear is sitting next to Hicks thinking to itself, “…Some grass, and a couple of trees would be nice…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama and Uncle Sam white water rafting in a boat that is labeled, “Recovery tours.” Uncle Sam looks very panicked while Obama has a paddle and is saying, “Hang on back there! We’re just getting started!!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A book titled as, “Pampas Passion” and displaying two lovers embracing each other in a fantastical setting on the cover of the book. A review displayed as reading, “I can’t stop talking about it! -Mark Sanford.” A larger caption reads, “Coming soon…” 
  • Cartoon 7: A bumper sticker displayed as reading, “OBNC” with an off scene voice asking, “Outer Banks?” and another voice responding, “Obese.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Al Franken displayed as using a popular fair game using a hammer to hit mechanism that will lift a weight in order to hit a bell, measuring your level of strength. The scale is displayed as reading, “Super majority 60” and the bell is displayed as reading, “Senate.” Al Franken hits the bell referencing when Al Franken was elected to the senate, democrats reached a super majority and was now able to override any filibuster efforts within the senate voting. 
  • Cartoon 9: Uncle Sam standing next to barrels of oil and seemingly just leaving the country of Iraq and opening a door into the country of Afghanistan while saying, “Nah, don’t worry, I’m good! I can find my way!” 
  • Cartoon 10: Manuel Zelaya standing in the airport terminal in pajamas next to a sign that indicates that he has just landed in Costa Rica. Zelaya is thinking to himself, “This is the weirdest dream I have ever had!” 

Box 7:

• Folder 1 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: former politician Kay Hagan standing at a fork in a road  with a sign in front of her reading, “Single payer option” pointing to the left and another sign reading, “Single term” pointing to the right. A larger caption reads, “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao Tzu.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two adolescents sit at a bus stop with one saying, “They finally voted to give us a comprehensive sex education class, including abstinence, and they laid off the teacher!” The other adolescent replies, “Oh well, back to the playground.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A image of the Sphinx in Egypt but instead of the originally designed portrait it is instead Barack Obama’s face as the portrait. A man at the statue’s feet says, “Ich bin ein Egyptian eh sir?” 
  • Cartoon 4:Two men stand at the front of a line for a shelter that is about to open with one of the men saying, “I forget…is this the line for the shelter, the jobs, or that (expletive) toy my kid has to have?!” There is a line of more rugged and dirty looking people behind the two men as well. 
  • Cartoon 5: A portrait of Mark Sanford with a list of tips for safe hiking next to the portrait. The tips include, “Turn off your cell phone…”, “Don’t tell anyone where you are going…”, and “Don’t worry about what you’re leaving behind; it will take care of itself!!” Further captions at the bottom read, “And if anyone asks-you are “hiking the Appalachian Trail!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A missile from North Korea flying through a giant flower garland in the sky with the caption reading, “Aloha from Hawaii.”  
  • Cartoon 7: A black bear married couple talk to each other with the wife saying, “Alright, hon-I’m taking the cubs with me; we’ll knock over some cans, swat a few people, and give you some Father’s Day alone time.” The husband replies while sitting in a reclining chair, “Thanks, sugar bear, you’re the best.” 
  • Cartoon 8: An elephant in Shakespearean garb holding a cell phone thinking to themselves, “To tweet, or not to tweet, that is the question.” Another elephant in the background holds a sign reading, “Not! Is the answer!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A highway sign reading, “Future North Carolina 26” with a damaged piece  of paper taped to the bottom of the sign reading, “Maybe by 2026!!!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A U.S. drill sergeant asking a soldier if “they are happy” in one scene and in another scene the soldier is depicted as saying nothing to the question. Barack Obama is walking away from the two with a smug look saying, “Don’t change.” Larger captions over the scenes read, “Don’t ask…don’t tell…don’t change.” Referencing the popular issue of mental health issues and their prominence in the U.S. military
• Folder 2 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A person looking up at the sky with recently written text sky drawn in the air by a plane depicted as reading, “Heath, R U running?” The person appears disturbed by the image.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man wearing a t-shirt reading, “WNC” points outside a window at a child wearing a sash reading, “2010” symbolizing an incoming new year. The man says, “Go away!!! I opened the door last year and look what happened!” and the baby responds, “But it’ll be better! (I hope..) 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men drive in a car that indicates they have recently been married but a sign on the back of the car reads, “Looking to get married.” They drive past a sign that indicates they have just entered the state of New Hampshire and an old man stands by the sign saying, “Ayuh, fellas, you can get theah from heah.” A chapel is seen in the background of the scene as well. 
  • Cartoon 4: A close up of a doorstep to a home with the door opening and a cat sitting on the doorstep licking its paw. A human tongue sits detached from the originating person and a voice is depicted as saying, “Honey, he’s brought us another tongue…” 
  • Cartoon 5: A split image with similar images, one scene is a group of fists thrusting in the air gripping a piece  of paper reading, “Down with the tyrants” and quote saying, “The pen is mightier than the sword- Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)” The other image is the same except of a piece  of paper, all the fists are now holding phones and the quote now reads, “The PDA is mightier than the sword- Iran (2009)” 
  • Cartoon 6: Former American football player Michael Vick depicted as Snoopy from the popular American TV cartoon “The Peanuts.” He is resting on a dog house with a caption beside the scene reading, “Vick to spend two months under house arrest.” This is in reference to a scandal Vick was involved in concerning an organized dog fighting ring.
  • Cartoon 7: A student holds his uncle’s hands as they stand at the front of his class as the teacher looks on at the two. The boy’s uncle’s is dressed in formal military dress and on the chalkboard behind them has “Today: Ask ‘n’ tell” written on them. The boy is saying to the teacher, “This is my uncle James. He is a decorated war hero fought in Iraq. …oh, and he’s gay…” 
  • Cartoon 8: Four groups of portraits of different people with three groups being dual portraits and the other being one of a single person who is presumably a local politician labeled, “Self-important, grandstanding politicians.” The other groups are labeled as, “Inbred, close minded ‘hillbillies’’’ with the people dressed as farmers, “Job-sucking, America-destroying, illegal aliens.” with the people displayed as looking foreign, and “Tattooed, food stamp abusing, trust fund slackers” with the people looking very dirty and rugged.” The larger caption at the top reads, “WNC stereotypes, part one of a series.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A parody of the famous painting “The Birth of Venus” by Sandro Botticelli with a local politician taking the place of Venus. A scroll with text resides to the side of the image and reads, “When an irritant gets lodged in an oyster, it sometimes turns into a lustrous pearl…not every time…” The oyster shell the figure is standing in is labeled, “City council.”  
  • Cartoon 10: A hand holding a cellphone with text displayed on the phone reading, “Txt msg from C.Bothwell: Hard to believe! City Council! OYG!!!” An off voice asks, “OYG?” Another voice replies, “Oh your god.” 
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A figure resembling a stereotypical neo-nazi in appearance stares at a giant bon fire being fanned by a whirling fan labeled, “Right wing media.” The figure is uttering, “…ooooh…..pretty..” 
  • Cartoon 2: A disgruntled Barack Obama holds a newspaper and orders two cats who are labeled, “Bank fat cats” off a reclining chair. The cats respond, “Sez who?” 
  • Cartoon 3: A man stands facing the viewer with a t-shirt that has another man screaming, “You Lie!” on it as two men talk behind him. One man says, “Joe Wilson sent them out as Christmas presents to every member of congress.” with the other man replying and asking, “Do you think Heath appreciates the irony?” 
  • Cartoon 4: A large, winding road labeled “Broadband” next to a sign pointing down the road reading, “Future.” A caption at the top reads, “The new Buncombe turnpike.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A golf tournament reporter is depicted as reporting on a car crash outside of a home with a van having driven into a palm tree. The reporter is saying back to the other off screen newscasters, “That’s right, Jim, it seems that Tiger is still having a little bit of difficulty with his drives.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A giant hand using a card that reads, “Food Stamps” to cut a map of the U.S. in half. “Red states”, “Blue states”, “Democrats”, and “Republicans” are displayed as text on the map and also being split as the card runs horizontally.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A dove sits between WW1 German soldiers helmet and a WW1 British soldiers helmet with a caption above it reading, “We can hardly believe we have been firing at them for the last week or two–it all seems so strange”. —Unknown British Soldier.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A caption reads, “Q: How can the U.S. afford a 30,000 troop surge in Afghanistan?” and an image of a poppy plant with a band reading, “Plus fed. tax”  around the stem of it sits beside it. Another caption under the plant reads, “Medical opium.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A wreath with flowers rests in the center of the card with a sash that reads, “Never forget.” A larger caption at the top reads, “A day that will live in infamy…” This is in reference to the attacks on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by Japanese forces on December 7th,  1941. 
  • Cartoon 10: A married couple talk to each other presumably while at Augusta Golf Course with the husband asking, “You know how, whenever Tiger is putting, some moron yells out, “Get in the hole!”…? The wife responds, “Don’t go there, Ed…” 
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A staff of a business or retail store line up like soldiers in formation yelling, “Sir, happy holidays, sir!!” as their boss walks in front of them saying, “I can’t hear you!!” A piece of paper on the floor reads, “Memo to staff: war on Christmas.” A larger caption on top reads, “More troops to the front…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A car parked beside a building with a large window in front which has the text, “United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009” printed on it. The car has “Official delegate” also printed on it with a diplomatic hood flag that reads, “Lipservistan.” 
  • Cartoon 3: famous golfer Tiger Woods and a house labeled, “The cliffs” falling off of a large cliff with a golf bag following behind in descent. Larger caption reads, “Get in the hole!!” 
  • Cartoon 4: Four separate images under the larger caption, “Winter storm survival kit” including groceries, toilet paper, fuel/oil, and faith in the weatherman with a weather man depicted giving the wrong weather forecast. 
  • Cartoon 5 : A depiction of former vice president Dick Cheney’s head as a jack in the box toy decorated like a jester saying, “Aid and comfort to the enemy!”, “Waaaah…”, “Weakness!”, and “Waaaah…” A larger caption reads, “Pop goes the weasel.” 
  • Cartoon 6 : A group of people take a tour bus around a neighborhood named, “Balsam Crest Villas” with a larger caption reading, “What to do with WNC’s glut of unsold & unbuilt, overpriced condo castle’s…” Another sign in the bottom right reads, “All proceeds to fund affordable housing!!” 
  • Cartoon 7: Barack Obama sitting at a desk under a sign that reads, “Lost and Found Dept.” reading a piece  of paper to former president George Bush and former vice president Dick Cheney saying, “Gentlemen, you’re in luck! Someone just turned in your 22 million lost emails!” The two men seem disturbed or scared
  • Cartoon 8: Joe Leiberman is seen under a dark rain cloud labeled, “Filibuster threat” walking towards the viewer with two men talking in the background. One of the men is saying, “Joe the bummer.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A person sits upright in a bed holding the covers up to their face, appearing disturbed. A voice from the next room says to them, “If you don’t settle down and go to sleep, I’m gonna send in the atheist!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A person holds onto a baby taking their first steps, the smiling child’s diaper is labeled, “Health care reform 2009.” A larger caption off to the side reads, “Baby’s first steps.”
• Folder 5 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: Uncle Sam laying in a reclining chair asking Barack Obama, who is dressed like a handyman holding tools, “Hey, is everything fixed yet?!’ 
  • Cartoon 2: A family of snowmen look sadly into the window of a home with a human family celebrating the holidays together. A large caption reads, “Don’t forget the houselessat this time of year…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A top down view of a toilet with a dead fish within it and a larger caption reading, “Only dead fish go with the flow…- Sarah Palin.” Two off-scene voices are saying, “Politically speaking, I’d say it’s time to flush” with the other responding, “You betcha!” 
  • Cartoon 4: A child holds a tray with a chocolate salad on it with an excited expression on their face with a larger caption reading, “School lunches-finding the balance between what kids want to eat and what they should eat.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man with a watering can labeled, “2010 N.C. budget” pours water on a family of a man, woman, and child who are all buried in the dirt up to their heads. Water is barely coming out of the can and a sign reading, “The future” is in the ground beside the family.
  • Cartoon 6: A rear perspective of a person driving a car but the person is very heavy set and the car is leaning to one side, driving on only two wheels. A bumper sticker is zoomed in on with the text on the sticker reading, “OBNC, Obese North Carolina.”
  • Cartoon 7: An elephant kneeled down in prayer in a field of giant statues that are all the same size and depiction of a portrait of Ronald Reagan. A larger caption reads, “He prayed for wisdom and guidance every day, but the Ancient Ones remained silent.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Barack Obama leading Uncle Sam and another woman through the dark of night while Obama is saying, “C’mon-I see a light up ahead!” The light is an elephant holding a torch with what appears to be Rush Limbaugh and another figure with weapons charging towards Obama’s group.
  • Cartoon 9: Rush Limbaugh is seen holding Dick Cheney by a collar who is also in a lit cannon about to be shot out of it. Cheney appears like a rabid dog with Limbaugh smiling saying, “Get ‘em boy..” A large caption reads, “The not so loose cannon.” 
  • Cartoon 10:A large caption reads, “Current Washington acronyms” as there are four separate acronyms with their definitions explained underneath them such as “POTUS”, “FLOTUS”, “SCOTUS”, and “SCROTUS.” “SCROTUS” stands for swiftly collapsing Republicans of the United States. An elephant stands next to a chart with a descending arrow and is labeled, “Willing to be labeled Republican” on the board holding the chart.
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A elderly man drives a car with the viewer having a front perspective of the scene and the top of the windshield having “FEAR” printed on it. 
  • Cartoon 2: A miniature man dressed very formally holding a stick with a hand on the end of it trying to slap the giant wrist and hand of Kim Jong-il. The man is labeled as, “UN” and is in reference to the hesitant nature in which the UN has punished North Korea for overstepping international political boundaries. 
  • Cartoon 3: A large caption reads, “What to look for in a Supreme Court nominee- with a smaller series of text reading, “Someone with a legal background, a super sharp intellect, someone knowledgeable about the Constitution and all of its complexities, and, of course, someone who represents the rich diversity of the United States.” Obama is standing next to the text and is saying, “Um..check back with me in about eight years.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man in a suit stands at a bus stop with a piece  of paper in hand and says, “Great!! The city spends all this money to convince me to ride the bus, and then they go and cancel my route!!” A houselessman with a dog sits on the bus stop bench and replies, “Bummer, dude…but you can’t stay here…this is my crib now.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Kim Jong-il in a beauty pageant-like dress with a sash that reads, “Ms. Isle.” Kim is saying into a microphone, “I think, in my country, in my family, I think that I believe in having nuclear weapons should be between me, myself, and I-no offense to anybody out there but that’s how I was raised.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Phil Spector behind bars in jail looking at the viewer with a caption reading, “Phil Spector trades in the “Wall of sound” for some “Sound walls”… This is in reference to the former American music producer being convicted of murder in the 2000’s
  • Cartoon 7: A line of people holding signs in reference to protesting abortion with the line acting like a gradient of opinions on the matter in accordance to how extreme they are. With the left most person simply voicing a mild opinion and the right most person holding a gun and a sign reading, “Kill! Kill! Kill!
  • Cartoon 8: A card with “Cohen” written largely on it with a piece of paper that has been plastered on the original card. The piece  of paper reads, “David Cohen is the editorial cartoonist for the Asheville Citizen-Times, and has been drawing cartoons about Asheville, WNC, and anything else that he thinks is funny for the last 40 years. He is a member of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonist (www.editorialcartoonist.com) , and had three cartoons chosen for the Pelicans Press’s Best Editorial Cartoons of 2009. 
  • Cartoon 9: The great wall of China with a flag on one side saying, “Climate pact verification” and on the other side which is China there is a voice coming from over the wall saying, “You go away now. We’re closed!” A larger caption reads, “The great stonewall of China.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Barack Obama having a conversation with two other African Americans. One man is saying to Obama, “Mr. President, we don’t feel that you are doing enough to help black Americans.” Obama responds, “Like the way George W. Bush helped white Americans?” A woman responds to Obama, “..Um…..yeah..we’re good.”
• Folder 7 (dated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: Two people have drinks and talk while a dog sleeps nearby the two. One person looking at the dog says, “Yeah, before I could assume ownership I had to profess a belief in almighty dog.” The dog has a collar pendant that says, “HK.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A larger caption reads, “Asheville reacts to the downtown master plan..” with three people expressing their opinion on the matter. With one lady saying, “The name is a little too patriarchal for me.” One man said, “If you’re for it, I’m against it!” The final man says, “It makes too much sense. It will never pass.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A person in a porcupine costume points to two men walking together and says, “You two!! You’re scaring the tourist, you smell terrible, and you’re smoking cigarettes. Out of the park!!” A larger caption says, “Pritchard Park adopts the “Disneyland” model…” 
  • Cartoon 4:Three men sit and stand near a couch watching TV that is displaying former governors Mark Sanford of South Carolina and Sarah Palin of Alaska. The men are criticizing the governors in varying ways such as saying the pair of governors have “GMS” or “Governor meltdown syndrome” due to the public affairs both governors have been a part of.  
• Folder 8 (undated): Cartoons from 2009
  • Cartoon 1: A adolescent eats bowl of cereal with the box nearby titled, “Grains ‘n’ Stuf, whole flakes.” The adolescent says to the viewer, “I really only like Cocoa Crunch.” A larger caption reads, “Cereal monogamy.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man stares at a piece  of paper with the entire english alphabet displayed on it with the exception of the letter M. The man is thinking to himself, “Soething is issing…” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two people sit in a car with the driver looking like David Cohen himself. The person in the passenger seat reads a book and says to the driver, “This is the good kind of texting and driving right?” 
  • Cartoon 4: A baby in a diaper with a sash presumably reading with the new incoming year at the time, 2010 looks over a bridge edge in a surprised expression while holding a paper reading, “Take this job and love it.” A sash reading the current year at the time being 2009 and a scythe symbolizing death’s presence in the scene is situated to the right of the baby.
• Folder 9 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Two men in suits, sunglasses, and earpieces
  •  stand over a man in handcuffs sitting at a desk who is clearly arrested. One man in a suit says, “You have the right……just not right now.” A larger caption reads, “New, improved Miranda warning.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A newt with the head of an elderly man or politician lying on an American flag. The man is saying, “Technically, I’m a newt, not a chameleon, but I can change wives, biography, or positions to match anything!” 
  • Cartoon 3: A large caption reads, “Enduring myths” with three separate images showing Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy, and a man speaking at a podium complaining and saying, “Steep slopes, nimby, affordable, too big” and overall screaming. A caption under the man at the podium reads, “Planning & zoning mind can be changed.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A loaf of moldy bread in plastic wrapping with the wrapping reading, “GOP Bakery, Pledge to America.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama dragging a giant cross across a pathway in ragged clothing and is in discomfort. He thinks to himself, “Jeez-what do I have to do to convince these people?!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A giant monkey stares at a startled woman and says to her, “So, Chrisitine,…when are you going to evolve into a human?” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man swinging on a rope into a tree labeled, “State Board of Elections.” The man is holding a gun as well and is shooting himself in the foot. A larger caption reads, “Chad, Chad, Chad of the jungle, watch out for that tree!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man in a suit shying away from the viewer with his hand partially covering his face. Captions around the man read, “Is that senator Republican?!” and “Don’t ask, don’t tell.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Barack Obama pushing a large boulder up a hill labeled, “war, recession, terrorism, jobs, and government gridlock” and an elephant clinging to his ankle weighing him down. Obama is saying, “Go figure…I actually wanted this job…” 
  • Cartoon 10: A large caption reads, “Which circle best represents Asheville?” with three circles with their respective captions underneath. One circle represents the Old Asheville Speedway with its caption reading, “driving around in a circle.” The second circle represents Pritchard Park with its caption reading, “Playing drums in a circle.” The third circle represents the city hall of Asheville, NC and its caption reads, “Arguing in a circle.”
• Folder 10 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A elderly man’s head on the body of a small dog who is also on a leash, the man is barking at the moon and stars. 
  • Cartoon 2: Local Asheville, NC politician Bill Russell holding signs that have his name printed on them. Bill is saying, “That’s R-U-S-S-E-L-L, little r, big u.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Dick Cheney looking into a clothes drawer at home and specifically at a t-shirt that says, “Halliburton, too big to jail!” This is in reference to the scandal involving the Halliburton company and Dick Cheney’s history of being the company’s chairman.
  • Cartoon 4: A figure resembling the Christian form of God putting oil in their car over the Persian Gulf on their car and spilling oil on the region and people located within it. A larger caption reads, “Tex: gov. Rick Perry R: Gulf oil spill possibly an “act of God…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford holding up a newspaper that reads, “SC governor: not guilty.” A larger caption reads, “Sanford doesn’t have to trade “Soulmate” for “Cellmate.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Sarah Palin and a man have a discussion with the man thanking Palin saying, “Thank you for your appearance today at our rally for free speech!” Palin responds as she grabs a check from the man saying, “Who said speech was free?” 
  • Cartoon 7: A rock bolt commonly used to stabilize rock and prevent rock slides or movement within mines is in the center of the card with a larger caption reading, “The thin silver line.” A smaller caption under the bolt reads, “Between business as usual and economic chaos.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two men stand on the Persian gulf with one lighting a match and throwing it onto a pit of oil on the gulf. The pit erupts and the other man says, “Oh, yeah, that was a good idea.”  
  • Cartoon 9: A secret service member tells Obama, “Excuse me, sir…you have a little something on your face…” as he gives a speech and has a black substance on his face that is labeled, “Gulf spill.” A sign in front of the podium reads, “New offshore drilling policy.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A fox representing the popular news outlet, FOX news stands next to a man in colonial garb that represents the conservative political movement started in 2009 known as the tea party in the United States. In the background there is a goose who is stylized to look like it has the head of Sarah Palin and it is sitting on a money symbol. The fox is saying to the man, “The longer we keep her alive, the more golden eggs we get.” 
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Two images with one being a asian man shrugging towards the viewer and a caption above him reading, “If he’s yellow, could be mellow-.” The other image shows an African American man being arrested by a Arizona state police officer with the caption reading, “If he’s brown, pat him down.” A larger  caption above both images reads, “New Arizona motto.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A smiling Barack Obama throwing money into a hole which has Uncle Sam trapped within it. Uncle Sam is saying to Obama, “How about a ladder?” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two images with one being a man at the beach digging sand out of his swim trunks and the other image being a man on a mountain peak covered in pollen. A caption reads, “Don’t you just love spring?” 
  • Cartoon 4: Barack Obama dressed as an airline pilot looking up at an erupting volcano whose ash cloud is labeled, “Government approval ratings.” Obama is displayed as thinking, “I don’t know about flying through this stuff.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two hotel workers stand beside each other while one talks on the phone with a patron and the other is seen writing. The one on the phone says, “Yessir, three cases of our “cheap North Carolina Cigarettes”.” The other worker replies asking, “The presidential suite?” 
  • Cartoon 6: A bus is seen crashed on the sidewalk in front of a variety of businesses and stopped on a newspaper dispensing box. A man viewing the scene is thinking to himself, “What else are they going to put on the side of a bus?!” 
  • Cartoon 7: Barack Obama in a scientific lab coat dipping a tiny person into a glass container which is labeled, “Supreme Court litmus test.” Obama is depicted as saying, “I’m looking for someone who won’t turn blue or red.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A field of trash, smoke/smog, and a dead frog with a larger caption reading, “Earth Day, after.” Referencing the hypocrisy that is associated with environmental efforts. 
  • Cartoon 9: Two billy goats stand with hats on and tea bags under the hat (Representing the tea party movement started in 2009 from conservative groups in U.S. politics) look at a bridge which has two trolls labeled, “Liberals” and “Fox” underneath them. One of the goats says to the other, “Watch out for all the trolls, billy.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Barack Obama speaking at a podium saying, “The dots stop with me.” In the background there are two dots or spheres that are labeled, “Global terror” and “Al-Qaeda.” 
• Folder 12 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Rush Limbaugh and former evangelical figure Pat Robertson walking side beside with both wearing a “I’m with stupid” t-shirt with arrows pointing to each other. This is in possible reference to the duo’s comments on the recent earthquake in Haiti at this time and relief efforts surrounding the event. 
  • Cartoon 2: An advertisement for a portable and pop-up parking spot called, “U.M.P.S” The acronym stands for “ultimate mobility parking space.” The cartoon is criticizing the lack of available vehicle parking in downtown Asheville, NC. 
  • Cartoon 3: A presumable political figure looks at the viewer while saying, “I could have used a better choice of words.” Martin Luther King Jr. is in the background and is thinking to himself, “Forget the words. Choose the right actions.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A depiction of presumably David Gantt who was formerly on the Asheville, NC board of commissioners saying into a microphone, “In the spirit of diversity, inclusiveness, and fair play, tonight’s invocation will be given by…” A tribes person in full ceremonial attire stands beside Gantt by a podium with a chicken on a leash beside the tribes person. 
  • Cartoon 5: A diorama of Asheville, NC with arms and legs asking a elderly couple of a man and woman, “Excuse me sir, let me ask you a question. I’m trying to get back to economic viability, and I’m five million dollars short. Anything you can spare would be appreciated.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Sarah Palin walking up a ascending line commonly seen in statistical charts with words below the line acting as a gradient to influential positions of power with “Governor” being the least and “mistress of the universe” being the most. The positions in between are “V.P. candidate”, “Fox news commentator”, and “President of the United States.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two men in suits walking to a court house who are presumably lawyers with one asking the other, “Why are you for gay marrige?” The other man responds while rubbing his fingers together and saying, “Gay divorce.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A depiction of the Google internet engine search bar with, “dissident voices in China” typed into the search bar. There is also another button parodying the “I’m feeling lucky” feature and is instead replaced with, “I’m feeling censored.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A large caption reads, “Souvenirs from Hawaii” with four other images on the card as well. They include a coconut, lei, grass skirt, and a man with a black eye but the black eye is labeled, “Public scrutiny.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A large caption reads, “Perspective drawing” as the word “Haiti” is written very largely with a small pile of names of other countries and topics off to the side in a much smaller size. The smaller pile reads, “Hill of beans, post-theism, Hawaiian junkets, scraped sidewalks.” 
• Folder 13 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A flight attendant sliding down an escape chute of a landed airplane out of the side door. The flight attendant is cheering and looking at other people nearby who are holding out applications towards the airplane, seemingly applying for the job the flight attendant just quit. This is in reference to Steven Slater, a JetBlue flight attendant who quit their job by sliding down the aircraft’s escape chute after being abused by a passenger.
  • Cartoon 2: A man lying in a sun tanning chair dozing off and holding a large sum of money in his left hand. The man is thinking to himself, “…not going away……fire your best shot…” A quote by Barack Obama above the man reads, “I’m sure that what he wants is to be able to end his career with dignity.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A pair of mangled glasses with a hole through the right lens sits with a tag attached to it reading, “International assistance mission eye clinic, Afghanistan.” A larger caption reads above the glasses, “…An eye for an eye, and the whole world would be blind. -Kahlil Gibran.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man sitting in a chair next to his dog while wearing a t-shirt that says, “no mosque” and him telling his dog to, “git em boy.” A larger caption reads, “Latest weapon in the war on (the word muslims is crossed out but still clearly seen) terrorists.”  
  • Cartoon 5: A tombstone with the inscription, “Asheville pedestrian” and flowers on the grave. A larger caption reads, “Where the sidewalk ends, with apologies to Shed Silverstein…”  
  • Cartoon 6: A wedding cake but instead of a decorative topper on the cake it is the Supreme Court and all the justices elected in 2010 acting as the topper. Two men stand in front of the cake looking at each other smiling. A larger caption reads, “We will pronounce you…” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two men depicted with one lying down on the ground and another man scratching his head standing in confusion. A larger caption reads, “Sprawl or density, which way, Asheville?” 
  • Cartoon 8: Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell dressed in a navy soldier’s white formal uniform while tossing what is supposed to be an anchor but is actually a darker skinned baby of unclear ethnicity. McConnell is saying, “Anchors away!!” 
  • Cartoon 9: Saint Peter stands guard at heaven’s gates with a book and a scale that is judging  former politician John McCain. On one side of the scale it has, “Distinguished career war hero” and on the other side it has a portrait of Sarah Palin which is much heavier. Saint Peter is saying, “It’s not looking very good, John.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A donkey in handyman attire paints the glass on an office door with it reading, “GOP and tea.” An elephant is peeking out from the door with a scowl on its face looking at the donkey
• Folder 14 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Two people play musical chairs, one man is labeled, “Fox” and the other, “NPR.” The chair they are waiting to take from each other is labeled, “briefing room.”
  • Cartoon 2: Two scenes of a houseless man and his dog with the first scene being the man looking at a newspaper dispenser with the paper reading, “Developers seek tax subsidies for “affordable housing”.” In the next scene he is standing by a surprised man reading a paper given to him by the houseless man saying, “A tax bill for “affordable panhandling”?!! 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men, one being elderly and white labeled as “Ramsey” and saying, “It’s not a religion; it’s a cult!!” The other man is in superhero attire and striking a superhero pose and is depicted as black. He is holding a flag that reads, “super action Greene.” A much larger caption reads, “The south will rise again.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man and woman who are depicted as missionaries talk to a crowd of people who are protesting and holding up signs against the creation of new mosques and the Islamic faith as a whole. The couple is saying, “We would love to join your protest, but we’re on our way to another country to convert non-believers.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A wine bottle labeled, “Le Tour de afghan, 2010” leaks liquid with the puddle being labeled as, “Wikileaks.” A larger caption reads, “*sniff* *sniff* Yuck! I believe that wine has turned!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two scenes of two men talking while moving objects and walking. In the first scene one man is grabbing a box saying, “it’s hard to change a belief I’ve had all of my life”, the other man responds, “And your parents, and their parents.” In the last scene the man who speaks first from the last scene says, “I don’t think I can drink unsweetened tea!”
  • Cartoon 7: A series of stands resembling those seen at fairs or carnivals are depicted in a row with one advertising funnel cakes, another turkey legs, and finally one showing sunburnt and exhausted volunteers for the event. A larger caption reads, “Fried @ Bele Chere.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man lifts the lid off of an empty tea pot labeled, “Tea Party Caucus” on a stove burner which is labeled, “media scrutiny.” A caption reads, “I think you’re supposed to have something in it before you put it on the fire…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A giant column stands with a statue of two letters, “BP” resting on top of it. The letters are covered in oil from a flock of overhead birds who are also covered in oil but it is falling on the letter. Two people look up at the scene with disturbed expressions. This is in reference to the Deep Horizon Oil Spill of 2010. 
  • Cartoon 10: Former United States Representative and American college football player Heath Shuler dressed as a football player depicted as dropping footballs labeled, “DADT” and “health care reform.” Two coaches in the background talk to each other with one saying, “Shuler keeps dropping the ball!” and the other coach responds, “Let’s try the new guy.” 
• Folder 15 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Two workers for BP oil company stand on a boat that has a crane with an attachment designed to help clean up an oil spill with one of the workers saying, “If this works, then I think we’re home free!” The other worker is looking behind them with a concerned look at the sky above which appears to be opening up for a storm.
  • Cartoon 2: Three news reporters are seen standing beside each other with the left most person asking, “How does the president keep his cool?” and the middle person responds, “He doesn’t sweat the little things.” The right most person adds, “I don’t think he’s had any little things yet.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Benjamin Netanyahu gives Sarah Palin a tour of the defensive walls around Israel explaining, “and this is a fence we’re building to keep some overly aggressive neighbors out.” Sarah Palin responds, “right there with ya, Bibi!” 
  • Cartoon 4: A history of oil as a substance and what we have used it for throughout history with it being depicted as a form of torture, a form of defense for medieval castles, it poisining our food, and it being the downfall of former president Barack Obama in reference to the Deep Horizon Oil Spill. Each event has an image associated with it.
  • Cartoon 5: A weather reporter in the field holds onto their microphone as violent winds whip around them and a black substance sticks to their raincoat. A voice from the station they are reporting for asks, “Jim, is that black hail?!” A larger caption reads, “This year’s weather channel hurricane coverage…” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two people stare at a mob that is holding pitchforks, torches, and someone who has been tarred and feathered and attached to a post. One of the people asks the other next to them, “is “outcumbent” even a word?” 
  • Cartoon 7: Barack Obama walks as he thinks to himself, “Whose (expletive) do I need to kick?” A giant swinging shoe and leg labeled, “gulf disaster, economy, and war” is right behind Obama unbeknownst to him.
  • Cartoon 8: A man sits at an artist drawing desk and looks at the viewer saying, “I just got a small business loan. At first, the bank said being an editorial cartoonist made me a bad risk. All I had to say were three words: South Carolina politics.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Hu Jintao and presumably Hilary Clinton have a discussion but Hu says to two children behind his chair, “Hey…hey, we have company!!” The two children are former North Korean leader Kim Jong-il and Lee Myung-bak bullying each other and making noise.
  • Cartoon 10: A person drives past a billboard on a road that reads, “Welcome to South Carolina, the peach of a freak mix of sex & politics state.” 

Box 8:

• Folder 1 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Two dogs acting as humans with one dog looking younger and operating a computer looking at the older dog which is their grandpa. The younger dog is asking, “Twitter or Facebook grandpa?” The older dog is thinking to himself and shrugging, “I just want to pay my water bill…” A larger caption above the scene reads, “Shruggers, you know you are a shrugger if you think “social media” is more “church newsletter” and “gossip fence” and less about new tools to help run city government.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man who is presumably a political figure thinks to himself while staring off into the distance, “I knew the election was over! Did he think I didn’t know?! (expletive) young punk! He better stay off my lawn!!” 
  • Cartoon 3: A elderly pastor yells out, “Gays getting married! Gays in the military! Gays on capitol hill!! What is this country coming to?!” Another man walking by responds with, “It’s senses?” 
  • Cartoon 4: The back of a jacket with what appears to be a large patch depicting a houseless veteran walking along the side of a road while cars speed by with the caption, “Death from the side.” A larger caption reads, “Still in harm’s way.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Three children stand beside each other and talk, the leftmost child says, “Memorial Day honors the men and women of the military who have given their lives for their country.” The middle child responds, “Maybe someday there will be an end to wars.” The rightmost child asks, “Wars end?” 
  • Cartoon 6: Dick Cheney and another man named Option, P lay in hospital beds as a doctor says to them, “Gentlemen, against almost impossible odds, you both still seem to be alive.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man who is labeled as, “Asheville” tries to climb a ladder but has a ball and chain attached to his ankle, the ball is labeled, “Sullivan Act.” Another man with bolt cutters whistles and ignores the trapped man walking away. The trapped man asks, “A little help?!” 
  • Cartoon 8: Barack Obama talks to the Dalai Lama saying, “Actually, I was going to ask for some help with my China problem.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man wearing a t-shirt reading, “no nukes” holds a sign reading, “Even if you can pronounce it correctly, it’s still a bad idea!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A man talks to another person in a different room while watching Sarah Palin on TV saying, “I ‘m having a hard time with “Sarah Palin” and “Analyst” in the same sentence.” The other person replies, “A foxymoron?”
• Folder 2 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A depiction of an Olympic luging course with an entire house having just gone down the course and the announcers off to the side saying, “Maybe we should do something to slow this run down.” A larger caption reads, “New Olympic sport from WNC: house luge.”
  • Cartoon 2: A interior view of a engine bay of a car with a cut out of Asheville as displayed on a map and limited by its cities borders acting as the engine in the car. A larger caption reads, “economic power plant.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A obese person stands with food and drink in their hand and looking at Michelle and Barack Obama. A sign above the person reads, “Let’s move, campaign against obesity” and the person is wearing a shirt that reads, “deficit.” Obama is saying to Michelle, “Help me out here, honey…” 
  • Cartoon 4: An elephant in a red coat and beanie has a snowball fight with a donkey that has a blue coat and beanie on. Both figures look angry during the snowball fight. Larger caption reads, “D.C forecast- more of the same…” 
  • Cartoon 5: A parodied rendition of the famous Uncle Sam “I Want You” propaganda poster with the captions reading, “I want you to take the money and forget about that road!!!” and “Swain County.” Uncle Sam also has money in his left hand in this version. 
  • Cartoon 6: An outstretched hand with a black background behind it that has, “Don’t bring up Obama’s “I don’t quit” line, -First Dude” written on the palm of the hand. 
  • Cartoon 7:A man about to get into a car that is made by Toyota is being talked to by a man in a trench coat and fedora in an alleyway saying, “Hey pal, now that your “gold standard” is a little tarnished…” The man in the coat is holding a sign that reads, “GM, Ford” and has an additional sign leaning against the car near him that reads, “Low interest financing, cash back incentives.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two kids sled down a hill in the snow with one of the kids asking, “Why did they decide to go to “year-round school”?” In another scene on the same card there is a computer on a desk that has text on the screen that reads, “Another snow day! City and county schools to drag on through summer” with the same two kids seen sledding out of the window in the room where the computer is located.
  • Cartoon 9: A male Christian missionary carries an earthquake disaster survivor away from a pile of rubble labeled, “Haiti” and to a sign that reads, “Dominican Republic.” The survivor is saying to the missionary, “A little more “help” and a little less “save”?” 
  • Cartoon 10: A portrait of former Senator John McCain with some off scene voice asking him, “Senator McCain, what is your position on gays in the military?” McCain is responding, “Don’t ask; I can’t tell.” 
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Barack Obama and Uncle Sam in a fighter jet with the wings bent upward and almost touching above the cockpit. The wings are labeled, “right wing” and “left wing.” Uncle Sam is asking, “They’re not very far apart are they?” and Obama responds, “Why do you think it’s so hard to get off the ground?” 
  • Cartoon 2: A bumper sticker on a car that reads, “I’ve already got cabin fever from the next snow storm.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A sign that is halfway covered with a piece  of paper trying to cover up the old information. The old information partially reads, “No affordable housing, slumping economy, declining wages.” The new piece  of paper reads, “Shiny bright new.” A larger caption reads, “Sign of the times.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Barack Obama trying to frantically climb up an oil covered pole with “legacy” placed at the top and a pool of oil at the bottom labeled, “gulf spill.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Three men are gathered at a table having drinks with the left most man saying, “Having a thirsty Thursday without a ball game is kinda weird…” The man in the middle responds, “We can do might as well Mondays, and why not Wednesdays!” The right most man says, “Beer city, USA.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A rendition of the seven little dwarfs from the popular Disney movie Snow White with a group of dwarfs walking into the mine and the mine is labeled, “1 trillion.” Three of the dwarfs are labeled, “warlords, Taliban, and Karza govt.” An additional dwarf labeled, “USA” is saying, “It’s out of here I go…?”
  • Cartoon 7: A group of people walking on a sidewalk that has “WNC” imprinted on it and they appear startled and looking around. They are all collectively saying, “Waterfalls, lightning, and bears, oh my!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man depicted in a backwards hat with an antenna on it, a sword, and a shirt that reads, “The Osama Bomba.” He is flying through the air with feet together and arms spread like wings, a transmission to the antenna reads, “Try not to get arrested this time!!” A larger caption reads, “The air force’s new remote control drone.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Benjamin Franklin and George Washington standing on opposite sides of a cutout of the United States as depicted on a map with Franklin asking, “We didn’t do so badly, did we, George?” Washington responds, “Nothing wrong with having more than one father.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A customer and bartender look up at a TV in the bar that has Sarah Palin on the screen. The customer is saying, “Forget about her breast…get that woman a brain implant!” 
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: An exterior view of a grocery store named, “Gulf-Mart” with a panicked voice coming from inside the store and echoing out into the parking lot saying, “Clean up! Spill on the seafood aisle.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A woman holding a cell phone and driving a car yells out of her driver side window at a motorcycle rider, “Why do you have to be so freakin’ loud?! The man on the motorcycle responds, “Why do I have to remind you to pay attention?
  • Cartoon 3: A man standing in his apartment doorway asks a person who is dressed in extreme protective dress and has an armored police dog with them, “What is it?! Bomb scare? Radiation leak?” The person responds, “Census.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Benjamin Netanyahu choking a man whose shirt is labeled, “Gaza” and saying, “no, no is a lot less choking than before!” The man is struggling to breathe but still says, “thank you.” This is in reference to the ongoing conflict between Israel and Palenstine on the Gaza Strip.
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama telling former general Stanley A. McChrystal who is standing at attention, “Four words, general. “Don’t answer, don’t tell.” The general is holding a piece  of paper that reads, “pink slip.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Barack Obama dressed as a fairgrounds worker who is doing a magic trick with hiding objects under cups for a man and woman, a sign beside Obama reads, “find the crisis, $1.” The man is saying, “That guy is good! I have no idea where that McChrystal mess went!” The woman responds, “He can juggle, too.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A billboard with text that reads, “I’m not threatened by billboards. Thank you for your concern, -God.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A depiction of what is presumably a local Asheville, NC council person dressed as a crossing guard and helping people cross the road while a pedestrian walkway is shown as being closed down in the background. A large caption reads, “Discouraged by the slow pace of reform, councilman Smith decides to take matters into his own hands…”
  • Cartoon 9: A college campus recruiting event displaying two different recruiters with one being a “traditionalist” wearing a suit and having a pipe in his hand and the other recruiter being a “activist” wearing a t-shirt that reads, “save everything” and holding a petition board” A lady is seen talking to both men saying, “To be fair, I’ll have to ask you both to leave, too.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Former U.S army general David H. Petraeus is being questioned by a council of three men with the middle man asking, “General Petraeus, have you ever played softball?” The right most man replies, “Not that there’s nothing wrong with that…”
• Folder 5 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Three presumable political figures are depicted with two being smaller and beside each other while the third is larger, wearing glasses and is saying, “Leave me out of this, knuckleheads!!” with raised hands. 
  • Cartoon 2: Al Gore in a massage parlor and a towel reads a newspaper whose main headline is, “Portland Police re-open Gore “Massage Gate” case, like a “sex-crazed poodle”, states therapist.” There is a picture of Al Gore in the newspaper and the man is thinking, “Well, this is certainly inconvenient.”
  • Cartoon 3: Two people walk on an abandoned stretch of road that hints towards the location being roads within Asheville, NC. One of the people says, “You’re too young to remember when folks around here were worried about having safe places to walk” to which the other person responds, “Back when there was gas?” A larger caption reads, “In the not too distant future.”  
  • Cartoon 4: A duck with the head of a presumable politician looking back at the viewer while water pours and deflects off of its feathers. The water is pooling and is labeled, “the latest.” Captions read, “Anatidae Teflonicus, a rare duck (africanae republicans) that defies logic in the length of its survival.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A pillar telescope commonly seen at observatories or scenic overlooks depicted as being in a desert like setting. Where it would usually say the price for operating the telescope there is instead the requirement of “one open mind” and a plaque on the telescope reads, “See the other side’s point of view.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A hood of an animal seen about to step on an upside down rake which will pop up and hit the animal, the rake is thinking, “Be careful what you wish for…” A larger caption reads, “Democrats set up a “republican gaffe” website…” 
  • Cartoon 7: A highway being only used by tractors and farmers with a sign next to the road reading, “Leicester” and two men standing by a fence near the road with one saying, “You widen a road, it’ll just fill up.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Barack Obama reading the Torah as part of a presumable Bar Mitzvah saying wearing a yamaka and tallit, “Today I will read a passage from the book of political reality.” Benjamin Netanyahu stands to the side thinking to himself, “My son, today you are a man.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Sarah Palin pointing at a grizzly bear cub and mother in a zoo enclosure saying, “Yoo hoo! Fierce protectress of America’s future!” The cub is saying, “She doesn’t look anything like you, mama” and the mother responds, “I told you so, son……”Moms sort of just know when something is wrong”.”
  • Cartoon 10: A police car is parked in a driveway but there is no house and there is only a mailbox and a pitched tent in a field of grass. The caption reads, “to protect and serve…and afford…
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A rear perspective view of a Asheville, NC police car with a bumper sticker that reads, “Be even more careful-the next motorcycle that you run off the road might have a cop on it!!!” 
  • Cartoon 2: An elephant angrily says to a man at a desk investigating papers, “Look for receipts from RentGirl.com!!” A larger caption reads, “Once again, the GOP is frustrated by the lack of a paper trail…” A sign with a portrait of Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan sits to the side with the caption, “Gaygan?” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two portraits of John McCain and Sarah Palin with McCain thinking to himself, “Who is this (expletive) nut job and why is she following me around?” as he looks at Palin. A larger caption reads, “McCain forgets another crucial part of his bio…” 
  • Cartoon 4: A lawyer walks out of a doorway waving through a wad of cash and smiling, the doorway reads, “bp compensation distribution center.” There is a man with a crowd of sea animals that glares at the lawyer as he leaves the office. This is in reference to the Deep Horizon Oil Spill during this time.
  • Cartoon 5: A rendition of the popular Star Wars character Yoda of a presumably political figure named Yelda with only the face being changed in the rendition to match the politician. The politician is saying, “Losing another election, it seems, I am” and holding a cell phone that is depicted as saying, “Master Yelda, perhaps you are the great disturbance in the force.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A factory spews black smoke in front of a skyline while distribution trucks sit by the loading docks of the factory. A sign nearby the factory reads, “Beijing MFG, LTD, Factory #743, home of the Vuvuzela!” A larger caption reads, “the real 2010 World Cup winner.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man speaks to another person drawing at an artist’s desk (presumably David Cohen) saying, “Hey man, aren’t you worried one day, some fundamentalist nut job will try to kill you because of your cartoons mocking Christians? The person at the desk responds, “Nah… it’s not like I was an abortion doctor.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A large rock covered in blood on one side appearing as if it was used as a weapon with a large caption above it saying, “Stone age justice.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Associate Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan walking towards the viewer with a man and a woman in traditional Bavarian garb in the background speaking. The woman says, “Hansel, she’ll never find her way back with such a skimpy trail” and the man responds, “She might have some trouble moving forward, too.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Rand Paul with both of his shoes in his mouth staring back at the viewer with a large caption above him reading, “Civil rights…..and lefts!” 
• Folder 7 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A man is depicted as going through a revolving door labeled, “family values” with the man being motivated and determined before entering and visibly embarrassed after he exits the door. A caption reads, “D.C. merry-go-round.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two presumable Taliban fighters sit in a cave listening to a radio that is saying, “Arab-American wins miss USA 2010.” One of the fighters is asking, “What is a Burqini?” 
  • Cartoon 3: A depiction of Pat Buchanan saying, “There are too many Jews on the Supreme Court!!” to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan who is thinking to herself, “One word, Pat…”chosen”.”
  • Cartoon 4: A partial view of the earth’s surface, showing it’s curvature and a large portion of ocean. A huge portion of the ocean is covered in black text that reads, “Oh (expletive).” The text is supposed to be oil from the Deep Horizon Oil Spill. A caption reads, “The Gulf Oil Spill can now be seen from space…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two men sit on a bench talking with the man on the right asking, “Ah, the southern conference tourney! Remember that green all over town?” The other man asks, “The Marshall fans?” The man on the right responds, “The money.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Sarah Palin leans out of the side of a helicopter while pointing to a group of democratic politicians running and laying in a field below portraying they are being hunted. Palin is saying, “I’m not inciting anyone to do violence…but….there they are!!’ 
  • Cartoon 7: A group of elephants jump and react in a state of fear at the sight of a bipedal mouse in a suit, the mouse is also meant to be Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan.
  • Cartoon 8: Barack Obama screaming, “to Mars!!” in a toy rocking machine that is a spaceship labeled, “NASA” with an astronaut helmet on and Uncle Sam standing next to him smiling. A man looks at the scene from the side of the card while thinking to himself, “…The red planet…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A wedding cake with a cake topper but instead of a decorative piece  it has two men standing on the top of the cake with a brick wall in between them. A caption reads, “State of the union.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A news broadcast of the at the time, future inauguration taking place on January 20th, 2013 with two news anchors reporting on it. A male reporter says, “Today’s inauguration is brought to you by General Electric and the Disney company.” The female reporter is saying, “And here to administer the Halliburton oath of office, is the Bank of America Chief Justice of the Supreme Court…” 
• Folder 8 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A stylized depiction of Chrisitine O’Donnell as a witch on a flying broom zooming through the night sky with her trail saying, “Bedabbled.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two men rest on a porch with one sitting in a rocking chair and the other resting against a structural post on the porch. The man in the chair says, “More and more, it seems elections are about choosing the evil of two lessers.” 
  • Cartoon 3: An elephant and a tea kettle are displayed dancing together on a televised dance competition in front of shocked judges. The elephant is saying, “I hate that I have to dance with you!” with the tea kettle responding, “Shut up and let me lead!!” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man is depicted as driving behind a elderly, slow driving motorist on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Asheville, NC known for its scenic views of natural landscape. The man is thinking to himself, “One of the few times I don’t mind being behind a slow 75-year old…” 
  • Cartoon 5: The head of Newt Gingrich is a pool of a dark substance looking to the sky with mouth slightly ajar. A informational section about the head of Newt is placed to the side reading, “Newtus Gingrichii, Habitat: moist, dark places in the forest fringes, Diet: must eat twice its weight in publicity daily to support fast hyperbolic rate, Favorite Position: up to it’s jowls in mud & innuendo.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two characters from the popular American cartoon The Peanuts are displayed with one holding a football that reads, “CTS”  upright for the main character Charlie Brown to kick. The character holding the football has a t-shirt on that reads, “EPA” and is saying, “No, Charlie Brown, this time, I guarantee it!” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man with a colonial hat decorated with hanging tea bags and a t-shirt that displays Barack Obama angrily looking at the viewer with a toothbrush mustache resembling Adolf Hitler asks, “What?” to a scowling Jewish man looking back at him.” A larger caption reads, “the tea party reaches out to Jews…” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two people walk down the street with the bald man on the left saying, “The way things happen now…the people who are so anti-Muslim-I think those people might be Muslims!” The long haired man on the right responds, “If they would have them.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man sits at a desk that has the following acronym on a sign in front of it, “A. shevillains F. utility R. ailing A. gainst I. incoming D. amn Y.ankees.” The man is saying, “It’s not that we don’t like any northern transplants-…well, actually…we don’t.” There is also a fence nearby the man with a sign reading, “site of proposed Northern Transplant Community Center.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Former speaker of the house John Boehner depicted as being a dog with only his head being the identifiable factor being led on a leash by a group of laughing lobbyists. A caption reads, “Lobbyists’ lap dog.” 
• Folder 9 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A x-ray view of the inner skull of an elephant head with Barack Obama in the skull in construction gear trying to fix a broken pipe and other neglected items with him thinking to himself, “I don’t know if 50 billion will be enough…” A larger caption reads, “Rebuilding the infrastructure.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A elderly man in a suit throws a book labeled, “Holy Quran” into a burning trash can filled with other books and pointing to the viewer. He is saying, “I don’t have a problem with moderate Muslims. It’s the extremists who give the religion a bad name! Amen.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A couple that also happens to be leafs off a tree with the wife trying on different clothes while shopping asking, “Honey, which do you like best?” The other leaf responds, “Red, yellow, orange- they all look good! Can we go now?! The game is about to start!” 
  • Cartoon 4: Barack Obama displayed climbing a massive mountain with an arrow shaped sign pointing towards the top reading, “Middle East Summit.” Obama is disappointed when reaching the top near a cave and sees a sign reading, “The wise man is out.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama operating a submarine with mechanical arms that is holding a plug of some sort meant to stop a draining hole that is labeled, “democrat losses in the house & senate.” Obama is saying, “Another (expletive) hole I’ve got to try and plug up!” 
  • Cartoon 6: George W. Bush typing on a computer with an agitated expression on his face and saying, “Come on, Barack! I’ll friend you if you’ll friend me!” 
  • Cartoon 7: A goat and a man talk on the side of the road with cars passing and the goat asking, “No sidewalk yet!?” and the man responding, “No money yet.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A piece  of paper rest on a desk next to a pen reading, “From the desk of the Boss, Notes for mideast peace talks: For Netanyahu, freeze the settlements, For Abbas, Be careful where you propose to build a mosque.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man and a woman walk past a newspaper dispenser for the Daily News media outlet with the front newspaper reading, “Poll: Atheists and agnostics know the most about religion.” The woman says to the man, “It’s like art; I know what I don’t like.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Former American interim White House Chief of Staff Pete Rouse talking to a White House reporter asking him, “Mr. Rouse, is it true that some of your staff call you “Yoda”, and that you like the Grateful Dead?” Rouse responds, “Best band ever, dead are next!!!” 
• Folder 10 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Two men stand on either side of a sign that reads, “Pack Square Park, Downtown Asheville, milestone opening, May 2010.” One man is labeled as, “conservancy” and is saying, “We said milestone not millstone.” to a man holding a millstone that has “$2ml debt owed to city” inscribed on it.
  • Cartoon 2: Three people sit in a car with a person wearing a pin that reads, “S.C.” (standing for South Carolina) drives the car and a man and a woman sit in the back seat. The person driving says, “Nikki, quit touching your blogger” to Nikki Haley, former governor of South Carolina. The man is saying, “She’s having an inappropriate physical relationship with me!!” with Nikki denying it in response. This is in reference to a scandal concerning Nikki Haley and a possible affair that was rumored to exist.  
  • Cartoon 3: A depiction of the biblical scene where three wise men meet baby Jesus and bring gifts of which they are holding in their hands as they rest by the cradle. The star of Bethlehem is seen at the foot of the cradle as well but there is no visual representation of baby Jesus. 
  • Cartoon 4: Barack Obama stands with a elderly man as they both look at a bipedal elephant nearby whose head has been partially destroyed with a plume of smoke coming from the crater in the skull. Obama says, “All I said was “those are four good ideas; I think we can use them”, and he said, “no…no…no…wait..” and then that happened.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama buttons his shirt after getting a check up by a doctor who is an elephant that is saying to Obama, “Your cholesterol is up, and your polls are down-how about a cigarette?” Obama responds, “How about a second opinion?” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man kneels praying in front of a TV that has “quake in Chile” displayed on the screen. A woman sits on a nearby couch asking, “Honey, are you praying for the people of Chile?” The man responds, “I’m praying that Pat Robertson keeps his mouth shut.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man stands on a box with a picket sign that reads, “rally to restore sanity” protesting. A mother and son walk by the man with the mother leading the boy away from the man saying, “Don’t stare at the crazy man, junior.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Barack Obama sits in a wooden throne and royal garb complete with crown, resting. He and his throne is almost entirely covered in snow and the Washington Monument stands in the background. A larger caption reads, “It was the winter of our discontent…” 
  • Cartoon 9: Barack Obama stands in ragged clothing next to two elephants who are wearing just leaves for coverage as they say to him, “The reality here is that we are trying to vote you off the island!” A sign parodying a popular American reality TV show Survivor is placed next to the scene reading, “Outwit, outplay, outlast, Survivor: Health care summit.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A man reads a newspaper from the Asheville Citizen Times that reads, “Young vandals strike random targets downtown, motivation unclear.” The man says, “What a waste!” with a woman sitting across from him thinking to herself, “…of a college education.” 
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A bird who is presumably a Eastern Towhee or House Finch, both native to NC, standing in snow and by a flower poking up from said snow. The bird is saying, “I don’t know about you……but I think this might be a bit premature…” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two hands labeled “U.S.” and “Wikileaks” hold up either end of a carpet as two brooms sweep paper and dust under the rug. The rug is labeled, “diplomacy.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A caption reads, “the real war on Christmas, buy!!, buy!!, buy!!” as Santa Clause runs angrily holding a large bag labeled, “hype, greed, exploitation.” In his path lies biblical figures Mary, Joseph, and baby Jesus in a cradle, with Mary raising her hand in fear.
  • Cartoon 4: A closeup of a person holding a phone whose brand is apparently, “iLegislature” and has an app whose thumbnail is of a elderly man with a mustache. The app’s name is “Apodaca” and someone off scene is saying, “yeah it’s my new rules committee “decider” ap.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A large caption reads, “Remember, by spending a lot of money that you don’t have on Christmas gifts, you will help a struggling economy and save many jobs…” A asian couple stands under a single caption reading, “…theirs…”, a woman says, “thank you America!” and a man says “thank you Wal-Mart!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A depiction of what is presumably Michael Moore holding a stick with a line attached to the end but with nothing on it. Moore is thinking to himself, “Here I am, offering the gangs’ a carrot, and what do they do?! They steal it!” 
  • Cartoon 7: Barack Obama depicted waving an arm in the air and screaming while standing at a podium with two secret service agents standing below the podium with one of them saying, “Is he trying something new?” and the other agent responding, “It’s called “angry management”.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A caption reading, “Why stop at housing?” is displayed above a group of protesters in Asheville, NC that are advocating for affordable food, health care, school, gas, music, and beer in the region.  
  • Cartoon 9: A split scene cartoon with one scene showing a group of people clapping as another person cuts a ribbon on a newly built sidewalk. One person holds a sign that reads, “Asheville sidewalk initiative.” The other scene is the same sidewalk but shows a landscape shot depicting the sidewalk as ending and turning into a dirt path, conveying the sense that this sidewalk is not complete. A quote bridges the two scenes reading, “One small step for a man……one giant leap of faith for pedestrians.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two men dressed very similarly sit in a car outside a drive through window lane staring at the window with distaste. A caption above them reads, “Beckett’s first draft” and another caption to the right reads, “waiting for to go.” 
• Folder 12 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Four people walking on the sidewalk all speaking to each other with different holiday greetings including, “happy extended retail period!”, “merry national religious holiday”, and “Joyous non-denominational observance!” The fourth person is saying, “have a great whatever.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two Inuits talking to each other with one holding a spear and asking the other, “Is it time?” The other Inuit looks pregnant and responds, “Yes, my ice broke.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two adults stand next to a walking group of children with the woman reading a piece  of paper saying, “It’s a petition stating they don’t want to wear uniforms” with the man responding, “What do they call those ?” The group of children are all wearing varying styles of clothes looking somewhat randomly put together. 
  • Cartoon 4: A man appears to be in the process of marrying an electronic device with a priest saying, “I now pronounce you husband and wifi” and the man exclaiming, “sweet!” as he types on the computer. 
  • Cartoon 5: A person driving by a large mural on a wall beside the road that depicts the lower half of a person’s face and pointing finger towards the viewer of the mural. The pointing person on the mural is also saying, “art, schmart! Watch where you’re going!
  • Cartoon 6: A rear perspective of Santa Claus riding in his sleigh with his reindeer pulling him, a sticker on the back of the sleigh reads, “buy polar.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two men holding hands and walking together with one of the men saying, “Now that it’s legal for us to fight, I’m hoping it won’t be long before we can kiss, make-up, and get married!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A very elderly looking man holding a scythe, hourglass, and a sash that reads, “2010” stares at the viewer. In another scene the same position is presumed for the new figure but the figure is buried under snow and holding a snow shovel which is poking out from the pile of snow. A sash that reads, “2011” is strewn across the snow as well and a large caption above the  two scenes read, “tools of the trade.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two men look at a gingerbread house that is being displayed at a national gingerbread house competition in Asheville, NC. One of the men says, “I googled “affordable housing, Asheville”, and this is what came up.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A elderly man with a sash that reads, “parking patrol” asks a young lady who has recently parked in a handicap spot, “young lady!! What is your handicap if I may ask?!” The lady responds walking away from the man, “I suffer from stunted integrity levels.” 
• Folder 13 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A fenced in field that seems to be barely decorated or inhabited with only a sidewalk made in the shape of a circle with a line running diagonally through it being the only constructed part of the area. A larger caption above the scene reads, “Atheist worship center at ground zero.”
  • Cartoon 2: Two images, both with Barack Obama in them but one shows him giving a speech alone saying, “As an American president, I uphold and celebrate anyone’s right to build the house of worship of their choice on private property.” The other scene shows him giving a speech but with a representative of the Tea party and an elephant holding a sign calling for his exit in the 2012 election behind him while he says, “as this American president- no comment.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Three split images all under the caption that reads, “Asheville goes to the movies.” One image shows a man ordering something at a restaurant saying, “supersize that, ok?” The scene has a caption reading, “eat” under it. The second image has one man speaking into a bullhorn criticizing families that go to a formerly running festival in Asheville, NC called Bele-Chere and calling them sinners. The caption under the second image reads, “pray.” The third image shows two people arguing with each other, both holding signs with one reading “right” and the other “left.” The caption under the third image reads, “love.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A group of elephants running around, shielding themselves from, and trying to touch a black monolith labeled “Islam.” One elephant is saying to the viewer, “fear the monolith.” This scene is possibly parodying a popular movie scene in Stanley Kubricks, 2001: A Space Odyssey in which a group of monkeys are in a state of hysteria at the sight of a similar looking monolith.
  • Cartoon 5: Rupert Murdoch dropping a rock inscribed with, “$1mil to Republicans Governors Association” onto a scale causing it to tip. Captions read, “bare and unbalanced” and “Rupert Murdoch and news corporation.” 
  • Cartoon 6: The statue of liberty glares and towers over a man who is dropping a sign that reads, “No mosque at ground zero!!” A nearby woman says to the man, “Okay, you tell the nice New Yorker what she can or cannot do in her own backyard.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man climbs into a truck that is filled with boxes that are labeled, “geography, lack of skilled workforce, outsourcing, non-competitive incentives.” The truck is parked by a factory with a sign in front of it reading, “Excuseco, a division of Weeping ‘n’ Wailing, Inc. A larger caption above the scene reads, “Manufacturing: alive & well in WNC.”  
  • Cartoon 8: Two men talk at a bar with the man on the left saying, “I think Obama is a Muslim!!” and the other man on the right responding, “I don’t know, man. The dude doesn’t have time to pray 5 times a day.”  
  • Cartoon 9: Barack Obama displayed with a circle in the middle of his chest that is labeled, “ground zero” and another circle on his left bicep labeled, “rejected location for spiritual center.” A larger caption reads, “sitemap of Barack Obama’s religious convictions.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A newscaster speaks as they stare at the viewer saying, “In today’s news top story-a new, terribly important pseudo-crisis replaces yesterday’s terribly important pseudo-crisis in the 24/7 news cycle. More details as soon as someone makes them up.” 
• Folder 14 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A man shopping for a car looks at a vehicle that resembles a coupe but also has a helicopter rotor on the top of the roof, complete with blades. The car salesman is saying to the customer, “62 mile long traffic jam? No problem!” A sign nearby the car reads, “Honest Li’s autos.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two scenes with one showing two men talking, one man is holding a sign about to put it in a yard while the other man congratulates him on getting a job at a bank. The other scene shows the same men but now the sign is revealed as reading, “notice of foreclosure” and the man with the sign is saying, “I get to take this out of my yard and put it in someone else’s.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A group of scientists driving a car and about to collide with a roadblock with some of the scientists already flying through the air. The roadblock is labeled, “court order” and the larger caption above the scene reads, “stemmed cell research.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A white man hailing for a taxi with a knife in his hand and a middle eastern appearing taxi driver looking nervous when stopping for the man. A sign on the side of the taxi reads, “Don’t stab me, bro! Cab co.” This is reference to the 2010 stabbing of a New York Muslim taxi driver perpetrated by Michael Enright
  • Cartoon 5: A POV of looking down a fenced in walkway over a roadway with a exclamation mark at the end of the walkway and chain link tunnel. 
  • Cartoon 6: A figure that is presumably Glenn Beck that is giving a speech at a podium but with two giant silhouetted figures standing behind him. The location is also presumably the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C due to a rally taking place there in real life by Glenn Beck the same year this cartoon was made.
  • Cartoon 7: A Fox news broadcaster is speaking to the viewer saying, “Is he a Muslim? I don’t think so. Is he a Christian? If he is, it’s some weird kind. Is he a Jew? He certainly has their support. Is he a mormon? …he better not be…” 
  • Cartoon 8: Barack Obama speaking at a podium presenting a house of cards behind him labeled, “Iraq.” Obama is saying, “nation building accomplished!” A separate caption by the podium reads, “…Nobody sneeze…”  
  • Cartoon 9: Three men ride in a boat filled with boxes, the boat is also labeled as, “Gaza relief.” One man looks overboard into the water with a worried expression on his face at the stars of David floating in the water presumably acting as naval explosive mines or obstacles. 
  • Cartoon 10: The French Broad River in Asheville, NC depicted as flooding and people trying to cross it with their belongings. One person is saying, “Hey, as soon as Royal Pines gets a microbrewery. I am outta here!” A larger caption above the scene reads, “Publicly avowing that they need nothing from Asheville, residents in annexation targeted areas sneak across the border to work, dine, and shop…” 
• Folder 15 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Sarah Palin dressed as a princess in formal dress talking to a frog that is drawn to resemble Joe Miller, a political candidate that Palin had ties with and a later feud. Palin is saying to the frog, “I made you, Miller, and unless you want to stay like this, I suggest you stop messing with the queen!!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A house is depicted as just recently slid down a large mountain slope with two people talking at the bottom nearby the house. One person asks, “Did you build down here because of the new steep slope rules?” The other person responds, “Nah, I figured it would wind up down here anyway.” 
  • Cartoon 3: One man stands at a podium looking at the microphone he is talking into saying, “woops…, is thing on?!” Another man standing beside him replies, “It’s never off, sir.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A large caption reads, “This year’s hot costumes” with three children dressed up for Halloween. One costume is a witch with the caption, “Not witch”, another child has a pumpkin for a head with a sheet draped over their body with the  caption, “John-O-Lantern.” The final child is dressed in a WW2 German soldier uniform with a bag bearing a swastika on it, the caption reads, “re-enactor.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man behind a desk gives a book to two students while looking at the viewer saying, “I’m still paying for my education, and now I have to help pay for theirs!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A hand labeled “gay teens” reaches out to a life saver labeled, “it gets better.com”  commonly used when a person is being saved in a body of water, and a noose which are placed beside each other prompting a choice. 
  • Cartoon 7: The inside of a courtroom with the jury being made up of a variety of sea animals and sea birds with a farmer acting as a judge. At the defendant’s table labeled “bp” one man says to another, “This isn’t looking very good…” 
  • Cartoon 8: Three presumable political figures displayed with one man about to push another older man over with the help of a woman kneeling behind the older man, tripping him.
  • Cartoon 9: Three generations of men watch a TV that is displaying, “miners freed!” The youngest man is thinking, “almost as good as 9/10!” The middle aged man is thinking, “almost as good as the first man on the moon!” The eldest man is thinking, “almost as good as V-E day!” This is in reference to the 2010 mining disaster and rescue effort of the Copiapo accident in 2010 that took place in Chile.
  • Cartoon 10: An elephant and donkey sit in bathtubs located in a field and overlooking a presumably body of water in a scenic area. Both the animals are thinking to themselves, “This election has been a lot longer than 4 hours…”

Box 9:

• Folder 1 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A large caption reading, “Asheville notebook-Oct. 17 Pack Square Park, one end a Christian rally with rock music. The other end, a Jewish festival with great food. And in between, an inflated bouncing cube shaped like a NASCAR racer. Where kids of all stripes enjoyed a beautiful fall day.” Next to it a depiction of people jumping in a bounce house that is designed to look like a NASCAR race car. 
  • Cartoon 2: Two women speak with one woman having two pink ribbons which are advertising support for breast cancer awareness month attached to each of her breasts. The same woman is saying, “Hey, they’re already looking at them anyway…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A man in a suit looks down at his suit jacket pockets which are filled with cash and is acting surprised saying, “whoa…!! Where did all this anonymously come from?” Another man in the background runs away laughing and is labeled, “hidden corporate donations.” A larger caption above the scene reads, “the outpocket strikes again!” 
  • Cartoon 4: A portrait of Fidel Castro staring back at the viewer with a caption beside him reading, “forgotten, but not gone.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Three targets used for firearm training suspended with each being labeled a different caption. One is depicted as already being shot and is labeled, “gun laws.” The second is labeled, “health care.” The third is labeled, “campaign finance reform.” A larger caption under the targets reads, “next!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A detailed map of Hickory Nut Forest Eco-Community labeled with places and landmarks within the community. 
  • Cartoon 7: A caption reads, “the future of the NFL” with two people standing opposite of each other in football uniform esque mechatronic exoskeletons while a referee stands between them saying, “Personal foul on the defense, no. 51, illegal use of pocket thermonuclear devices.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A elderly man in a suit speaks to a press member from a podium saying, “I will now have a “Q” session with the press.” A press member asks, “Q? What happened to “A?”.” A cameraman in the background adds, “Good “Q”.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A magician called “The Great Buncombe” pulls a rabbit out of a hat with the hat labeled, “manufacturing jobs.” Two off-scene voices say, “Ooh…magic?!” and “No, talent, hard work, and more than just a little luck!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A landline phone with an answering machine depicted as reading a voicemail message out loud saying, “Hello, you have reached the office of professor Anita Hill. I can’t come to the phone-I’m rolling around on the floor laughing my (expletive) off right now-please leave a message and try to top the last one!!” This is in possible reference to Anita Hill and her testimony in 1991 against Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas where Hill claimed Thomas had assaulted her when she worked for him. More specifically the cartoon could be referencing when Thomas’s wife wanted Hill to apologize in 2010 over the 1991 allegations. 
• Folder 2 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Barack Obama in cheerleading garb and trying to inspire a group of demoralized donkeys saying they are going to lose. As Obama jumps up and down he is saying, “come on!! Where’s your team spirit?!” 
  • Cartoon 2: Barack Obama ushering two donkeys onward on a hike on a trail called “campaign trail”  as they climb over rocks labeled, “bailouts, health care jobs, and war.” One of the donkeys is asking “when do we get to the downhill part?” with the other donkey responding, “this is it.”
  • Cartoon 3: A top down view of a roadway with one of the lanes labeled as the, “unreasonably angry and increasingly irrational motorist lane.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A flag depicting a coiled snake with the text, “don’t tread on me or I’ll stomp on you” and a flagpole with a teapot topping the pole acting as the finial. A sign reading, “Paul for Senate” is behind the pole as well.
  • Cartoon 5: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad depicted as loading atomic rods into the ammunition cylinder of a giant revolver labeled, “Iran” r with Uncle Sam looking on disapprovingly. Mahmoud is saying, “what?!? I am just loading the rods!!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Death with their scythe depicted as walking away from the graves and tombstones of three recently buried teen drivers thinking to themselves, “Sometimes this job is too much, even for me…” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man, a variety of sea animals, and a sign reading, “Gulf economy” all covered in blocks of concrete sinking to the bottom of the ocean with a large caption above the scene saying, “What they saved the good concrete for.”  
  • Cartoon 8: Uncle Sam and his wife toss their car keys to Barack Obama who is dressed up like a car mechanic and standing near a car which is in a state of disrepair and labeled, “USA.” Uncle Sam is also asking Obama, “We’ll be back in 10 minutes. It’ll be fixed, right? 
  • Cartoon 9: A man talks to a bus driver wearing a “cloak of invisibility” in Asheville, NC saying, “Hey! Halloween was last week!” The bus driver responds, “I get to wear this every day.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A man sits on a therapist’s couch and tells of his problems, he says, “Loud commercials freak me out, I’m confused a lot about the best direction to go in, and I’m really angry most of the time.” The therapist glares at the man and is thinking to themselves, “post election stress disorder.”   
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Two elephants stand on top of a person’s head which is labeled, “angry voters” with one pushing Barack Obama off of the top. The elephants are celebrating and saying, “we made it up!” while the angry voter is looking up at them and is thinking, “yeah, now put up or shut up!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A dog stands over a dog bowl labeled, “blue” and looks over to three other dog bowls of the same name but with no other dogs eating from them. The dog is thinking, “guys?” 
  • Cartoon 3: Barack Obama seated at his desk taking a phone call but only getting the voicemail message with it depicted as saying, “You’ve reached the office of representative John Boehner. I can’t come to the phone- if you’ll leave your name and a brief message, I’ll say no to you as soon as I can.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Heath Shuler depicted as a dog in a dog house thinking to himself, “I guess this is the only house I’m going to be speaker of…” An elephant is walking to the dog house with a bark collar and singing, “oh, blue…
  • Cartoon 5: Two parents looking at the viewer with a man saying, “of course, we don’t want any kid to be bullied…” and a woman saying, “We’d like to see some socially ostracized and condemned to hell but not bullied.” Their son stands in the background asking, “who would Jesus bully?” 
  • Cartoon 6: George W. Bush holding his book Decision Points upside down while looking at the viewer saying, “I made that!” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two scenes of the same setting with a man and a woman sitting at a table while the man reads a newspaper. In one scene the man is saying, “Wow…the weather says there is a slim chance of some very light…” In the next scene, before the man can finish his sentence which ultimately ends with “snow”, the woman has already gone to the store and returned with an abundance of groceries to stock up with.
  • Cartoon 8: A man talks to his wife after she asks, “Honey, what are you doing in there?” The man responds as a book which is supposed to be former president George W. Bush’s book Decision Points spins in his lap with him saying, “I’m trying to read w’s new book…but it’s spinning too fast!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man reads the package of a container of cigarettes which reads, “get a gun, it’s a lot quicker and a lot less expensive!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A man consoles his frowning son who is saying, “no more toys?! Now it’s a crappy meal!” The father responds, “but it’s always been that son.” 
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A large caption reads, “Asheville tourist logo designs that didn’t make the cut…” Two hats sit beside each other with two different logos on the front of them. The one on the left has a houseless person scaring a man and the one to the right has a tourist raised on a pedestal with a money symbol on it and people worshiping the tourist on their hands and knees. 
  • Cartoon 2: A mother and son look at a grandfather who is in full military dress and saluting a flag. The son asks the mother, “Do you think grampa forgot that veteran’s day was last week?” with the mother responding, “I think he wants us to remember to honor Veterans every day.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A donkey, elephant, and an injured duck sit inside a room with a sign posted outside on the doorway that reads, “political symbols anonymous, Tues & Thurs 7pm, RM 81-A.” The duck is pointing to the other animals with a crutch saying, “what are you complaining about?!!” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two men walk across a bridge with Barack Obama being the only thing holding the two sides of the broken bridge together with the two men walking over his back. One of the men is saying, “I mean seriously, what has he done for the country?!” A sign on the cliff they are trying to reach reads,” welcome to what’s left of the future.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two men stand outside a business while it snows heavily with one dressed as a chef and the other dressed in a black trench coat. The chef is saying, “If we don’t take care of this, we could get fined!” with the other man responding, “why won’t Cecil come clean up our sidewalk?” This is in possible reference to the sidewalk snow clearing ordinance passed in 2010 in Asheville, NC which mandates those who own businesses have an obligation to clear off sidewalks that connect to their business property. 
  • Cartoon 6: A teacher is depicted giving a lesson about fractions but everything in the classroom is dissected or missing one half of itself. This includes the teacher, a desk, and the student she is teaching to. The teacher is saying, “class, because of ill-conceived funding cuts for teachers and education, today’s lesson is about fractions.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Joe Miller looking at a Alaska Senatorial Ballot and specifically the write in section for an unlisted candidate that in this case reads, “anybody but Miller!!!” Joe Miller’s response to this is, “Hey, they spelled “Murkowski” wrong! Count it for me!” 
  • Cartoon 8: An angry father drives with his two children in the backseat with one wearing a hat reading, “TSA” and the other child crying and screaming, “dad!!!! He’s groping me again!!!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A large caption reads, “medical researchers uncover the root cause of two of America’s most urgent health crises- obesity and ADD/ADHD…” A TV remote is depicted right next to the caption. 
  • Cartoon 10: A Irish father and son talk while traveling on a boat with the son asking, “I’m guessing it’s not to Amerika that we’re going eh, da?” The father responds, “aye, son…this time we’re on a slow boat to China.” 
• Folder 5 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Two TSA agents pat down a elderly man with the man saying, “you realize that this destroys the last remaining shred of romance about flying?!” One of the TSA agents is thinking to himself, “tell me about it…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A dog stares at a newspaper dispenser on the street with the dog thinking to itself, “are they just like that naturally, or do they have to be trained to do that?” The newspaper reads, “war rages on, murder injustice.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A young boy hangs his head out of a car’s rear window while saying to his father driving, “honk the horn in the tunnel daddy!!” with the father responding, “we’re not in a tunnel; we’re in a pothole.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A Christian depiction of God walking with a cell phone texting, through a crowd of people also using their cell phones. God’s texts are depicted as reading, “..th..nd is..nr..” 
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama reaching for a drill from Sarah Palin so he can hang two picture frames with “offshore oil” being displayed in the middle of the frames. Sarah Palin is saying, “your drill, baby.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A staircase leading to graduation and education with one white student on it while a black and other non-white student stand at the bottom of the staircase. The staircase has multiple barriers between the two groups of students that are labeled, “poverty”, “institutionalized bias”, “lack of resources for minorities”, and “prevailing social attitudes” and the staircase itself is labeled, “Asheville-Buncombe Co.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two people walk past an amusement ride titled, “Steep Slope Death Run” and shows people in a house getting to ride down a steep slope resembling a roller coaster ride. One of the people walking asks, “wow, people pay for that ride?” with the other person replying, “quarterly.” This is in reference to the added cost associated with building or living in a house on a steep slope in Asheville, NC according to city ordinance. 
  • Cartoon 8: A uniformed worker gives a donkey in a suit a full body x-ray scan with the worker thinking to themselves, “that’s odd…, this guy doesn’t seem to have a spine.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two chickens labeled, “Dems” stand with one chicken being decapitated and saying, “the super majority is falling! The super majority is falling!” The other chicken is shocked and responds, “good lord, what can we hope to accomplish with only 58 senators?” 
  • Cartoon 10: Christian depictions of God and Satan sit near God’s heavenly desk as a TV on the wall plays a video of a elderly man yelling about Satan and ranting. God is visibly distressed with his head in one of his hands saying, “..oh, geez……get me legal…sorry about that, S.” Satan, laughing, responds, “hey, no such thing as bad publicity.” 
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A man who is depicted as cleaning and vacuuming asks another man who is using a laptop in a reclining chair, “hey, how come I’m always the “domestic” partner?” The other man responds “please, it’s one of the few benefits I have!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A cracked and leaking teapot with the caption reading, “That must be where “crackpot” comes from.” A box containing tea is off to the side reading, “credibilitea” and is in possible reference to the conservative Tea party movement which was controversial in 2010 
  • Cartoon 3: A football player, presumably Tim Tebow, depicted with face paint on his cheeks that says “$ talks” staring back at the viewer. 
  • Cartoon 4: A Supreme Court Justice, presumably John G. Roberts, being portrayed as a puppet saying, “not true” repeatedly with an arm leading into their back and the arm being labeled, “corporations.” The person controlling the justice is saying, “I don’t even care if you can see my lips moving.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A pregnancy test that has an elephant head symbolizing the person has tested positive for being Republican. A piece of paper near the test reads, “Congratulations!!! You can’t be a little pregnant, but you can be 80% Republican!!! RNC” A caption above the scene reads, “Republican purity test.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A caveman-like cartoon club depicted by itself on an otherwise blank card with a caption attached to the club and reading, “cartoon club.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A large caption reads above two students seated at desk, “word problem- a train leaves Raleigh, traveling west at 50 mph. How long must a person in Asheville wait before she can expect passenger service?” One of the students asks, “what did you put down?” with the other student responding, “she shouldn’t hold her breath.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Joe Biden holds former Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres close and says to him, “There is absolutely no space between the U.S and Israel……and Shimon, there is no space over there…” as he also points to a sign reading, “East Jerusalem.” This is in reference to Joe Biden’s 2010 visit to Israel and condemnation of Israel’s plan to expand onto Palestinian land by creating more Israeli neighborhoods. 
  • Cartoon 9: A man steps down some stairs that eventually leads to a sudden drop off a cliff and is saying, “no, no, I’m just stepping down temporarily…” A podium and sign that says, “chairmen, ways and means” sits at the top of the stairwell the man is descending.
  • Cartoon 10: A doctor named, “Dr. Asheville” gives a knee jerk reaction exam to a patient with the doctor claiming that their reaction is “perfectly normal” after their knee swings violently. A larger caption reads, “Involuntary annexation reflex.” 
• Folder 7 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Patsy Keever and Bruce Goforth slide down a slope with only their heads visible and the trail leading to “legislation.” A larger caption reads, “sliding down the campaign slope with Keever and Goforth.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two images of the same scene of a Republican talking to a donkey. In the first scene the republican is saying, “you say tomato, and I say tomahto; you say…” In the second scene the republican is saying, “reconciliation and I say evil political tricks I conveniently forget that I used!”  
  • Cartoon 3: Three portraits of different men with different hairstyles, one being dreadlocks, another being a mullet, and another being a man with his hair shaved in the shape of a sidewalk that also reads, “build it.” A larger caption reads, “Asheville hairstyles.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man with a shirt that reads, “extreme right” stumbles out of a black mass or pit that is labeled, “hate, fear, ignorance.” The man has a baseball bat and is attempting to attack another man in an orange shirt that is saying, “oh, I can definitely see where you are coming from…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two scenes with one depicting a farmer looking at the viewer and saying, “don’t get me wrong-I’m glad that I-40 is open again. I’m glad that Biltmore Avenue is open again…” and another scene showing the same farmer looking up at a gas station sign showing high prices for gas. The farmer then says, “I just wish I could afford to use’em!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Four Catholic priests with Pope Benedict XVI in the center of them with all of them smiling and singing, “…thank heaven, for little boys…” 
  • Cartoon 7: A large pile of rubble is depicted with a transparent ghost labeled, “ghost town” floating out from under it. This is in reference to the 2010 landslide in Maggie Valley, NC at the Ghost Town in the Sky attraction. 
  • Cartoon 8: Two people walk beside each other with the leftmost person asking, “Do you think Sarah will toast Levi and Bristol at their wedding?” and the rightmost person responding, “for $150,000!” 
  • Cartoon 9: a referee stands ready to start a footrace of two men facing the opposite direction, one with very dark sunglasses on and the other man looking confused. A sign above the two men reads, “Bele Chere.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Sarah Palin holding a trophy in the air celebrating her victory of the “Scripps-Howard 2010, National Made-up Words Bee” with George W. Bush being the loser and glaring at her. Bush is depicted as thinking, “Dang! I’ve been dethronicated.” 
• Folder 8 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan jumping over hurdles labeled, “hearings”, “committee vote”, and “full senate vote.” Barack Obama is standing off to the side looking at a stopwatch recording Kagan’s time saying, “fast, too!” 
  • Cartoon 2: Tom Vilsack talking to a smirking Shirley Sherrod asking “Shirley, can you find it in your heart to accept my apology, and to help this white man.” This is in reference to her initial firing by Vilsack from the USDA and then offered a similar position some years later on a new Equity Commission Board.
  • Cartoon 3: A mother looks back at her two kids while washing dishes and is depicted as saying, “I don’t care what wikileaks says, I do not love your sister more than you, and nuking your bedroom was never really on the table.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Andrew Breitbart displayed as instructing an elephant holding a hammer labeled as “FOX” how to hammer some nails into wood which is labeled “truth” mimicking a shop class lesson. Breitbart is saying, “remember-always choose the right tool for the job” and a larger caption reads, “Mr. Breitbart’s shop class.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A sand or pebble filled bust of Uncle Sam depicted as leaking with the level of material in the bust going down and down. The bust is also labeled, “U.S diplomacy” and the pile of leaked material labeled as “wikileaks.” A larger caption reads, “losing face.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A number of Tupperware containers with leftovers inside of them labeled with the date “Nov, 2010.” The Tupperware containers are also labeled separately with the text including, “war”, “voter discounts”, and “economy, jobs.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A middle aged man sits in an armchair looking at the viewer saying, “after Thanksgiving Thursday, Black Friday, and small business Saturday, I’m ready for sitting down and snoozing Sunday.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A scene depicting two modernly dressed people shopping from two other, much more rural looking people with the rural people repurposing non-valuable items to sell to unsuspecting customers. For example, they are selling a moonshine distillery part as a repurposed lamp to an older lady in the scene.
  • Cartoon 9: A man stands at the desk of a turkey who appears to be his boss at a factory called, “Thanksco” looking disappointed and defeated. The turkey is saying to the man “don’t take it personally. It was inevitable that some heads would have to roll.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two men look at a crucified black bear with a sign around its neck reading, “GSMNP.” One of the men is saying, “talk about dying for someone else’s sins!” with the other man responding, “dude I got to get a picture of this!” 
• Folder 9 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A close up of a dinner table freshly used with a tray showing the bill and coins strewed across it. The bill reads, “Le Asheville, cost up living (arrow going up), total (arrow going up), thank you!” The coins are labeled, “tourism”, “cost of living”, and “wages.” A larger caption above the scene reads, “stiffed.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A elderly man sitting in a reclining chair eating and drinking saying, “That’s the 100th time you’ve told me to get out of this chair and do something physical outside!!” with an off scene voice responding, “And i’m turning blue waiting for it to happen!!!” A larger caption above the scene reads, “What blue zone “hundreds” are you pledging to improve your health?” This is in reference to the local Blue Zone Project that works to create healthier and more active communities through environmental policy change.
  • Cartoon 3: Barack Obama and Lee Myung-bak standing and looking at Kim Jong-ill who is holding a nuclear rocket and has a sword on his hip. “Lee Myung-bak is saying, “yes, it’s only rattling, but look at the size of his saber!” 
  • Cartoon 4: Santa Claus depicted as putting candles under a menorah with a man nearby holding a clipboard correcting him saying, “no, no, no, Mr. Claus. The candles go in the menorah, not under it.” A larger caption above the scene reads, “Career Retraining Center.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A nude male human body with a globe for a head and a box covering the crotch area reading, “Aid for Haiti” gets scanned by TSA agents as it walks through a metal detector in an airport. There are boxes behind the metal detector waiting to be scanned that are labeled, “food”, “water”, and “medicine” but cannot be moved because the price for shipping them is too much. A large caption above the scene reads, “bottleneck.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Local Asheville, NC politician Bruce Goforth depicted as trapped in a pile of rubble or some kind of substance and not being able to move. Goforth is saying, “Where’s that local boy I hired to clean this mess up?”
  • Cartoon 7: A man and woman walk by a newspaper dispenser with the front page of the newspaper reading, “Same sex-marriage now legal in D.C.” The man says, “I thought it already was legal…” with the woman responding, “You’re thinking of same old sex marriage.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two bears discuss at a bar while having drinks with the leftmost bear appearing as Smokey The Bear, a cartoon mascot for the U.S. Forest Service and the rightmost bear appearing more realistic. The rightmost bear is saying to Smokey, “I’m just saying- if you bite somebody, the hat isn’t going to do you much good.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Rush Limbaugh laying in a hospital bed as a human heart with legs and hands holds a trident and is about to stab Limbaugh in his chest while saying, “Open up, big boy! I know there’s room in there for me!” A larger caption above the scene reads, “Rush is hospitalized for chest pains.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Joe Biden and Dick Cheney wrestling and fighting over the number one spot on an Olympic podium in USA labeled outfits. A caption under the podium reads, “fool’s gold.” A larger caption above the scene reads, “MENS Sunday morning talk show.” 
• Folder 10 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A Christian depiction of God above the clouds and reading their palm which has “tell twit shut piehole” written on it. 
  • Cartoon 2: A paddle rest on a table and is inscribed with, “NC school systems corporal punishment policies.” A larger caption with an arrow pointing towards the paddle reads, “let’s spare the child and spoil that rod!” This is in reference to North Carolina and a law that allows “reasonable means” of physical punishment to be applied onto students by teachers. 
  • Cartoon 3: Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto from the popular American TV show “Popeye the Sailor Man” standing with Popeye’s shirt reading, “Massa.” Bluto is talking to Olive Oyl saying, “He needs to keep his “salty old hands” to himself!!” and Olive Oyl responding, “I’m sure he has a…plausible explanation Bluto.” This is in reference to Eric Massa, a former U.S representative who resigned in 2010 due to sexual misconduct occurrences with female staffers. 
  • Cartoon 4: BP oil and gas company’s logo being displayed on the card with the B in the logo being covered by a hand crossing its fingers and the P in the logo having a sink drain in the center of it, stopping any draining. 
  • Cartoon 5: A hand holds a match up to a copy of the Quran with the smoke from the match spelling out, “WWJD.” WWJD is an acronym for What Would Jesus Do?
  • Cartoon 6: A close up of the bottom of a person’s shoe as they walk with the heel of the shoe being replaced by a portrait of politician John Edwards’ surprised face. Captions surrounding the scene read, “John Edwards. Keeping the “heel” in “Tarheel.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Former mayor of Asheville, NC Terry Bellamy depicted as being pinned between a church and a rock labeled, “equal rights for all minorities.” A larger caption above the scene reads, “Between a rock and….another rock…” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man stands in front of a van on a road making it come to a halt and saying, “I am the pack leader. I am the dominant alpha. Slow down, or face a severe nipping!” Larger captions read, “the uniquely “Asheville” traffic calming solution” and “the traffic whisperer.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A hippo labeled, “growing population” and a water buffalo labeled, “development” walk away in disappointment from a dry watering hole labeled, “WNC water resources.” 
  • Cartoon 10: An alien putting groceries into a UFO with multiple bumper stickers that are parodying local and national political campaigns as well as general comedic stickers. A larger caption above the scene reads, “bumper sticker culture in the universe fare parking lot.” 
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: A portrait of what is presumably Tiger Woods with heavily enlarged black eyes looking at the viewer with a single tear running down his face. A caption above Tiger Woods reads, “I’m so sorry! Do you still wuv me?” 
  • Cartoon 2: George Jetson from the popular American TV cartoon “The Jetsons” flies a spaceship while looking at a sign below in a panicked expression. The sign reads, “site of future I-26, coming soon.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two separate scenes of the same scenario with two men face to face in the first scene. One man is asking, “Is it possible that craft beer adds that much to the local revenue stream?” and the other man responding, “Maybe…” In the next scene they are standing beside each other using urinals and one man says, “look what it’s done for the local waste stream.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Asheville, NC Chamber of Commerce committee listens to a man presenting potential advertisements for the city of Asheville. One of the advertisements reads, “Asheville N.C., Great Place to Live…Not Make A Living…” One of the committee members says, “Sorry…It’s not quite what we had in mind…” 
  • Cartoon 5: A houseless man talks to the female police officer currently arresting him saying, “Dude, I wasn’t panhandling! That was performance art!”  
  • Cartoon 6: Barack and Michelle Obama depicted as walking through a forest away from the viewer and holding hands. Captions surrounding the scene read, “In North Carolina, politicians do go hiking, and they bring their soulmates with them…”, “It’s been a pleasure, Mr. & Mrs. Obama”, and “Come back to Asheville soon!” This is in reference to the Obama’s visit to Asheville, NC in 2010. 
  • Cartoon 7: A police officer and a plate of donuts rest at a bar with one of the donuts and the police officer appearing to text each other on mobile phones. The donut is depicted as thinking to itself, “…I must licky you?!?” Apparently reading an incoming text from the smirking police officer.
  • Cartoon 8: Barack Obama looks over the edge of a large boat labeled “Democrats” as politicians jump overboard from the boat. Obama is saying, “They used to just run down the ropes…” with a donkey standing near him.
  • Cartoon 9: Brit Hume looks at the viewer and says, “forgive him-for he knows very well what he has done” with Tiger Woods and a priest praying for Woods on a golf course behind him. This is in possible reference to the 2010 cheating scandal Tiger Woods was involved in. 
  • Cartoon 10: Two people walk by another duo that is frozen in place under ice and depicted as their last action being smoking cigarettes. One of the unfrozen people says, “I’m digging the city’s new public art sculpture!” with the other replying, “Actually, those are just smokers.” 
• Folder 12 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Barack Obama stands at a podium trying to shield himself from bricks and rocks being thrown at him by an elephant and Dick Cheney while he is saying, “Hey, I never said we weren’t at war.”  
  • Cartoon 2: An angry Uncle Sam looks at a grand opening of a restaurant right across the  street from his failing business. The restaurant is called the “Al-Qaeda Cafe” and is opening in Yemen. A sign outside the restaurant reads, “Free I.E.D with coffee.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A storyboard-like depiction of a cat named scout and its owner, Tamela, having a conflict over the cat waking them up in the middle of the night and the owner scaring the cat by pranking it in revenge leading to a war of attrition and a hopeful thought of a peace treaty resolving the matter.
  • Cartoon 4: The earth asks the moon, “I can’t see to shake them off. What do you do for pests?” A larger caption above the scene reads, “Q. there have been a lot of quakes recently. What’s going on?” 
  • Cartoon 5: An off screen voice of a teacher asks, “Alright, class, the next question is about Supreme Court nominees.” Barack Obama is depicted as sitting in a desk with a hand raised saying, “I know! I know!” An elephant sits in a desk next to Obama thinking to itself, “It’s a trick question. There is no right answer…” 
  • Cartoon 6: An off screen voice tells former Asheville, NC city council member Cecil Bothwell, “Come on, Cecil. The council meeting is about to start.” Cecil responds, “Be right there” as he reads and takes notes on a book titled, “Carl Mumpower’s Political Grandstanding for Dummies.”  
  • Cartoon 7: Two men watch Sarah Palin poke a wasps nest labeled, “Tea Party” with a stick with one of the men saying, “Um…could you stop poking them?” A larger caption above the scene reads, “Tea Party leaders try to tone down the group’s image…” 
  • Cartoon 8: A crowd of colonial era villagers chase the Google search engine logo into a forest with captions reading, “Dazzled by the creature’s shiny brightness, and its promises of vast riches, the simple villagers chased it into the dark forest, never to be heard from again…” One of the villagers is saying, “Capture it, before some other villager does.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Former Virginia governor Bob McDonnell in overalls and painting over a confederate flag on a wall with white paint. 
  • Cartoon 10: Glenn Beck walking what appears to be a tightrope with either side of the rope showing pits that are labeled “entertainment” on one side and “politics” on the other side.
• Folder 13 (dated): cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Three separate images that show the grim reaper with scythe as “Death”, A tax form under the caption “taxes”, and a portrayal of an adult dance club with a politician partaking in dubious activities under the caption “another political hypocrisy.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Barack Obama portrayed in stereotypical 70’s clothing, headband, and afro giving a peace sign to the viewer and wearing a t-shirt that reads, “you can’t hug your children with nuclear arms.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Tiger Woods hitting a golf shot out of a bunker on a golf course with only the top of his head and hat visible from the green. The flag on the top of the pole in the hole reads, “Redemption.” The golf ball is just about to make an impact with the green.
  • Cartoon 4: Barack Obama depicted as a small child listening to a classic radio with it saying, “Thrill to the raucous ramblings of that troublesome twosome, Rush and his trusty sidekick, Beck!!” An off screen voice says to Obama, “Barack! Turn that off and get back to your chores!” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two armed men behind a desk for “Milisha sign ups”  look at Osama Bin Laden who is in front of them waiting with one of the men saying to the other, “He says he’s into killing people for the sake of god. I say sign him up!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A trio of imprisoned men chained together at the waist and ankles walk away from the viewer with “BCDC” printed on the back of their jumpsuits. A caption above the scene reads, “no child (molester) left behind.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A caption reads, “Soccer mom’s & Nascar dads are so last election-this year’s voting block: unemployed tea party women.” Three portraits of different women adorned with tea bags stare back at the viewer with one woman wearing a headband reading, “take back America!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man trying on a jacket with fringe material under the right arm with a tag hanging off the sleeve reading, “Buncombe County Republican Party. The fringe material has “Chad Nesbitt” imprinted on it and an off-screen employee’s voice says to the man, “Oh, yes, sir…”fringe” is in!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A closeup of a bird with a target on it and resting on the barrel of a rifle with the captions reading, “Tea party gathering like a “conservative Woodstock…” and “3 days of anger & fear.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A cartoon criticizing the rezoning of a section of land in Asheville, NC between Merrimon Ave and E. Larchmont. 
• Folder 14 (dated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Uncle Sam sits on a couch surrounded by a group of people and is saying to them, “An intervention?! How long will this take? I left my car running outside.” One of the people is holding a book relating to “oil addiction.” A man also wearing a keffiyeh appears in a nearby window looking at the scene. 
  • Cartoon 2: Barack Obama depicted as the Incredible Hulk and choking a figure labeled, “banks” with one hand and in the other is grabbing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who is holding a nuclear missile. Barack is also saying to a retreating figure, “Where you go, Netanyahu?!” Other captions surrounding the scene read, “the mass murderer is always the quiet, helpful neighbor. The biggest anti-gay activist turn out to be gay” and “A calm, reasonable, level-headed approach is always the best solution, -The President.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Uncle Sam stands behind a dotted line with a Mexican man on the other side, creating a divide between the two characters. Uncle Sam is asking the man symbolizing Mexico, “I’m here to help with your drug problem. What can I do?” The Mexican man responds, “Stop using them!” 
  • Cartoon 4: A bird stands on a bird house that has multiple holes and perches complaining of the overly crowded living space to an old man that is looking up to the animal from the ground and listening to it complain. 
  • Cartoon 5: A man with the tusk and the ears of an elephant stands holding a sign saying “no” while also holding a head of a donkey costume he is currently wearing. 
  • Cartoon 6: A pair of hands hold a “Requisition Form” from the city of Asheville, NC that has been denied with the reasoning being, “the health of your bank account is not a legitimate medical expense!! -HR.”
  • Cartoon 7: Randy Neugebauer depicted with the body of a baby and standing in a baby cradle staring at an off screen voice which is saying to him, “You’ll learn some manners young man, or you’ll see some “baby tanning” going on!” 
  • Cartoon 8: Obama crosses the finish line for a race called, “Obamacare” and immediately is about to line up and start another marathon titled, “Just the Beginning Marathon.” A referee with a starting gun aims in the air and says, “On your mark…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A colorful spelling of “Asheville” with a smaller caption under it reading, “any way you google it.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A hand putting a number of daffodil flowers into the barrel of a snow blowing machine with a caption under the hand reading, “truce?” 
  • Cartoon 11: A trio of men labeled, “insurance companies” tell a man pointing them toward the exit door, “We’re not joking! If the health care bill passes, we’re leaving the country!” 
• Folder 15 (undated): Cartoons from 2010
  • Cartoon 1: Two people talking to each other appearing in robes and in a room of arranged furniture. One person says, “No Shui!” while the other replies, “Shui!” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two images of the same scenario of a man replacing lettering on a sign. In one scene the man is seen saying, “Whoops”, with the sign reading, “Jesus resign.” The other scene shows the man walking from the sign with it now reading, “Jesus reigns.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A turtle stands on a small piece of land placed inside a bowl of water and is looking out to the distance. The land is made to look like a deserted island with a campfire and palm tree. 
  • Cartoon 4: Two pieces of toast spread with butter with the substance spelling out text. One piece reads, “have a nice day” and the other, “sorry for your loss.” A larger caption reads, “sentiment toast.”

Box 10:

• Folder 1 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: Barack Obama gives a speech at a podium with him saying, “Today I would like to announce my candidacy for re-election.” A monster behind Obama erupts from underneath the ground and is labeled, “state of the nation.” A larger caption above the scene reads, “the early bird gets the…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A child stands on a ladder with its rungs labeled, “funding for education” and is looking over a wall with the other side reading, “America’s future.” Two elephants are actively destroying the ladder with a chainsaw and ax, targeting the ladder’s legs. 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men walk by a newspaper dispenser with the top headline of the newspaper reading, “today’s headline-more of the same.” One man is asking the other, “Now that March Madness is over, what comes next?” The other man responds, “April apathy.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A closeup of a highway sign reading, “History, North 26.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A rendition of Frankenstein with a scene showing the mad doctor reviving the monster with his assistant Igor beside him. In this rendition the monster is labeled “city council” and is stitched together in an anatomically incorrect manner and the doctor is yelling, “It’s semi-viable!!, it’s semi-viable!!” Igor responds in an unenthusiastic manner, “yes, doctor Mergerstein.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A cartoon showing an animal, presumably a dog or fox in a chicken coop with only its rear end showing from the entrance. The coop is labeled “A.P.D evidence coop.” This is in reference to a 2011 scandal of the Asheville, NC Police Department and complaints relating to the state of disrepair and mess of the evidence room located within the police station. 
  • Cartoon 7: An elephant is depicted asking a farmer, “So, how’s the field doing?” as they look out over an open swath of land with a sign in it reading, “candidates.” The farmer responds, “Watch your step. There’s a lot of …fertilizer…” 
  • Cartoon 8: A portrait of Barack Obama in a serious, contemplative pose thinking to himself, “I wonder if there is an app that can warn you if a microphone is hot…” 
  • Cartoon 9: Donald Trump points out to the crowd from a podium where a man and a woman look up at him. The man is saying, “I’d like to know where his hair was born.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two train conductors talk with one driving and the other shoveling money into the furnace of the steam train. The person shoveling says, “It looks like we’ve run out of momentum.” The train is named, “Health Adventure” and has an additional car that is carrying two children. This is a reference to the now closed Health Adventure experience/gallery in downtown Asheville, NC that was meant to serve as an educational experience concerning the human body and related health topics for youth. 
• Folder 2 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: Former Asheville, NC police chief William Hogan walks off into the distance in police uniform and a piece of toilet paper stuck to the bottom of his left shoe. This in reference to his retirement amidst an investigation concerning missing evidence in an ongoing case in the APD. 
  • Cartoon 2: A cell phone rests on it’s back with a blank screen facing up. The top of the phone is labeled, “iknowwhereyouare.”
  • Cartoon 3: A depiction of multiple conservative politicians walking in a line with the more right the viewer looks, the more descending the politician in line is, ultimately ending with Donald Trump slipping into water. Other politicians in the scene are the likes of John McCain, Sarah Palin, and Mike Huckabee. A larger caption above the scene reads, “devolution.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A close up of the upper half of a passenger plane with the side of the cockpit being labeled with a design reading, “Spirit of Gally” and the plane seeming to be ascending skywards. 
  • Cartoon 5: Franklin Graham, son of famous evangelist Billy Graham, stands looking at the viewer holding a portrait of Barack Obama in a picture frame. He is saying, “I was born in North Carolina” and “Where was this guy born?!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Three scenes of a man talking to the viewer about the changing demographics of Asheville, NC and about how these new “socialist punks” are destroying the city. In the middle of his rant the man is interrupted by a person resembling the very character the man is referencing and is returning the ranting man’s wallet to him that he has dropped. In the last scene the ranting man is depicted as awkward as having just been proven wrong by the actions of the “socialist punk” person.
  • Cartoon 7: A person drops a piece of paper reading, “long form release” on a grave and tombstone engraved as reading, “Birther Nonsense.” A larger caption reads, “RIP.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Donald Trump speaks at a podium holding a piece of paper that has an image of his hairstyle on it and he is saying, “I’m very proud of myself.” A larger caption to the left of the scene reads, “In a move designed to pre-empt any controversies, Donald Trump releases his long form hairclub for men certificate.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two men talk at a cafe with one on a laptop and the other drinking coffee. The man on the computer asks, “How long before someone demands to see Bothwell’s birth certificate?” They are referring to Cecil Bothwell, a local politician in Asheville, NC.
  • Cartoon 10: An elephant looks at a puzzle of a map depicting Asheville, NC but is missing a piece of it with a hole being in the middle. The elephant is also saying, “What missing piece?!” 
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: Two men glance up at a giant brick wall ascending into the sky and over some mountains. One of the men says, “We’ll have to change the motto to walls to match our mountains” and the other adding, “This is so big it could have its own commissioner!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A closeup of two men holding each other’s hand but the viewer only being able to see from their chins down to the waist. The man on the right is wearing a shirt that reads, “We (heart symbol) NY.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men sit at a bar with one of the men saying to the other as he raises his glass, “I’m in retox.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A tricycle that is labeled, “GOP, N.C. Education Funding” is depicted as missing a wheel and unable to move. Note there is the text “M.A.I.N” by Cohen’s signature which is different from the usual lone signature. 
  • Cartoon 5: A large caption reads, “What to do about the rash of child sex abuse cases in WNC…” above a cosmetic container and a sunscreen container that are advertising for their ability to repulse sexual predators. 
  • Cartoon 6: A well dressed man with a puppet sitting on his lap stares at the viewer. A caption above the scene reads, “sometimes I feel like I’m my own ventriloquist.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A large caption reads, “next generation phones” with three different phones pictured. One is a classic landline phone labeled, “dumb phone.” The second is a phone with buttons and a keypad labeled, “all thumbs phone.” The last phone has just a touchscreen that reads, “figured me out yet, nimrod?” and the caption reads, “smartass phone.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two people labeled as, “some downtown merchants”  lookout over a ridgeline of nearby mountains with one of them saying, “looks like we got some weather comin’…” The clouds over the ridgeline are dark and labeled, “Bele Chere.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man thinks to himself, “Good thing I got the memo…” as he stands in a room full of people that are dressed in the same clothes and have similar facial hair as him but different shoes.
  • Cartoon 10: An elephant wearing a hat that reads “God signs” holds a tool case and walks away from a sign they have recently worked on that reads, “Welcome to Asheville, Gateway to the Piedmont. A smaller sign to the right of the larger sign reads, “now entering 10th N.C. congressional district.” 
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: An elephant plates the popular board game “Operation” with the piece displayed as being placed in the patient reading, “Asheville.” The box that contained the board game reads, “Operation! Redistrict.” A caption beside the scene reads, “kill the patient and win the game!!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A pull operated gambling machine with a Native American headdress placed on it thinks to itself, “(expletive) live dealers…” A sign next to the machine reads, “have your picture taken with chief Outtaworka for $10.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A symbol being shown in the sky resembling that of the popular comic book character batman but in this rendition the symbol is bat defecating and has the caption, “crazy” under it. A larger caption to the side reads, “Bachmann, na na na na na na na na, Bachmann.” This is in reference to the republican politician Michelle Bachmann.
  • Cartoon 4: Two men ride in a car with the passenger asking, “What does your new app for downtown parking say?” with the driver responding, “Leave car at home and walk off some of that lard!” 
  • Cartoon 5: A birthday cake with an American flag on it, candles, and fireworks erupting around it with a caption under the cake reading, “Happy 235th.” In reference to the 235th birthday of the U.S. in 2011. 
  • Cartoon 6: An airport traffic worker with a jumpsuit reading, “Moffitt” unplugs the air traffic control tower from its supposed power source. The air traffic control tower is depicted as saying, “This is Asheville Regional no-longer-in control tower. The legislative runway has been cleared for takeover. This is in possible reference to a bill supported by Tim Moffitt in 2011 that advocated for new uses of land and rezoning of areas that affected Asheville Regionals swaths of land.
  • Cartoon 7: A portrait of current Syrian president Bashar-Al Assad staring back at the viewer with the caption “Syrial killer” under the portrait. 
  • Cartoon 8: A man finishes reading Uncle Sam, a bedtime story that is labeled “Weinergate” as Uncle Sam pleads for another story. This is in reference to the 2011 scandal of former United States representative Anthony Weiner regarding sexual misconduct.
  • Cartoon 9: A cashier at a grocery store asks a elderly lady holding a six pack of alcohol, “May I see some I.D., please?” The lady replies, “I want beer. I’m not here to vote!”  
  • Cartoon 10: Three judges labeled “media”, “public”, and “reality” separately offer their points of view on a contestant competing on the show, “American Political Idle.” The media judge hates the contestant, the public judge loves the contestant, and the reality judge is confused at the contestants performance. 
• Folder 5 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: Two men stare at a giant hay pile labeled, “Palin e-mails” with one man being labeled as “media” and having a pitchfork poking at the pile while saying “There’s got to be a needle in here somewhere!” The other man responds with, “Why?! There’s not much of anything else in there.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Barack Obama sits at his desk while contemplating candidates for an appointment for the “Department of Leave and Absence to Get Head Together” while thinking to himself, “So many qualified applicants.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A figure who is presumably Anthony Weiner floats in the ocean with a phone in one hand and appears to have just been thrown overboard by a ship titled, “Democratic party” which is moving away from Weiner. A caption above the scene reads, “ship abandoning a sinking rat.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A mobile home park owner speaks to the viewer saying, “Friend, if the country is going to charge me $50 more a year to operate my mobile home park, I’ll have to pass that cost on to my tenants. Each one. Many times.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A semi-truck displayed as passing a billboard on the road that is saying, “DTDA: don’t tell; didn’t ask.” The truck has the same message on the side of it and a caption above the scene reads, “coming soon (hopefully) to a society near you…” 
  • Cartoon 6: A rubix cube displayed as having arms and legs while standing near some weights and stretching. The caption above the scene reads, “aerobics cube.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two women talk to each other with one holding a phone reading a recently received message saying, “Eww…I just got a text from Anthony Weiner, displaying his…” The other woman responds with, “Colossally bad judgment?” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two men look at a billboard that has a missing rectangular section from it. One man is saying, “Even though condoms are still free in Swain County, it appears that speech is not…” This is in reference to a billboard that was partially erased in Swain County, NC in 2011 because it advertised for free condoms at a nearby Swain County Health Department office. 
  • Cartoon 9: A rear perspective of Sarah Palin’s tour bus traveling down the road with it being displayed as running over a caption reading, “history facts.” Other captions include, “America, thrown under the bus.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A heavy set man walks with phone in hand saying to the caller on the other line, “Can you believe it?! I got cancer from my cell phone!!” 
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A mobile phone depicts a closeup of Anthony Weiner’s crotch area covered with boxers with captions next to the phone reading, “Q. will a public figure get caught with their pants down in a social media gaffe?” and “A. does a politician twit in the woods?” 
  • Cartoon 2: Cecil Bothwell stands in Pack Square Park in Asheville, NC in a fountain with swim trunks on. A sign next to him reads, “no Pack Park bathrooms until after tourist season.” Cecil is thinking to himself, “I don’t know if I can hold it that long…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A caption in the center of the card reads, “If you can’t read this, thank a North Carolina Republican Legislator.” Another caption above the larger caption reads, “bummer sticker.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Karl Rove and Sarah Palin talk side by side with Rove saying, “Sarah Palin doesn’t think the rules apply to her.” Palin responds with a smirk, “Where would I have got that idea, Karl?” 
  • Cartoon 5: American poet and musician Gil Scott Heron sits watching a TV that has the popular news outlet “Aljazeera” and its logo displayed on it. Heron is thinking to himself, “Whattya know? The revolution was televised…” 
  • Cartoon 6: An outline of a 2D square with an offset frowning face with no nose designed as a logo with the caption, “U R done TV” under it.
  • Cartoon 7: Two elephants look at a list of conservative politicians looking for candidacy for the 2012 presidential election. One is asking, “This is the best we can do?!!” as the other elephant responds, “I know…That’s a lot of evils from which to choose the lesser of…” 
  • Cartoon 8: Politician John Edwards depicted as chewing his own foot off in order to get out of a bear trap labeled, “DOJ indictment.” A caption besides the scene reads, “John Edwards’s experience as a trial lawyer should prove invaluable…” 
  • Cartoon 9: An opened pamphlet reading, “she’s a fraud” while the caption above it reads, “latest Palin tell-all book.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A man labeled, “brick and mortar restaurants” is depicted as being in a standoff with a woman standing next to a food truck. A caption beside the scene reads, “downtown showdown.”
• Folder 7 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: Barack Obama is depicted as appraising a coin in an appraisal or pawn shop type storefront and saying, “Sorry, kid…I’m not interested unless it’s pre-1967” to a frustrated Benjamin Netanyahu. This is in reference to the 2011 meeting between the two leaders concerning Obama advocating for Israel to alter its borders to match its pre-1967 borders to prevent further conflict with Palestine.
  • Cartoon 2: An elephant sits in a reclining chair while holding a remote and wearing a hat that reads, “Buncombe GOP.” The elephant is saying, “So Moffitt got his bill passed, and I’m finally going to get some representation! Now all we need is a bill that lets me vote from here.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A newscaster speaks to the viewer saying, “In tonight’s top story, it’s business as usual in Washington after the rapture” as a screen behind them depicts a person in a suit and holding a briefcase being chained down to the ground by their ankles, preventing them from floating to the clouds.
  • Cartoon 4: A pantless Newt Gingrich calls out to his wife, Callista Gingrich, as he stands in a bedroom filling with black smoke. He is saying, “Callista! Do I have any pants that aren’t on fire?” 
  • Cartoon 5: A depiction of 4 line values separately labeled from descending order, “unemployment”, “job fair”, “public assistance”, and “extras casting for The Hunger Game.” A larger caption above the line values read, “social geometry, chapter 3: line values.” An oval picture of Roman emperor Nero playing a fiddle in a burning landscape sits in the corner of the card as well.
  • Cartoon 6: A father and daughter look at a partially deforested peak of a mountain with the daughter asking, “Daddy, why is the mountain sad?” with the father replying, “I guess they don’t have any money to restore it, either…” A sign leading to the mountain top reads, “The Cliffs, out of money” and depicts a future golf course to be built at the location. 
  • Cartoon 7: An elephant winnowing a group of republican politicians, separating some politicians from the others. A caption beside the scene reads, “winnowing the chaff from the…” Winnowing is a filtering process commonly used in grain production. 
  • Cartoon 8: Newt Gingrich’s frowning face depicted as floating in a bowl of water with captions around the owl reading, “Bobbing for candidates”, and “Who’s floated to the top this week?” An off screen voice is depicted as saying, “this is one bad apple!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A birthday cake reading, “Happy Birthday Israel!” and stars of David decorated on it is targeted by incoming missiles instead of having candles placed in it. 
  • Cartoon 10: Politician Mike Huckabee’s arm and hand holds a card reading, “I will not seek the republican nomination for president this year.” A bracelet around his wrist reads, “WWSD” standing for “What Would Sanity Do?” 
• Folder 8 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A cartoon bipedal coyote holding a bag labeled, “Newman” says to a bipedal cartoon dog, “Morning, Bill” while interacting with a device attached to a tree. The bipedal dog responds while facing the wrong direction, “Morning, Brownie.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A person reads a newspaper article that is titled, “Medians=safer.” The person is then depicted as thinking to themselves about a closed city with a wooden spiked fence surrounding it with the word “medians=” being placed above the fictional scenario.
  • Cartoon 3: A man in a food truck passes another man holding a sign reading, “We are the 99%” and saying, “I hope you guys have better luck than we did” to the food truck. This is presumably in context of Asheville, NC 
  • Cartoon 4: A man and woman talk to each other with the man saying, “Sheriff Davis in Henderson County says that he suffers from manic bi-polar disorder.” The woman responds, “Good cop, bad cop?” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man looks down at a handful of “Christmas bills” while saying, “What the (expletive) was I thinking Wednesday.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A flower sticks out a mound of snow on the ground with words imprinted in the surrounding snow such as “school snow days”, “cabin fever”, and “power outages.” This is highlighting the snowfall and issues surrounding it in Asheville, NC in 2011.
  • Cartoon 7: A male dancer labeled, “NCAA” dances with a person that has the UNCA bulldog mascot for a head and a human body. A caption next to the scene says, “shall we dance?” 
  • Cartoon 8: A casino card dealer holding a deck of cards has a stare down with an angry pull operated gambling machine. The machine is leaning forward and aggressively saying, “Yeah, whatever…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A self portrait of David Cohen drawing intensely at his desk while thinking to himself, “Slow down, Herman! I can’t keep up!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A Japanese adult and child stand on a beach with a Japanese flag between them as they stare at a giant tsunami labeled, “prayers.” The adult is depicted as saying, “I hope this one is just as powerful…” 
• Folder 9 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: Former republican politician Herman Cain displayed popping out of a toaster headfirst with a surprised reaction. 
  • Cartoon 2: A person labeled, “Fraser”  holds a noose and video camera while filming a houseless person writing a haiku. The haiku reads, “…occupy haiku……internet. Playground for the I.D. Career killer for eternity…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A caption reads, “Dumb as a…” while three images depicting a rock, a tree, and a presumable male politician thinking to himself, “The department of…of…um..what..?” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man and woman talk at a table while the man shuffles through papers. The woman asks, “We won’t be able to buy much this year, local or otherwise, will we?” The man responds, “Black Friday has been trumped by slack payday.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Three separate images that all relate to the renaming of the venue formerly known as the Asheville Civic Center. One image mocks its renaming if it was called the “City Council Centre” with a smaller caption under the title reading, “where it always hits the fan.” The second image shows a ticket with supposed sports teams playing at the venue, the team’s names signals towards a battle between the progressives and the conservatives in Asheville, NC. The final image shows the venue being named, “Angry_Residents.com Arena.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A U.S. postal truck drives away down a road while the smoke from the exhaust spells out, “jobs” and “longer delivery times.” A sign nearby on the side of the road reads, “Greenville 57” and a larger caption reads, “postal going.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Former mayor of Ashville, NC Terry Bellamy serving a turkey that is labeled, “sale of naming rights process” to a couple waiting for dinner. Bellamy is saying to the couple, “Happy Thanksgiving Asheville!! And here’s the turkey!” 
  • Cartoon 8: The rear perspective of local politician Jan Davis in a football uniform that reads, “Davis, 34”  but no helmet on. Davis is holding three of his fingers up while saying, “We’re #3! We’re #3!” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two images separated from each other depicting two different scenes. In one scene, a man is getting punched in the back of the head with the caption, “What is crazier than a liberal councilman getting hit in the back of the head by his liberal ex-campaign manager?” In the second scene a man works a computer while the caption reads, “The conservative online commenters, conservatively applauding and cheering more.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A man looks up at a sign outside of a venue formerly known as the Asheville Civic Center that reads, “U.S. Cellular Center.” The scene displays the venue as being rebranded and the man is saying, “How come we didn’t know about this until it was practically a done deal?” 
• Folder 10 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A person holds a phone with an app thumbnail displayed on the screen of a toilet with the lid half risen. The person is saying, “Yeah, it’s a new social media app I just downloaded. “It’s called there goes your career”.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A graveyard with multiple headstones of people who have made plunders of themselves on social media and other forms of news outlets locally and nationally such as Lynn Fraser and Janet Moore. A caption under the scene reads, “social media memorial gardens, “resting in pieces.”  
  • Cartoon 3: A caption reads, “one way to retire a debt” as the interior of a bathroom is displayed with a sign above the sink reading “Welcome to the new Pack Park restroom. Your options: Soap…$1 a squirt, Toilet paper…$2 a sheet, Water (cold)…$1, Water (hot)…$2, Flush…we got it!”
  • Cartoon 4: A man working on his broken down truck which is labeled, “Asheville economy” is offered a battery jump by a man holding jumper cables which are attached to solar panels behind him.
  • Cartoon 5: Two images of Herman Cain with one being a portrait of Cain looking at the viewer. The other image shows Cain being dragged down from a hole in the ground with him reaching up to the presidential seal hung on a wall while he thinks to himself, “This hole keeps getting deeper…” A caption that spans both images read, “Cain and unable.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man talks to former Asheville, NC city council candidate Mark Cates, telling him “It isn’t so much about what you want to do; It’s more about what you don’t want them to do.”  
  • Cartoon 7: presumably former president of Asheville-Buncombe Technical College Hank Dunn speaks at a podium to reporters while saying, “Oops, almost forgot…! We also need money to hire teachers to teach in these new and refurbished buildings.” A reporter asks Dunn, “Adjunct, or full-time with benefit?” Dunn dodges the question by replying, “Next question.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A caption reading “from a tiny acorn, a mighty oak grows” sits above a penny with a quarter section of it depicted as being cut out from it. Another caption reading, “…if that is actually where you put the fertilizer” sits beside a fully grown oak tree labeled, “A-B Tech trained workforce.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A giant gorilla is tied up on a platform which is also on a stage for a crowd to observe. A belt is tied around the animal that reads, “COPA” while a sign off to the side reads, “The Amazing Mission.” Two men dressed very nicely look up at the scene with one saying, “This is one hillbilly that  hopes those straps are strong!” This is a possible reference to the NC COPA agreement felt locally with Mission Hospital.
  • Cartoon 10: A group of people in a life boat float away from a sinking bank in the ocean named, “Blue Ridge Savings Bank.” A person in the boat is asking “Is captain Taylor going down with the ship?” with Taylor responding, “No, I’m not.” This is in reference to Charles Taylor, a former representative of North Carolina and owner of the sinking bank which in real life was taken from him over accusations of violations and wrong doing.
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: Two women holding a sign saying, “we do, full equality under the law” while standing and looking at the register of deeds, needing a license for marriage. The register of deeds is saying to them, “we don’t, sorry.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Three people hold signs while facing the viewer. One sign reads, “We are the 90%” The second sign reads, “Who didn’t vote in the city council primary.” The third sign reads, “But who makes 90% of the complaints” while the person points to the viewer.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A large cat sitting while staring at the viewer is saying, “I’ve never been on any street named Wall, and what the (expletive) is a bank?” 
  • Cartoon 4: A depiction of an eagle gliding through the air with a caption below the animal reading, “like it or not, it can’t fly without a left and right wing…” 
  • Cartoon 5: A woman and her child in stroller walk by a polling station in Asheville, NC but there is no path to the station through the grass field separating the woman and the station. The woman is saying, “Mommy would like to vote, but she needs a sidewalk to get there.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A frowning man walks by a storefront with a TV in the window displaying Sarah Palin on the screen. Palin is saying, “I’ve decided that the publicity and media obsession associated with stringing out my decision is more valuable to me than the scrutiny and probable calamity of being president.”  
  • Cartoon 7: A bowl of salad and a container of oil and vinegar dressing sit next to each other with the caption, “Politics and religion are like oil and vinegar; even though it never really works, people keep trying to blend them together.” The container of oil and vinegar is displayed as saying, “It’s one carrot, one tomato, not one carrot and another carrot.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man operates a computer with the website Facebook displayed on the screen. The man appears angered with one of his hands in the air saying, “Arghh!! Why can’t they leave well enough alone?! It was fine!!! Why change it!!!” The man’s daughter is nearby and responds to his outburst, “Daddy, you’re starting to sound like granpa.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Presumably former mayor of Asheville, NC Terry Bellamy looks down at a list of proclamations she has to sign. The ones already sign include advocating for elderly citizens, animal control and overpopulation, and honoring Asheville’s crafts scene; Yet the one not signed is one concerning advocating for gay pride. The list is titled, “list of symbolic, mostly meaningless Asheville city proclamations.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A child sprays a man labeled, “Wall St”  with a water gun that is labeled “occupy” while the man responds with “Is that all you’ve got kid?!” The man is unaware of a giant tsunami wave behind him about to hit him, the wave is labeled “public sentiment.” This is in reference to the nationally recognized economic protest in 2011 known as the “Occupy” movement prominent in Asheville, NC and New York.
• Folder 12 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A closeup of a man’s hand as it holds a bag labeled, “ABC” with bottles of liquor, a toy car, and NFL tickets sticking out from the top of the bag. A larger caption above the bag reads, “bringing some work home from the office…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man dressed as a tourist balances an upside down pyramid labeled, “economy” while two people look on. One person says, “Grim reality as street art?” 
  • Cartoon 3: Uncle Sam depicted as walking while throwing a sign reading, “don’t ask, don’t tell” behind him. While he is doing this he is saying, “Don’t care.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man and David Cohen himself look up at some leaves on a tree during Fall with the man asking David, “Isn’t this kinda pointless in black & white?” David responds, “Tough times for newspapers.” A caption above the scene reads, “Cohen’s annual fall color cartoon.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A gay couple looks at an elephant labeled, “NC GOP” and another man labeled, “religious right” holding each other. One of the men from the gay couple is asking the other pair, “Hey, if you guys can be married, why can’t we?!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Former state senator James Forrester’s head depicted in a smelly pool of liquid labeled, “cesspool of intolerance.” A caption under the scene reads, “wallowed be thy name.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Uncle Sam is seen with rolled up sleeves, showing scabs on his arm in the shape of the twin towers and an inscription that reads, “9/11, anniversary hype.” Uncle Sam is thinking to himself, “If I stop picking these scabs maybe they will heal quicker…” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man looks at a road sign that indicates he is about to enter Asheville, NC. There are multiple smaller signs attached to the original sign that display the nicknames given to the city of Asheville such as, “All-American City”, “Tree City”, and, “Paris of the South.” The man is saying, “Let’s stop here, honey!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A caption reads, “signature moments” showing four different people of varying ages and the respective terrorist attacks they have experienced in their lifetimes. The oldest age shows a elderly white man at 70 years and experienced Pearl Harbor followed by a black man at 43 years who experienced the assassination of Martin Luther King and that is followed by a girl at 10 years who witnessed 9/11. The final person is a very young boy, proposing the question what will be this person’s attack they witness.
  • Cartoon 10: A cityscape of New York City showing many buildings and the New World Trade Center rising above the rest of the skyline with the sun in the background. 
• Folder 13 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A man sitting in a reclining chair labeled, “jobless” mutters, “Whichever……I’m free…” as he stares at a TV. The TV reads, “Headline one: GOP denies job speech date; asks president “to choose another”….” 
  • Cartoon 2: Presumably Asheville, NC politician Carl Mumpower walks by a food truck that is mimicking the form of a breast and is titled, “Mama’s milkmobile.” A sign near the food truck reads, “no shirt, service!!” This is in reference to Mumpowers efforts to fight nudity oriented protests in Asheville, NC.  
  • Cartoon 3: Rick Perry gives a thumbs up to the viewer while saying “Believe it!” as a larger caption above him reads, “political climate change.” A scale over Perry’s left shoulder indicates that whatever it is measuring has reached the mark of “crazier.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A caption reads, “Bele Chere gets redistricted…” with three different zones drawn out with three different people in each. The first zone shows a man with a bullhorn and a speaker saying, “You and your children will burn in hell!!!.” The second zone has a topless woman saying to the viewer, “Free the bust; it’s only just!!” The third zone has Asheville, NC politician Carl Mumpower thinking to himself, “Let’s see-who should I report for child abuse?” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two marathon race directors in the form of dressed elephants talk before the start of the “2012 Presidential Marathon.” One elephant says, “I thought for sure that Sarah would sign up for the race.” The other elephant responds, “Not enough prize money.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A caption reads, “the perfect P & Z candidate” as the rest of the card is blank except for the caption in the bottom right corner, “actual candidate will, no doubt, differ from one depicted.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man and a woman sit at a table reading a newspaper and drinking coffee. The man says, “Planning and zoning is looking for candidates who embrace the principles of smart growth, green development, and private investment that enriches Asheville, not individuals.” The woman responds, “What moron would want that headache?” The man replies, “An oxymoron, apparently.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Dick Cheney talks at a podium with only one elephant in the crowd. The podium is labeled, “Today’s reading, Dick Cheney, “in my time.” Cheney is saying, “The harsh, actinic glare reflected off of the glistening water stream, and the teardrops…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man with a camera looks at a sign on the Blue Ridge Parkway that reads, “the city you left behind to get away from overlook, elev: 3892.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A food truck operator takes the order of a presumed customer asking them, “Hello! What would you like today?” The customer responds, “Your parking space.” The food truck is labeled, “Downtown Food Trucks.” 
• Folder 14 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A man sits in a chair at a flea market sale that does prohibit the sale of animals as indicated by a sign. The man is holding a leash attached to a small distressed looking breed of dog and the man is saying, “Relax. I wouldn’t have got much for you.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A bear looks at the viewer and says “Trails and campgrounds because of bears? How about closing some pits!?” as they appear trapped by high concrete walls. 
  • Cartoon 3: A caption reads, “careers fundamentally altered by the obesity epidemic, no.31 in a series” as three obese ballet dancers argue about how they are to continue their routine if they cannot physically meet the demands of the job.
  • Cartoon 4: Local Asheville, NC politician Tim Moffitt is depicted as giving another man a back tattoo that reads, “Buncombe County, how we elect our commissioner.” Moffitt is saying as he gives the tattoo, “While it may be painful and expensive, I believe this tattoo needed to be ..”altered”…
  • Cartoon 5: A deserted island in the shape of a man’s body with a full face, torso, and partially showing limbs. A coconut tree is placed in the crotch area mimicking a phallic member with a man sitting under the tree. 
  • Cartoon 6: Two images relating to the previously mentioned cartoon relating to a fallen firefighter in the line of duty with one man seated at a desk with a surprised expression and a caption above him reading, “retrofitting a pre-code building with sprinklers…” The second image is of a tombstone and a flag at half mast on a flag with the caption beside it reading, “a firefighters life…priceless..” 
  • Cartoon 7: Uncle Sam struggles to hold up what appears to be a horizontally placed construction beam labeled, “an effective, bi-partisan congress.” A larger caption above the scene reads, “doubt ceiling.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man looks around as the word “neighborhood watch” is placed on his face mimicking glasses as his eyes poke through the two consecutive O’s in the word. A larger caption above the scene reads, “eyes wide open, Asheville.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A firefighter from the Asheville Fire Department in full uniform looks down at a lone flame burning on the ground with the caption above it reading, “The fire that can’t be put out, Captain Jefferey Scott Bowen.” This is in reference to an incident that led to the firefighter in question to lose his life while battling a fire in a highrise in Asheville, NC. 
  • Cartoon 10: A cowboy jumps over a hill while being detached from his horse in midair mimicking stunts performed by motocross riders done in the popular action-sports TV show “X-Games.” A caption above the scene reads, “The first X-Games.” 
• Folder 15 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A politician looks down at a baby in a car seat and says to them, “Okay, kid, we got you born. You’re on your own now…you’re welcome.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A single piece of paper reading, “Proposed Amendment to the N.C. Constitution: Marriage will be defined as the union between one politician and one special interest group.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two elephants with baggage walk into the territory of an angry donkey while saying, “Get over it, pal! We’re here, and we might be here for 10 years!” a caption between the animals reads, “gerrymandered redistricting in Buncombe County.” A larger caption above the scene reads, “The next wave of unwanted immigrants.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Michele Bachmann speaks at a podium indicating she is running for the presidency while Uncle Sam holds his head in pain thinking to himself, “Now I’m starting to get a migraine…” 
  • Cartoon 5: Three portraits of the same sweating man talking to the viewer, each time saying something different. He says collectively across the portraits, “It’s not the heat”, “It’s not the humidity”, and “It’s the idiot whiners who wished for this back in January!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Moses and former president of Egypt Hosni Mubarak dressed in pharaoh garb talking as a voice comes from off scene saying, “Hey! Let us all go!” 
  • Cartoon 7: Four images of the different types of Asheville clouds with them being cirrus, stratus, altocumulus, and cumulonimbi. The cumulonimbi cloud is saying to other louds nearby, “Not in my part of the sky, pal! Beat it!” 
  • Cartoon 8: Three people stand in line near a sign that reads, “employment security commission benefits.” One man in line says to the viewer, “What I mean to say was I wouldn’t work for anyone named les…” 
  • Cartoon 9: Sarah Palin depicted with a dog body and barking as two people talk over her barking above her. One person asks, “Does she even know what she is yapping about anymore?!!” with the other person responding, “Did she ever?” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two scenes of the same scenario involving two ravens and a squirrel. In one scene the three animals are seen eating in harmony in a field nearby a road. The next scene shows the two ravens eating the remains of the recently ran over squirrel in the road. A large caption above the scenes read, “Life.”

Box 11:

• Folder 1 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A man uses a bank drive through system but watches the tube system that is used to transport information between the drive through and the bank shoot his information into a hole labeled, “bad real estate loans.” The bank is located in Asheville, NC. 
  • Cartoon 2: A human heart runs on a treadmill while presenting a peace sign and saying, “Viva la resolution!!!” 
  • Cartoon 3: A woman and child walk by a man holding a sign reading, “LGBT: equality for all.” The woman explains to the naive child the acronym stands for, “Life’s great big tent, honey.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two birds in sunglasses talk in a nest on a tree branch in front of a local grocery store. One bird asks, “Get the worm?!? I can’t see the worm!!!” This is due to the blinding lights in the grocery store parking lot. 
  • Cartoon 5: A person is depicted as having a gun holster on their torso under their arm but instead of a gun it is the state of Texas with the University of Texas’s logo printed on the holster. A caption beside the scene reads, “Conceal’ em, horns!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A Dr named “Dr. Developer” consults a patient that has a large pill labeled, “Caledonia” stuck in their throat. The doctor is saying, “Two slightly smaller pills should make it easier to swallow.” This is in possible reference to the multiple developing projects using the name Caledonia in Asheville, NC. 
  • Cartoon 7: A loaf of bread is seen rising high above the cooking container it is placed in and is labeled, “democracy.” A caption under the scene reads, “the middle yeast.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A caption reads, “the biggest story of 2010” as a family is depicted together looking at the family with the father saying, “…That we made it to 2011.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A person is seen falling off of their surfboard after a large wave takes them out, the board is labeled, “airport board.” A larger caption beside the scene reads, “Hawaii Five-No.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A caption reads, “Culture Clash”  as a hunter with a gun argues with a well dressed lady. The hunter is saying, “I been huntin’ bear on this land for 30 years!!” as the lady responds, “No more killing innocent animals on what is now my property!!” A bear is seen running away behind the pair thinking to itself, “Exit stage right!” 
• Folder 2 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: Representative Peter King stares at the viewer with the words, “Muslim Americans are Americans!” going in one ear and out the other, not being listened to. A caption below the king reads, “hearings, but not listening.” This is in reference to King’s controversial statements concerning Muslim Americans. 
  • Cartoon 2: Two elephants sit at a table in flower covered shirts while Barack Obama does a hula dance in a hula outfit next to them. One of the elephants is saying about the dance, “It says here that the story is told with the hands.” The other elephant responds, “Big deal. Back home we tell the story with the finger.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Three images showing three different uses for solar panels and the solar power they produce. One image shows a solar panel to warm a latte, another image shows solar panels attached to a man’s hat used to charge his phone, and the last image shows a solar powered, light up church marquee. 
  • Cartoon 4: Two chickens discuss with each other, one is saying, “An NFL lockout means millions in lost revenue and no football this season. Are there any positives to this?!” The other chicken responds, “No concussions and we keep our wings.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A crosshair of a hunting scope is seen with the word “sanity” being aimed upon. 
  • Cartoon 6: A metal box with a small rectangular window is guarded by a secret service agent and other armored guards while a voice says from within the box, “I’d like to thank you for coming to my congress on your corner.” This is in possible reference to the 2011 mass shooting that took place at a political event under the same title in Arizona where former congresswoman Gabby Giffords had an attempt made on her life as well. 
  • Cartoon 7: A man stuck waist deep on the sidewalk in snow calls out to the sky with both hands raised and says, “Hey! How now, brown plow?!” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two employees of the Swain County (NC) Department of Social Services discuss in an office space as they look out a window. A man says, “I hope that wasn’t the baby and the bathwater…” A woman responds, “Nope, just some board members and our credibility…” 
  • Cartoon 9: Newt Gringrich salutes the American flag with his pants around his ankles and heart covered boxers exposed.
  • Cartoon 10: Mummar Gaddafi seen trapped and suspended in the air by a fly trap labeled, “revolution.” A caption beside the scene reads, “no fly zone.” 
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1:Two men at a bar look at a TV depicting Sarah Palin winking with a caption under her reading, “Palin travels to India; minimum speaking fee $100,000. One of the men responds to the caption with, “Maybe she can bring back 100,000 jobs instead.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A checkout line of an Ingles grocery store with the checkout computer screen reading, “Robert P. Ingle, 1933-2011, entrepreneur-philanthropist” commemorating the passing of Ingles founder. 
  • Cartoon 3: Former mayor of Ashville, NC Terry Bellamy having dinner and talking to her waiter saying, “Thank you for serving me! You wouldn’t believe the grief I’ve been getting because of my…” The waiter cuts her off by responding, “I’m only working tonight because I can’t be with my domestic partner in the hospital.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Politician Mike Huckabee playing the bass guitar while singing, “Obama, Kenya see me?! Obama, Kenya feel me?! Kenya hear me?!!” Two men off to the side are confused due to Huckabee’s inability to sing the correct lyrics. 
  • Cartoon 5: An exterior view through the windows of a plane of two pigs enjoying their flight with one of the pigs saying, “Maybe now we’ll get a rebate on our water bill for dirty water…” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two men working at the “Foreign Desk” in North Africa look at a computer with one man asking “Gadhafi, qaddafi, khadafy…! What does spell check say?” The other man responds, “Ruthless dictator.” 
  • Cartoon 7: The cultural monument in Egypt known as the Sphinx operates a giant computer which is displaying “power to the people” on the screen.
  • Cartoon 8: Sarah Palin reloads an artillery war cannon while looking at the viewer while saying, “Don’t retreat; Stand tall!” Another caption beside the scene reads, “reload redux.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two men walk up a hill to a medical cannabis dispensary with one of the men saying, “Dude, it’s going to be a big part. We better get another ounce.” The other man responds, “Let’s try something different this time!” A caption above the scene reads, “if North Carolina privatizes liquor sales, how will it make up the lost income?”   
  • Cartoon 10: Food in a pot is boiling with five pieces of food being labeled, “Tunisia”, “Egypt”, “Lebanon”, “Israel”, and, “Gaza.” A caption above the pot reads, “boiling while everybody is watching.” 
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A man, woman, and child walk by a man leaning against a wall in an alleyway pointing and urging them down the alleyway saying, “Hey man, you need parking? Non-metered, minimal walking; I’ll give you a great price.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A police officer writes on a notepad while leaning against their squad car and looks at two signs in front of them. One sign reads, “welcome to beer city USA!” and the other reads, “9 microbreweries and counting!!” 
  • Cartoon 3: A closeup of a mud flap on a car that has a cowboy with dual revolvers in hand and an angry expression on their face with a caption that reads, “back off.” A caption beside the mud flap reads, “Yosemite heath.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A portrait of a man with an angel and a demon on each shoulder. The angel is saying, “We believe that there is a problem with downtown parking.” The man himself is saying, “There ain’t enough of it!” The demon is saying, “…That’s free, and right next to where I’m shopping.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two people in medical scrubs and masks run with both holding a live organ transplant box but it is labeled in the scene as, “live conscience.” A larger caption above the scene reads, “The transplant Cheney really needs.” In reference to former politician Dick Cheney. 
  • Cartoon 6: Two heavily armed men talk while the environment around them indicates a mass shooting is taking place with one of the men saying, “After you; I insist!” The other man responds with, “Please, I went first last time.” A caption above the scene reads, “the new civility.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A close up of a school lunch tray that has each section of the tray labeled for certain foods such as “whole grains, fresh fruit, vegetables, no trans-fats, and skim milk.” One section of the tray also reads, “some kind of supervised physical education!!” A caption above the scene reads, “new dietary guidelines for schools.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man and a woman stand next to each other while looking at two men who are standing on boxes, one man has on a shirt that reads, “words” while the other man is wearing a shirt reading, “actions.” Both men are screaming while the woman says to the non-yelling man beside her, “It’s getting hard to tell who is actually louder.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two people walk side by side with one of them reading a newspaper and saying, “It looks like, by next summer, Pack Square Park will have a pavilion with public restrooms!” Some bushes next to the couple think to themselves, “Yay!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A large caption reads, “with involuntary annexation soon to be off the table, Asheville seeks alternative revenue sources…” A sign posted on a wooden pole sits next to the caption and reads, “36,900 family yard sale, Saturday 8-1, Sunday 9-1, lots of great stuff!!! Including garbage pickup, police protection, sewer, and more!!!” 
• Folder 5 (dated): Cartoon from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A camel is about to take a bite of a pre-bloomed flower labeled, “democracy.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A window being covered by a sunshade that is depicted as reading, “North Carolina open meeting exceptions” with a man peeking under the shade with a suspicious look on his face. A circle in the top right of the scene is labeled, “sunshine week.” Sunshine week is a reference to a movement that reinforces the importance of the public’s access to government documents and proceedings. 
  • Cartoon 3: Two people sit at a table with one drinking coffee and the other reads a newspaper. The newspaper is depicted as reading, “Volvo leaving, offers to take local employees with them, average salary: $82,400.” The woman is saying, “Hey for $82,400, I’d consider becoming a Yankee…” with the person reading the paper responding, “Bless your heart…” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two images of a scenario surrounding the 2011 controversy of controversial tweets made by the late comedian Gilbert Gottfried about a natural disaster that occurred in Japan the same year. In one image a man is jumping off a cliff with the caption saying, “look before you leap.” In the other image it shows Gottfried being attacked by a duck with a caption above the scene reading, “think before you tweet.” Gottfried is depicted as thinking to himself, “I need some supplemental unemployment insurance…” This is in reference to Gottfried’s firing from being the voice for the mascot of the insurance company Aflac.
  • Cartoon 5: Two images of nuclear power plant smokestacks with one stack being depicted as reading, “nuclear” and the ground beneath it cracking. The other image shows a smokestack reading, “unclear” and spewing dark black smoke into the sky.
  • Cartoon 6: A town crier walks by a couple yelling, “..Hear ye, Hear ye..” The man from the couple he is walking by says, “I get most of my news from a mobile device” and points to the passing crier.”
  • Cartoon 7: A picture of 5 family members all being hugged by the biggest smiling family member in the middle which is labeled as, “Asheville.” The other family members are frowning and are labeled separately as, “Swannanoa”, “Biltmore Lake”, “Leicester”, and “Royal Pines.” A caption under the photo reads, “future reunion?” 
  • Cartoon 8: A elderly man depicted in stereotypical 70’s counterculture clothes living in a retirement home. The man is cheering as he reads a TV news report reading, “Mideast revolution, fueled by under-30 protestors.” A nearby nurse says to the man, “Watch your blood pressure, Mr. G.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Sarah Palin depicted as lazily resting and eating on a couch whole three elephants discuss her failing presidential campaign efforts. One elephant is saying, “Now she says the presidency would be a step down for her…” Another elephant responds, “I can see your irrelevance!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A first person perspective of a person playing a card game with chips, presumably Barack Obama. The cards are labeled, “Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Libya.” The chips are labeled, “lives, $, prestige.” The person is depicted as thinking to themselves, …Something good…something good…” 
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A map of Buncombe County depicting medieval castles laid on top of the map’s landscape with the castles labeled as different areas within the county such as Hominy, Avery Creek, and Fairview. Asheville is located in the middle with the people in their castle saying, “What is their demand?” with another person in the Asheville castle responding, “The right to demand.” Every castle that is not Asheville seems to be looking in the direction of Asheville in an unsavory demeanor. 
  • Cartoon 2: Two images of the same scenario of men buying a ticket for an airplane to India. In one image a man is dressed in stereotypical 70s counterculture attire saying, “One way to Bombay, please. I’m seeking enlightenment” with a caption above the scene reading, “then.” In the next image the man is saying, “One way to Mumbai, please. I’m seeking employment” with the caption above the scene reading, “now.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A figure named J.T Foxpaughn depicted as showing his various forms of ID in his wallet. One is a regular voter I.D card depicting him as being registered in Raleigh, NC, and the other is a “North Carolina Term Limit ID.” This ID depicts him as a representative of the state and also registered in Raleigh, NC. J.T is saying, “This is my North Carolina voter ID card. It’s to prevent voter fraud. And this is my North Carolina term limit card. It’s to prevent frauding the voters.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Local politician singing a song to a crowd of people gathered at his campaign event for his running of the U.S. congress. The song’s lyrics are sung to the “melody of the lumberjack song by Monty Python.”  The lyrics are “I’m an atheist, and that’s okay-you believe in god; me? No way! I’m an atheist, and I don’t pray-but in 2012, I pray for a yea!!” 
  • Cartoon 5: A dart board with the various rings being labeled as countries such as, “Yemen, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.” Libya is the bullseye of the dart board however and is the only target that has darts on it. A larger caption under the scene reads, “tunnel vision.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A giant two-faced bust of Newt Gringrich is depicted with two men observing and commenting on it. One man is saying, “Is this from his Libyan period?” The other man responds, “Actually, it goes back a lot farther than that.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man holding a broom and waving it as if to scare something off while looking at the viewer and saying, “Shoo-ler!!” There is a possibility that the man is politician Cecil Bothwell.
  • Cartoon 8: A closeup of a person’s dress shoes standing on ground that is labeled, “Libya”. A tag on the shoes reads, “CIA” while a larger caption above the scene reads, “wingtips on the ground.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A elderly couple in a car drive by a billboard that has been converted into a giant digital clock. The man driving the car says, “I much preferred the old analog billboards.” 
  • Cartoon 10: An elephant deconstructs a sign that formerly read, “Planned Parenthood” on a building and stares at a mother of 3 kids who is saying to the elephant while holding a condom, “Wait!! I just wanted to learn how to use one of these!” 
• Folder 7 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A depiction of what is presumably the body of Osama Bin Laden wrapped in sheets and floating to the bottom of the ocean while another image shows Barack Obama walking up an ascending line on a chart. This is in reference to the assassination of Osama Bin Laden by U.S. forces in 2011 and the positive increase of Obama’s public approval rate after the event. 
  • Cartoon 2: Newt Gringrich standing in the shallow end of a pool looking out to the distance blankly. A caption above the scene reads, “the even shallower end of the candidate pool.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Tim Moffitt is depicted as walking in regal attire with crown and scepter past two people with a flag bearer behind him reading, “King Tim.” One of the people watching him walk by is asking, “Did he ask if he could be king?” with the other person responding, “He didn’t ask about anything.” 
  • Cartoon 4: David Cohen drawing at his desk depicting him sketching a new cartoon of a person in a suit and tie but with a smudged area surrounding the head indicating it has been erased. David is saying, “I thought I’d figured out a way to draw the president without offending anyone’s sensibilities…now they’re calling me an erasist.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Barack Obama is depicted as giving a speech and saying, “We’re hoping that, by interviewing the wives, we can shine a light into a very dark place. Questions?” to a reporter. The reporter responds with, “Bin Laden’s wives, or Newt’s?” 
  • Cartoon 6: A resident of Buncombe County, NC standing next to a sign reading, “Raleigh 248 mi” and saying to the viewer, “I want representation on the board of commissioners! I don’t need somebody from somewheres else telling me what I have to do!!” 
  • Cartoon 7: A bumper sticker on the rear of a car with a towing hitch reading, “what if they had a debate and nobody came?” 
  • Cartoon 8: A body wrapped up in sheets is depicted as being recently thrown overboard of a military aircraft carrier in the ocean. The water in the ocean is labeled as reading, “no thanks” as the body makes an impact. This is in reference to the burial at sea of Osama Bin Laden who was killed by U.S. forces in 2011
  • Cartoon 9: A boxing match between two men is taking place with one man looking confident and being labeled, “2011” and the other man appearing dazed and symbolizing western North Carolina. The man representing WNC’s cornerman is splashing water on him that is labeled, “2012.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A piece of bloody food is depicted in a pool of water and labeled, “fellow candidates” as elephants with shark fins on their head swim quickly towards it. The water is labeled, “frenzy.” 
• Folder 8 (dated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A figure depicted as either a pastor or academic figure speaking at a podium to a crowd and saying, “If you will please turn to page 34 in your spelling workbook…” Two men sit to the side of the stage on a bench with one being labeled, “ACLU.” The other man whispers to him, “Ok, I’m beginning to see your point.” 
  • Cartoon 2: The Western Carolina University’s mascot, the Catamount, opens up a wrapped present with the name “Speir” coming out of the box. The mascot is thinking to itself, “I hope this is just what I wanted…” This is in reference to the hiring of a new head football coach Mark Speir in December 2011.
  • Cartoon 3: A man bends down to read the cover of a newspaper placed in a newspaper dispenser on the street. The man is reading aloud the title saying, “U.N commission says war on drugs a failure.” A woman nearby responds with, “Isn’t every war.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Politician Tim Moffitt is depicted as a little girl, smirking with arms crossed next to a large insect labeled, “Asheville.” A caption above the scene reads, “Little Tim Moffitt, thought he might profit, taking our water away. Making our resource a GOP outsource, his true colors on display.” 
  • Cartoon 5: An aggravated male student is seen carrying a large backpack in which we can see the contents being multiple religious texts such as the Koran, Holy Bible, Torah, and the Bhagavad Gita. The student is thinking to himself, “Great…now I have to carry them all around…” 
  • Cartoon 6: An excavator is seen tearing down a large brick wall beside a road on a large hill and loading the rubble into the back of a dump truck. A car is driving by the scene on the nearby road and people within the car are saying, “Looks like we’re getting our “fair view” back.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A U.S soldier leaves through a doorway reaching for a light switch but an off screen voice calls out within the room saying, “You can leave it on. Thanks.” The lightbulb in the room is labeled as, “Iraq.” This is a reference to the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Iraq which started in 2007 and was officially completed in December 2011.
  • Cartoon 8: The logo of the New Belgium Brewing Company is depicted with a sign under it reading, “buy local” but there is the word “into between the two words on the sign. 
• Folder 9 (undated): Cartoons from 2011
  • Cartoon 1: A female librarian looks at the viewer with a name tag reading, “Ivanna B. Goode.” There is sheet music and a dead flower on the desk the person is using. 
  • Cartoon 2: Mao Zedong using a computer and laughing in tears while a larger caption above the scene reads, “LMAO Tse Tung.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A dog with a darker colored eye is seen sitting on the side of the road looking distraught with an upside down hat beside them begging for money. A sign near the dog reads, “omega dog.” 
• Folder 10 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A portrait of a man with a metal cover over his face with a lock on it staring to the side of the viewer. A caption under the scene reads, “asstity belt.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A view of the expansive and scenic landscape of western North Carolina with a caption in the lower left hand corner reading, “thankful doesn’t begin to describe it.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A line of people wait outside the doors of a soon to open Black Friday sale with one of the people asking another, “Why is it called Black Friday?” The other person responds, “Trample people in the middle of the night to save 50¢ Friday doesn’t have the same cachet.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Four missiles are headed for a fleeing figure resembling the Judeo-Christian depiction of God. One of the rockets are labeled as, “greed, commercialism, excess” and a larger caption above the scene reads, “The real war on Christmas.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Three Warren Wilson students stand side by side looking at the viewer all holding voter ballots. One of the students is depicted as saying, “Redistrict this!” This is in possible reference to an incident in 2012 at Warren Wilson college where over 1000 votes by students were not accounted for properly as well as issues concerning what district the students were voting in.
  • Cartoon 6: Politician Heath Schuler depicted with a dog’s body and sitting in the lap of a person whose suit is labeled, “Duke Power.” The person is saying to Heath, “Good lobbyist…I mean…good doggie…” A larger caption above the scene reads, “from blue dog to lap dog…” 
  • Cartoon 7: An evergreen tree has stolen the chainsaw away from the person attempting to cut it down and is saying to them while pointing the chainsaw towards them, “Not so big without the chainsaw, eh, holiday boy?” Another tree in the background is warning the tree involved in the conflict about an additional hatchet the person has on their waist as well.
  • Cartoon 8: A representative of Warren Wilson College, located in Swannanoa, NC, sits at a desk and asks a prospective high school student, “Tell me-why do you think that Warren Wilson is the place for you?” The student is an elephant dressed like a high schooler nervously putting its hands together in response to the question.
  • Cartoon 9: Tim Moffitt depicted as a puppet on strings staring at the viewer while being controlled by a hand above him. A caption reads, “already privatized.” 
  • Cartoon 10: NC representative Patrick McHenry is depicted as walking across a map of western North Carolina with him heading in the opposite direction of WNC and saying, “That was nice. Now, where did I say I would visit more after inauguration?” 
• Folder 11 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: Two Asheville, NC police officers depicted with one driving a trolley of some sort with inebriated people riding on it and powering it through pedals located under the seat. The driving police officer is depicted as saying, “Step it up, folks, there’s a big hill coming soon. Please use the center through ma’am.” A caption above the scene reads, “after the beer trolley what will be next?” 
  • Cartoon 2: A body of water with two different sections of water clarity are seen merging, becoming more murky instead of clear like one side is. The murky section of the water is labeled, “forced MSD and Asheville city merger.” This is in reference to the merger and leasing of the city’s water system to an independent company in Asheville, NC. 
  • Cartoon 3: A father with his son asks a man sitting at a desk, “What are you raffling off?” The man at the desk is a representative of the “Asheville Tea Party” and responds, “An insensitive slap in the face of a grieving nation. How many, please?” This is in reference to a gun raffle being held in Asheville, NC by the local sect of the Tea Party around the same time as the Sandy Hook mass shooting occurred in Connecticut. 
  • Cartoon 4: Former North Carolina politician Martin Nesbitt’s face depicted as a mountain as seen from a overlook also named after him. A caption above the scene reads, “representing.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A group of tourists take pictures of a man raking leaves with one of the photographers telling the man, “Say something colorful and all regional like for us!!” The man raking responds, “How about grab a rake?” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man is looking out of a window while on a “WNC Fall Color Tour” and is thinking to himself, “All I see is white…”
  • Cartoon 7: Two men stare at a billboard that reads, “I would ever so much appreciate your vote, as I’m sure would my esteemed and noble opponent. Thank you!!” One of the men says to the other, “This is either a joke, or a cleverly disguised evil and ruthless strategy.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A bear leans up against a tree holding a plate of food and thinks to itself, “Mmm, acorn-honey soufflé, with a pine needle reduction glaze.” A caption above the scene reads, “good mast crop this year, but are Asheville bears foodies?” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two people walk on part of the breast cancer awareness symbol like it is a walking path with one of them saying, “Come on, I think it’s just up around this curve!!” A caption on the symbol itself reads, “for the cure.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Barack Obama on a swing with the seat being shaped like the state of North Carolina and asking a group of people behind him to “Push.” 
• Folder 12 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A rear perspective of a dirt stained car with the license plate reading, “MUDINEYE” and a variety of bumper stickers are placed on the back of the car relating to politics. A caption above the scene reads, “WNC politics.” 
  • Cartoon 2: The rear perspective of a person whose pants are falling down somewhat exposing a crease between their buttocks. The same visual is happening higher up near the neck region and collar of the person’s shirt. 
  • Cartoon 3: A sign reading, “Seven Fails” is depicted with an off screen caption reading, “for everybody concerned” nearby. Another caption reads, “An unfortunate development” under the sign. This is in reference to the Seven Falls development project that has since been considered a failure and land pertaining to the project has been auctioned off for different ventures. 
  • Cartoon 4: A wallet seen with a variety of different colored and species leaves stuffed into the pockets within. The wallet is labeled, “WNC” and a larger caption above the scene reads, “What’s in our wallet?” 
  • Cartoon 5: Former house of representatives candidate Hayden Rogers depicted as a football player running down the field and saying, “All the way to the Washington 11th!!” His coach is depicted in the background cheering him on and wearing a hoodie that is labeled, “Shuler.” A larger caption about the scene reads, “from the gridiron club to the gridlocked one.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A depiction of the state of North Carolina on a map but the state is enlarged and swollen with different diseases such as diabetes, arthritis, and heart disease acting as the cities within the state. The caption reads, “North Carolina 2030.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A single piece of paper from “Cohen Enterprises” depicts a press release. The paper reads, “Due to an ongoing investigation, David Cohen’s cartoon about the police evidence room (Asheville Police Department) audit will not be released at this time. The investigation, while not criminal in nature, involves Mr. Cohen’s search for something to say that hasn’t already been said.
  • Cartoon 8: A sign on a sidewalk in Asheville, NC that is advertising a property that has been recently sold by “City Council Reality.” A larger caption reads, “Separation of church by state.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A variety of signs hung on a wall that pertain to stereotypes or aspects of Asheville, NC. Signs include, “share the road”, “share the beer”, “share the faith”, and “share the freak.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A chain and sign blocking a pathway that leads to a Buncombe County, NC greenway trail. The sign reads, “We don’t need this! Don’t tell us what to do!! We’ll put up a fence against new ideas, signed, public opinion.” 
• Folder 13 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A festival dedicated to sleep and rest titled, “Restfest 2012” is taking place. Depicting multiple people in reclining chairs sleeping with a caption above the scene reading, “last one of the summer season.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two people gaze at a building in Asheville, NC with one person holding their arms in the air in frustration saying, “These new buildings don’t even try to fit into Asheville!! What do you even call this style of architecture?!?” with the other person calmly responding, “Art drecko.”  
  • Cartoon 3: Two people have a discussion over drinks in Asheville, NC with one reading a newspaper and reading out loud saying, “It says here that the jobless rate in Asheville has gone down…” The other person responds with, “That means more people have 4 jobs instead of just 3.”
  • Cartoon 4: A first person point of view from the perspective of David Cohen himself as the viewer trying to figure out a topic for a cartoon with his hand holding a pencil and trembling. David is depicted as thinking, “Must….draw….cartoon…..brain…..frozen…topic….overload!!!!” A notepad with a variety of words, names, and topics sit beside the blank piece of paper David is drawing on. 
  • Cartoon 5: Former Asheville mayor Terry Bellamy depicted as the popular American cartoon character Snoopy bouncing off of a dog house that is labeled, “greater Asheville regional airport authority.” A caption beside the scene reads, “not for sit-on.” This is in reference to the Regional Airport Authority of Asheville Board of Trustees selection that took place in 2012. Terry Bellamy was denied a spot since a mandate stated that elected officials could not hold a place on the board. 
  • Cartoon 6: A elderly couple drive in a convertible coupe towards a screaming off scene crowd. The woman in the passenger seat is depicted as saying, “I’m getting the feeling that we have come to the wrong topless rally…” This is in reference to the topless or nude protesters that sometimes inhabit Asheville, NC for a variety of social justice movements.
  • Cartoon 7: Three people discuss a building project that concerned the Basilica of St. Lawrence in Asheville, NC and a construction of a hotel across the street. One of the people is confused how the hotel investors were able to secure the land considering during this time the Basilica had cracks in its structure which was a concern with the proximity of heavy construction nearby if the hotel were to be built. Another man finally conveys to the confused person that it is out of the hands of the residents of Asheville to decide. 
  • Cartoon 8: Two women watch a young boy play with a toy chainsaw and talk as they observe. One woman asks, “That toy chainsaw is so cute! Does Jimmy want to be a logger when he grows up?” with the mother of the boy responding, “No, an outdoor advertising executive.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two service windows for the “anti-LGBT discrimination policy dept.” with one window being closed and a sign above it reading “county.” The other window has a sign reading, “city” and has a person ready to help people. 
  • Cartoon 10: A human breast stylized as the popular cartoon character Hello Kitty with ears and ribbon attached. A caption above the scene reads, “coming to Asheville August 26th…Hello (slang term for breast).”  
• Folder 14 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A man shows politician Tim Moffitt a pair of underwear while saying to him, “Yessir, Mr. Moffitt, these ‘Vote-of-the-Looms’ are very comfortable! Non-binding, even! Moffitt responds, “Excellent.” A sign nearby the men reads, “briefs, water system, referendums.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A chicken protesting and crossing a road holds a sign that reads, “boycott Chick-fil-a.” The chicken is also saying, “I was already on the other side.” A caption above the scene reads, “why did the chicken cross the road?” 
  • Cartoon 3: Politician Tim Moffitt is depicted in stereotypical burglar garb with a partial mask carrying a bag of items including a plane symbolizing the Asheville, NC regional airport, a water faucet, and a sign reading “annexation.” Moffitt is saying to the viewer, “I’ll be back later for the rest of your stuff.”   
  • Cartoon 4: Five men sit in a circle on foldable chairs all looking at an empty chair located in the circle as well. One of the men asks, “Hey where’s Nate?” A larger caption above the scene reads, “Russian roulette support group.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A caption reads, “Booth suggestions for next years Bele Chere…” Three booths are shown with one being a mega-phone selling booth, a flame retardant clothing store, and a sold out ear plug merchant. 
  • Cartoon 6: A police officer on a segway talks to a citizen walking down the street wearing a helmet saying to them, “Thank you, citizen, for complying with the helmet requirement for downtown skateboarding.” The citizen replied to the police officer, “I’m not a skater; I’m protecting myself in case I get assaulted.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A smiling family walks by two men in suits with a bullhorn saying to them, “What a lovely family! Have a great festival, and remember-it’s all about love!!” A caption above the scene reads, “a kinder, gentler Bele Chere.” Bele Chere was a festival that was held in downtown Asheville, NC until its end in 2013.
  • Cartoon 8: A distraught man covers his mouth in shock while looking at his energy bill with a caption above the scene reading, “Progress Energy/Duke merger creates new corporate entity-Puke.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Local politician Patsy Keever depicted as a character in the popular TV show Star Trek with her being captain of a partially destroyed spaceship and saying, “Damage control!!! This is the captain! Get a thesaurus to the bridge now!!!” Another character from the show responds to Patsy, “Spinners at maximum, Patsy.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Four fish are swimming in a barrel filled with water and are labeled, “Carl”, “Moral Watch Dogs”, “Gobrainless.org”, and “Chad” separately. A caption above the scene reads, “Where’s my gun?- Editorial Cartoonist.” 
• Folder 15 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A double sided cartoon with the first side showing a meeting between local Asheville reporter Chad Nesbitt and local politician/doctor Carl Mumpower concerning the name of their website that is protesting the recent topless protest that took place at this point in time in Asheville, NC. They are contemplating different names with the one they have chosen being called, “”Gobrainless.org.” A larger caption at the top of the scene reads, “strategy session.” The second side of the card is a dictionary-like format description of the word irony with an etymology section at the bottom as well. The definition of irony is incorrect and instead replaced with, “Chad Nesbitt and Carl Mumpower calling their anti-topless website www.gobrainless.org.” The etymology section is described as, “origin- just born that way.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two images of the same scene with varying differences in the depiction of a white ball with a spike at the bottom. In the first scene the sphere has “cool green Asheville” displayed on it with a caption above it reading, “1970’s” The second scene shows the ball but with the lettering melted and dripping off the bottom of the ball with the captions reading, “today” above it and “not the way you want it” below it. A larger caption above the scene reads, “Asheville slogans.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men standing beside each other and speaking to the viewer. Both men are saying together, “Our country right and wrong!” The man on the left holding up a peace sign is also saying, “And we all know who’s wrong!” with the man on the right finishing the sentence with, “And who’s right.” A caption at the top of the scene reads, “Post-modern patriotism.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A tattooed man and woman walking hand in hand smiling with the man’s tattoos reading, “nice one huh?”, “look at me!”, and “art or ego?” The woman’s tattoos read, “I could have bought food but I chose ink.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two scenes with the same context with one scene showing a man talking to the viewer saying, “Buy local! It creates more jobs, and less pollution, and the money stays right…” In the next scene the man appears outside of a popular grocery store line named, “Trader Joes” and yelling “Cheap wine!!!”  
  • Cartoon 6: Airport runway workers taxi away a giant sign saying, “Asheville Regional Airport” with one of the workers saying, “Take it away!” 
  • Cartoon 7: A closeup of a foot of the Judeo-Christian depiction of God as they walk away. Particles are shown coming off the figure and are labeled, “god-particles” while a pile of dust and dirt is labeled, “universe.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A person lays in bed being portrayed as being very distraught as a radio plays nearby on a desk which is depicted as saying, “Tonight, on Tea Party fantasy theater– ‘U.N. World Domination!’ Brought to you by Wingnutty-o’s, the breakfast of paranoids.” A monster is also depicted as being under the bed growling words such as, “sustainability” and “environmentalism.”
  • Cartoon 9: A man and a woman sit at a bar while looking at a TV that reads, “large tree smashes through mayor Bellamy’s roof; no injuries.” The woman responds to this with, “It’s a good thing that didn’t happen to Cecil-he’s probably not covered for acts of god.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A son talks to his father who is sitting in a reclining chair while the son’s little brother stands beside him. The son is telling the father, “I’ve been your son for longer than he has-if you want to keep me, I want to see some longevity allowance.”

Box 12:

• Folder 1 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: Politician Mitt Romney reads a newspaper that talks about Barack Obama’s sole use of executive privilege. Mitt Romney is thinking to himself, “Huh…whattya know?…I thought that meant yachts, private jets, and money stashed away in the Caymans.” This is in reference to Barack Obama invoking executive privilege concerning the botched operation named Fast & Furious with a federal judge rejecting the privilege. 
  • Cartoon 2: A man stands on a partially completed staircase leading to a veranda which is labeled, “2% raise.” The man is wearing a shirt with the back reading “city workers.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A man is pulled over by a police officer and asks the officer “Click it or ticket?” with the officer replying, “No sire, show’ em, or throw’ em.” The officer is holding a pamphlet that reads, “INS profiling guidelines.” INS stands for Immigration and Naturalization Service.
  • Cartoon 4: A dog urinates into a contraption that is designed to contain the substance mocking a more extreme idea of picking up after your pets on public property. The dog is thinking to itself, “Those little bags were bad enough…you people are freaking me out!” A larger caption above the scene reads, “soon enough…”  
  • Cartoon 5: The downtown Asheville BID board of directors conducting interviews for a position with the person they are interviewing saying to two men on the board, “Just because I don’t own any downtown property, that shouldn’t disqualify me from telling you what you can or cannot do with your money.” The interviewers dislike the response and call for the next candidate. This is in reference to the BID program implemented in Asheville, NC with the purpose of the local business working together to fund improvement projects around the local area of said businesses. 
  • Cartoon 6: A houseless man salutes a wary tourist couple in Asheville, NC while saying, “I can tell you where stuff is, for some spare change man, man.” The houseless man is wearing an ambassador’s sash and standing near a teller box labeled, “BID Ambassador Station.” This is in reference to the BID program implemented in Asheville, NC with the purpose of the local business working together to fund improvement projects around the local area of said businesses. 
  • Cartoon 7: A silhouette of a partially striped cat or animal with pointy ears and a tail is depicted as a larger caption above it reads, “38% of Americans now classify themselves as ‘independents’….What would their party’s mascot be?” 
  • Cartoon 8: A police officer is in the middle of telling a houseless man to leave the area he is camping in but is also telling the man, “If it makes you feel any better, I can’t afford a home in Asheville either.”  
  • Cartoon 9: A priest walking while holding up a sign with both hands that reads, “separation of church and hotel.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Local Asheville and Buncombe County politician Don Yelton walking towards a closed door that has a cliff on the other side while saying, “No closed door is going to keep Don Yelton out!!” This is in reference to Don Yelton being found guilty of party disloyalty in 2012 by the Buncombe County Republican Party Committee.
• Folder 2 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: Three people stand at a bus stop in Asheville, NC with one person reading a pamphlet and saying, “(expletive), it looks like they eliminated this route!!” Another person asks a man running away from the bus stop, “Where are you going?” to which the running man responds, “Strive-not-to-lose-my-job!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man and a woman hold cups up to a ground fountain spraying beer in the air in streams at Pack Square Park in downtown Asheville, NC. 
  • Cartoon 3: A elderly couple stand beside each other with the woman being labeled, “bigoted doctrine” and saying to the viewer, “Same-sex marriage in North Carolina!?” The man is labeled, “older generations prejudices” and is saying to the viewer, “Over our dead bodies!!” 
  • Cartoon 4: A bumper sticker placed on a vehicle reading, “celebrate diversity, vote for either the African-American or the Mormon.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A person in running gear stands ready at a start line for a marathon and is looking at the very steep hill in front of them. There are signs spread throughout the ascending hill with them reading in order: “animosity towards outsiders”, “resistance to change”, and “equal rights for all.” A caption above the scene reads, “Asheville has always had a marathon…” 
  • Cartoon 6: A person swats at a partially destroyed wasps nest with a stick labeled “amendment one.” The wasps nest is labeled, “N.C. LGBTs” and a caption under the scene reads, “be careful what you ask for…” Amendment one was the last state constitutional amendment banning same sex marriage pre-2014. 
  • Cartoon 7:A baby kitten kisses the top of its mother’s head as they embrace. A collar tag around the mother cat’s neck reads, “Mama Shirley 87” with a caption above the scene reading, “Happy Mother’s Day!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man wearing a shirt reading, “N.C. LGBTs” is slapped across the face by an off screen person using a book as the weapon that reads, “Holy Bigotry.” A caption above the scene reads, “turning the cheek.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A cat’s paw desperately reaching out of a litter box as if it has been swallowed whole by it while a bag of cat litter reading, “super absorbent cat litter” sits nearby. 
  • Cartoon 10: A paper, tearaway calendar sits next to a framed picture of two hands holding with the caption in the scene reading, “no matter how the vote turns out…only love wins.” A smaller caption near the year and Cohen’s signature reads, “do the right thing North Carolina.” This is in reference to North Carolina’s ban on gay marriage pre-2014.
• Folder 3 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: Mitt Romney portrayed as the villain in a rendition of the popular U.S. movie The Wizard of OZ. Romney’s giant face is displayed between two pillars of fire while saying, “I am the great and romnipotent Mitt!!!!” Two people are displayed looking behind a curtain below the face with one of them saying, “You know what? I don’t think there is a man behind the curtain.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A patriotic U.S.A. themed pinball machine with Uncle Sam placed in the middle bending over with a button placed on his buttocks reading, “bonus.” The inside of the pinball machine has an inscription labeled, “super pac” and a plaque on the outer wall of the machine reads, “super pac, money rules, is licensed by The United States Supreme Court, #75661-124711801111943288.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A group of students walk into an auditorium to hear a talk titled, “today, an inspirational marriage.” One of the students is saying as they are walking into the room, “I don’t know what to think about the separation of church and state, but I like the separation of me and algebra.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man getting gas for his car thinks to himself, “I wonder if mine is still in the basement” as he watches a person commute to work on a skateboard. 
  • Cartoon 5: Asheville, NC district attorney in 2012 Ron Moore talking at a podium looking towards the viewer saying, “There is nothing I would like better than to release the audit of the evidence room inventory but, it seems to be…..missing…” 
  • Cartoon 6: A group of Occupy Asheville protestors with picket signs look at a relief tent complete with food and cover for those affected by natural disasters created by a former Christian community group called Revive Asheville. One of the protestors asks their companions, “…Dang…why didn’t we think of that?” 
  • Cartoon 7: A secret service agent only wearing an earpiece and undergarments looks at a sign in a concerned manner before entering a building. The sign reads, “No shirt, no shoes, no secret, no service.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A landscape view of the North Fork Reservoir in North Carolina with the reservoir saying to the viewer, “I don’t think you are clear on the concept-you don’t own me; I own you.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A hand holds a small pool of water in its palm as the water slips between fingers as well. A caption reads above and below the scene, “owning the water is like trying to hold it in your hand-a leaky concept, at best.”  
  • Cartoon 10: A man and his son walk hand in hand with the son asking the father, “Daddy, why are so many religious schools private?” The father responds, “Best place to pray.” 
• Folder 4 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A sign belonging to a presumable church reads, “Apr. 15 ‘tax-exempt, but max-redempt!’.” as a family in dress clothes gather around it. 
  • Cartoon 2: Three men sit at a bar and stare at their drinks in deep thought with the three men thinking to themselves right to left, “art?”, “craft?”, and “beer!” The bartender cleaning cups off to the side of the scene is thinking to herself, “$.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two chocolate bunnies and a chocolate headless figure of the Judeo-Christian God sit side by side with bites taken out of each of them. The bunnies are saying, “My butt hurts!” and “what?” because of the chunks taken out of them being from the butt and the ears. The figure is saying, “I’m back! …most of me…”  
  • Cartoon 4: A couple lay in bed as the nearby window shows a building across the street is making a lot of noise causing the man in the bed to stay awake and say, “”I tried counting sheep, but they were all drunken louts, screaming ‘freebird’ and popping ‘woolies’ all over the neighborhood.
  • Cartoon 5: A top down view of a city street with a car lane, a bike lane, a skateboard lane, and finally a sidewalk. They are all occupied with a larger caption at the bottom of the scene reading, “we’re all just trying to… get along.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two tourists look at a directional sign in Asheville, NC that references numerous renamed landmarks of the city including the renamed U.S Cellular Center, The Capt. Jeff Bowen Bridge, and The Billy Graham Expressway. One of the tourists is depicted as saying, “Folks around here are pretty particular about what things are called…” A group of native Asheville residents stand to the side and collectively say, “Not ‘folks’, please, we prefer Buncombe-Americans.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A sign in the middle of a grassy stone garden display that reads, “Mission Hospital.” A larger caption above the sign reads, “tagged.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A large caption reading, “Amendment One” is depicted with the O in the word “one” being crossed out with a equals sign in the middle declaring that it is not equal or valid to what the amendment actually stands for which is the banning of same-sex marriage. 
  • Cartoon 9: Two images of the same scenario with slight differences. In one image a man is smiling and thinking to himself about a rip off calendar depicting the date of May 25, 2012, a blooming flower, and a thermostat that is reading 75 degrees. In the second image the man is distraught and thinking to himself about a rip off calendar depicting the date of August 25, 2012, a cactus, and a thermostat reading over 110 degrees.
  • Cartoon 10: A giant sign spelling “amendment one” is depicted with a group of people erecting the letter N in front of the word “one”, therefore spelling “amendment none.” Another caption below the scene reads, “Do the right thing, North Carolina!” This is in reference to the last state constitution amendment that banned same-sex marrigage in North Carolina pre-2014
• Folder 5 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A piece of chocolate and a check for $500,000 written by the TDA (Tourist Development Authority) in Asheville, NC sit on a pillow. A piece of paper on the pillow reads, “Welcome! We are happy that you decided to visit WNC!! Please accept this chocolate and a check for $500,000 as an inducement to get you to come back to our hotel. Thank you!!- TDA.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man suffering from allergies sings a song about seasonal allergies to the tune of “All of Me” by Belle Baker with the lyrics being, “Allergies, Why all these allergies? Have to sneeze, from morning to night time. Take the drips, I want to lose them. Tissues and shots, I have to use them. Pollen that flies, leaves me with eyes that cry, What did I do to deserve this? Spring is the worst; I must be cursed! Why all these allergies?” 
  • Cartoon 3: A elderly man and a middle aged woman sit on a bench while looking at a newspaper dispenser showing the title to a newspaper being that of the bridge dedication to Capt. Bowen in Asheville, NC in 2012 and the controversy surrounding it. The elderly man is saying, “I don’t believe that the Smokey Park Bridge deserves that particular honor…” The woman responds with, “They should name a mountain after that man.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A person in full firefighter gear looks at the viewer and says, “Hey guys, here’s an idea-name a firetruck or a fire station after Capt. Bowen. That would mean a lot more than an unsafe bridge that needs to be replaced, and the D.O.T. would be O.O.L.!
  • Cartoon 5: A man looks at the viewer while pointing and saying angrily, “Christians are under attack in this country, and we’re fighting back! What do you expect us to do?!! Turn the other cheek?! Love our enemies?! Beat our swords into plowshares?!!” The Judeo-Christian God is to the right of the man and is saying in response, “Well, actually…” 
  • Cartoon 6: A bag of money labeled TDA (Tourism Development Authority) is attached to a zip line and is being sent over a group of vertically reaching hands trying to grab it but are out of reach. A caption near the group of hands says, “Asheville metro area, 3rd nationwide in food hardship.” This is in reference to public complaints that tourism in Asheville, NC is funded more so than any other public works program in the city. 
  • Cartoon 7: A bear is depicted as having climbed halfway up a tall tree and is looking down at the ground while wrapping itself around the tree saying, “What’s the deal?! I finally found a place to park downtown, and you want me to leave?!” 
  • Cartoon 8: Rush Limbaugh is depicted as a deflating balloon figure with the wind coming from the whole in him being labeled, “sponsors.” This is in reference to the Sandra Fluke controversy that Limbaugh caused after calling a law student (Sandra Fluke) derogatory names over their ideas on contraception mandates. 
  • Cartoon 9: a large group of people line up at a start line in running gear with two of the race prompters standing next to each other talking. The prompter on the left is asking, “What a crowd! 5k? Marathon?” The other prompter responds, “County commission.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A man leans over a gravesite saying enthusiastically, “Come on, you can do it!!! Push through!!!” A larger caption above the scene reads, “life coach.”
• Folder 6 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A burning copy of the Quran is being thrown onto a pile of sticks in a campfire, the campfire is labeled, “anti-American sentiment.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A basketball that is labeled, “Asheville, 2012” sits with a dollar sign shadow underneath it. This may be a reference to the funding amount the UNCA men’s basketball team received in 2012 or the at the time recent opening of the Kimmel arena where the UNCA basketball program plays. 
  • Cartoon 3: A bumper sticker on a car driving by a lake reads, “A congressional hearing about reproductive rights without a woman witness is like a fish with a bicycle.” Two fish in the lake looking at the bumper sticker talk with one saying, “I don’t get it” and the other fish responding, “Neither do they…” 
  • Cartoon 4: A father and son look out over the North Fork Reservoir in North Carolina with the father saying to the son, “None of this will be yours one day, son. Unless you can trick people into electing politicians who will give it to you.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A closeup of a glass of water half full with three captions placed beside the scene. One caption reads, “optimist, ‘the glass is half full’.” The second caption reads, “pessimist, ‘the glass is half empty’.” The last caption reads, “Moffittist, ‘I want the glass and the water’.” This is in reference to North Carolina politician Tim Moffitt
  • Cartoon 6: Two people labeled, “Carlile Group” hook a person with a pole that is labeled, “The Cliffs” with the person almost falling off a cliff and the Carlile Group associates being the only thing saving them. The person that is about to fall is saying, “Hey, what about Tiger?!!” This is in reference to the Cliffs in Asheville, NC that was a golf course and community designed by Tiger Woods that eventually went bankrupt during early stages of construction. 
  • Cartoon 7: A billboard reading, “see beautiful WNC” stands in a field of tree stumps and barren land. 
  • Cartoon 8: Three people dressed in similar outfits that are mocking local politician Cecil Bothwell with half masks with a likeness to Bothwell and similar style of suits Bothwell wore. Each person is doing an action that is mocking Bothwell and a caption above the scene reads, “new social sub-group emerges: ‘Boths’- followers of Cecil.” One person is doing a “air oath” with no book under their hand, another person is holding a change purse meant to symbolize Bothwells contribution to local campaigns, and the last person is holding a suitcase meant to symbolize Bothwell’s past baggage.
  • Cartoon 9: A man, presumably a politician, speaks at a podium next to a street sign reading, “C Street.” The man is depicted as saying to the viewer, “I have decided to spend time with my real family.” 
  • Cartoon 10: The Judeo-Christian depiction of God declining an offer for a plastic bag by a grocery store clerk for his items with Jesus saying, “No thanks I brought my own.” The plastic bag is thinking to itself, “Hallelujah!” 
• Folder 7 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A chart with a declining line and the end of the line being buried under a pile of rocks and rubble. A caption under the chart reads, “I-40 corridor business.” This is in reference to the major rock slide near the TN-NC border on Interstate 40 that closed the road down for a number of months in 2012.
  • Cartoon 2: A ribbon that is partially pink and yellow with the yellow slowly covering the pink portion and is labeled, “Komen Foundation.” A caption under the ribbon says, “yellow is the new pink.” This is in reference to the Komen Foundation, who created the pink ribbon program to call for awareness to women’s breast cancer and also created the yellow ribbon program which brings awareness to the well being of U.S. veterans and reserve members.
  • Cartoon 3: 4 figures completely covered in gift wrapping paper shoot through the tops of clouds in the sky going upward as a larger caption reads above the scene, “the wrapture.”  
  • Cartoon 4: Two people talk as former North Carolina Governor Bev Perdue runs away in the distance. One of the people is saying, “Bev has decided to run from governor…” Bev is thinking to herself as she runs, “I am outta here.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Three people look up and point in amazement at a rainbow with a caption above the scene reading, “pay-per-view, double rainbows extra.” A man next to the group of people in a ticket booth labeled, “new water management system” says to the group, “private.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Barney Fife, a character from the popular American TV show, The Andy Griffith Show talks on a phone saying, “Juanita? I don’t think the sheriff is coming back. Come on down to the jail and let me ‘harass’ you a little!” A plaque on a nearby desk reads, “Henderson County Sheriff’s Office.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A large caption spelled out in stars reads, “new Buncombe County outdoor lighting rules.” A person stands under a street light with their hands above their head saying, “I see the light!!” while an off screen person who is presumably in the dark responds, “I don’t!!” 
  • Cartoon 8: Newt Greenwich takes an Olympic torch handed to him by Mitt Romney while they are running a relay hurdle race. The hurdle in front of Greenwich reads, “Romney, Newt’s past.” 
  • Cartoon 9: Police Chief of Asheville, NC (2012-2014) William Anderson walking away from the viewer in his uniform with a piece of toilet paper stuck on the bottom of his shoe that reads, “allegations of racism.” An off screen voice is depicted as saying to him, “Um, Chief…you got a little something…” 
  • Cartoon 10: A member of the UNCA men’s basketball team stands in an empty field with a basketball saying to the viewer, “Home court, not home field.” A caption above the scene reads, “March Madness.” 
• Folder 8 (dated): Cartoons from 2012
  • Cartoon 1: A curtain decorated with flames and steps on either side and a picture of a man painted on the curtain. A sign above reads “The great and glorious Moff”. A caption below reads “pay close attention to the man behind this curtain”.  
  • Cartoon 2: A man and a woman sit at a counter, the man is looking at a laptop, a caption above him reads “Nothing. Nada. Zip…”, the woman beside him says “wow. It’s like they vanished off the face of the Book” 
  • Cartoon 3: A man in a USA Shirt is standing beside an elephant and looking at a sign that says “Is America ready for a Mormon president?” with a picture of Mitt Romney, a caption above them reads, “How bout it, huh? You gave a Black guy a shot.”
  • Cartoon 4: A church sign reads, “First Church of the Holy Sacred, This week: “Feed your soul” also this week: Fresh Corn 3 for 1.00 Tomatoes 2.09 lb”
  • Cartoon 5: Five people, packing up a campsite, a sign in the middle of the page reads “occupy Asheville Base camp”. 2 people carry signs that read “High Hopes” and “For social change”. Caption reads “First rule of camping: Pack out what you pack in.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Three Men Stand in a line behind a desk that says “Permits” and a Sign that says “Kampgrounds of Asheville”. The first man has an Occupy Asheville sign, the second man is a Klansman with a backpack, the Klansman says “This IS the line for the free speech camping permits, right?” the third man has a sign that says “god hates fags” 
  • Cartoon 7: A sign reads, “Capt. Jeff Bowen Memorial Bridge, formerly known as the most dangerous place in Asheville” as the scene behind the sign shows speeding and crashing cars. A caption above the scene reads, “ironic, or appropriate…?” 
  • Cartoon 8: A rock hits the surface of a body of water causing ripples and a splash, the rock is labeled, “your vote.” A caption above the scene reads, “It might seem like tossing a pebble into a vast sea, but oh, those ripples…” 
  • Cartoon 9: Robert Moog is seen covered in confetti looking at the viewer with a smirk and a caption beside him reading, “Thanks for coming! We had a great time, didn’t we? See you again next year!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A person hands out candy to two trick or treaters on Halloween night who are depicted as Billy Graham and Mitt Romney in ghost costumes. Graham responds to the person’s question about what their costumes are with, “I’m Billy Graham and he’s Mitt Romney. He used to be in a cult, but we’re friends now.
• Folder 9 (dated) Cartoons 2012 
  • Cartoon 1:A turkey behind prison bars, saying “HEY!!! Did the Governor call yet ?!” (Back) a turkey body with a santa head holding a menorah in one wing and 3 bottle rockets under the other, caption reads “Happy Endayear! That joyous time in America when all of the holidays are crammed into a month long orgy of overeating, overimbibing, overspending, overadvertising, and get over it, we still call it Christmas!!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A balding old man sits on a pool with a guitar, the man is saying “I’m going to play a new one for you now- It’s called “angry old white men political blues, in the key of A minor-ity” 
  • Cartoon 3: A parody of someecards, features a woman pointing wearing victorian clothing, the caption reads “Who said making WAY inappropriate NAZI references, against FELLOW BOARD MEMBERS , in a RECORDED PUBLIC FORUM, was a good idea? No one. Ever. your b.o.e.cards” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man carrying a briefcase and wearing a fedora walks past a car’s bumper. Three bumper stickers read “Buy local” “Be vocal” “Bi focal”. The man thinks “New yokel.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A house with a tree in the front yard. A father and son sit on the front steps, caption reads “The best kind of school for the teaching of religion and Morals… Homeschool” 
  • Cartoon 6:A donkey looks from behind a speakeasy door marked “The commissioners club”. A sign on the door reads capacity 5, but 5 has been struck through and replaced by 1. An elephant is knocking on the door with its trunk. The donkey asks “Yeah? Who sent you?” and the elephant replies “John Q. Public.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A donkey and elephant lie on a checkered finish line. The banner above reads “get up and go to work half marathon. NOW” caption underneath reads “2012 election finish line” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two musicians sit on chairs in rubble. Boards from the rubble have the words “Mrs. Hyatt’s Oprahouse”. A caption above reads “Its the music not the venue.” written in the style of sheet music. This is in reference to a local bluegrass Venue, Mrs. Hyatt’s music house, which was torn down following property disputes and replaced with a car dealership. 
  • Cartoon 9: A man with long hair and tattered clothes  crawls across the ocean floor. He is saying “…Air… …Air…” 
  • Cartoon 10: A shoe, police tape, trash, a piece of paper with “99%” on it, and a sign reading “occupy Asheville” lie on the ground. A sign in the background reads “Public park, No trespassing after dark”. Caption underneath reads “you can’t evict an idea…” 
• Folder 10 (undated) Cartoons 2012 
  • Cartoon 1: A man and his son walk beside each other. Caption beside the man reads “It’s not that I don’t remember what it’s’ like being a teen-ager… It’s that, in my mind, I still am one” his son responds “…dad…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man sits on a chair with a dart in his chest, in front of him stands a man in a park rangers uniform holding a rifle. Caption says “Assisted Tranquicide” 
  • Cartoon 3: A man and child look and point at the sky near a street light. The sky reads “New Buncombe county outdoor lighting rules”. Both people remark “Wow!” 
  • Cartoon 4: The lower half of a person on the left, one hand points at a dog. The dog is saying “I don’t HAVE an inside bark”. 
  • Cartoon 5: An elephant points at Barack Obama while saying “you have to ignore my partisanship and fear mongering; those are pre-existing conditions!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man looks downwards at his pockets which are both turned inside out. Words are coming from both his pockets “Keep your filthy feelthy hands out, man!” and “No more keys!! No more keys!! No more keys!!”. Caption above reads pockets of resistance 
  • Cartoon 7: Five grocery clerks dance with and ride grocery carts, most are wearing sunglasses. Caption above reads “Cartography” 
  • Cartoon 8: A conductor types at 2 typewriters simultaneously. Caption reads “Stereotyping”. On the back, a drawing of George W Bush. 
  • Cartoon 9: A man rides a box with wheels, on the front is written “Vote here” with an arrow pointing to a slot. On the side “Ballot” is partially obscured. 
  • Cartoon 10: A street with 2 half orbs in the middle. Caption reads “Speed rumps
• Folder 11 (dated) Cartoons 2013
  • Cartoon 1: 3 people stand in line for a poll booth labeled “Voting station five”. The second person in line is saying “I don’t know… the one who’ll govern by hissy fit or the writer who can only come up with “bully dinky”?” the third person in line says “I’m going with the two embarrassed ones.”. This is apparently in reference to an incident in the 2013 Asheville city council candidate forum, where 2 candidates, Cecil Bothwell and Jonathon Wainscott, began a shouting match during the forum. The first man in line is a caricature of Bothwell, 
  • Cartoon 2: 2 men in clown or jester outfits stand in front of the flat iron sculpture, with another man beside them placing money into a hat. One of the clowns is saying “But the reason I can’t build affordable housing is because it’s not …. Affordable”. The man beside them says “Nice Irony, dudes! Here’s a ten!”. 
  • Cartoon 3: A child in a mask stands in front of a door holding out a trick or treat bag. The child says “Hi I’m supposed to be Don Yelton, racist. Trick or treat!” from the house someone responds “Get out of here, you lazy white man! Go WORK for your candy!!”. This is in reference to comments local candidate Don Yelton made during October 2013 on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart. 
  • Cartoon 4: A couple walks by an electronics store, inside televisions read “Fender Benders, Frayed Nerves and now this…” and “Death on Bowen bridge”. A man stands beside a newspaper box, the headline reads “Bowen Bridge Claims life”, from the man’s headphones comes “Traffic still backed up on Bowen Bridge”. The man in the couple remarks “There has to be a better way to remember Jeff.” his partner replies “Rob, Too.” This is in reference to the death of police officer Rob Bingaham after his car fell from Bowen Bridge (named after Jeff Bowen) 
  • Cartoon 5: A elderly couple sitting at a table drinking coffee while the man reads the paper. The man says “Looks like Asheville made another list” the woman responds “least amount of affordable housing that isn’t the lobby of a downtown hotel?” 
  • Cartoon 6: An elk or deer butts head with a man sitting on the ground. The deer is saying “Maybe you should have left the park closed!!” and the man responds “Maybe you’re not going to like how this ends” 
  • Cartoon 7: Asheville chief of police William Anderson sits at a desk surrounded by a ring of fire. Caption above reads “Dianty’s inferno” and the fire features the caption “Allegations of a coverup”. This is in reference to an incident where the son of then chief of police William Anderson was in a car accident. Following the accident Chief Anderson would face charges of a coverup 
  • Cartoon 8: A drawing of a waterfall with mountains in the background. A caution sign in the foreground reads “Waterfall” “people do, too” “stay off!”. 
  • Cartoon 9: Paula Deen looks into an oven as a pie burns, on the pie is “N – – – -” while Deen remarks “Whoops…”. This is likely in reference to the 2013 Paula Deen N-word scandal, where Deen faced public backlash for her use of the N-word
  • Cartoon 10: Two panels. First panel features a hole, above it a caption reads “There’s a hole in our city, let’s fill it, let’s fill it, there’s a hole in our city, let’s fill it today~”. Second panel now features caution tape around the hole reading “Nimby – do not cross” and above the hole caption reads “Let’s fill it with housing, and smart growth, and greenways, let’s fill it w…”
• Folder 12 (dated) Cartoons 2013 
  • Cartoon 1: A pirate ship, with 2 pirates aboard and a caricature of Asheville Mayor Esther Mannheimer as the figurehead of the boat. The ship is christened “S.S. Asheville”. One pirate is remarking “begging your pardon, sir, but what exactly IS the role of the mayor on a ship like the Asheville?”
  • Cartoon 2: A spinning car on an icy road, Caption reads “The biggest reason for thoughts of invincibility isn’t youth… Its 4-Wheel Drive.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A man with a clipboard and glasses stands beside a road on his right and a road sign on his left. The road sign reads “Anger management assistance patrol begins” 
  • Cartoon 4: A Caricature of Tim Moffitt, a republican representative from Buncombe county, as a news boy. Moffitt is holding up a magazine, on the cover is an elephant as well as the words “The Raleigh Digest… We ❤ poor people”. Moffitt is saying “Get your free copy of the Raleigh digest right here!” “Free of the left wing liberal media bias, and free of anything resembling reality!” This is in reference to an event in late 2013 where the Asheville Citizen times published a 48 page insert called “The Raleigh Digest”, which was linked to a company owned by Moffitt. 
  • Cartoon 5: A car pulled to the side of the road with 2 occupants beside an older man resting on a fence, a highway marker sign in front of the car reads “63”. One of the occupants leans out to ask “Hey is this the way to Leicester? We Heard it was roundabout here.” the man responds “poor choice of words, son.”
  • Cartoon 6: Former mayor Terry Bellamy stands at a podium with her name. Beside her stands a man in a suit labeled “LGBT city employees” and an Asheville police department officer. Bellamy is remarking “Having served as your mayor for 8 years, I can say that I have no regrets”, both employees think “Wish we could say the same. 
  • Cartoon 7: A crime scene with a chalk outline of a body as well as marked bullet casings, beside the body a discarded newspaper’s front page reads “Asheville makes top 10 list of “Happiest cities in America””. 
  • Cartoon 8: Mike Fryar, Buncombe county commissioner, stands beside a bassinet, An arrow pointing to Fryar says “Lived here 50 years” While an arrow pointing to the Bassinet says “Born here”. The child in the bassinet says “Theoretically, then, my “goo-goo” should have more pull than your “Blah-Blah”. 
  • Cartoon 9: A man with long hair and no beard in a Santa costume sits with a child on his knee. The child says “Some great music, a heart filled with generosity, and oh yeah a house for me and my family.” the Santa responds “You got it!”. A sign beside them says “Talk to Warren” 
  • Cartoon 10: A close view of an elf and a reindeer, caption reads “Elfie” 
• Folder 13
  • Cartoon 1: A disembodied hand points a can of wasp spray at a nest which has a wasp with a human head and 3 praying mantises on it, the largest mantis is labeled “Civilians”. The can of wasp spray is labeled “Strike, kills dictators, tyrants, and despots* *and anyone else who happens to be nearby.” The mantis that is labeled civilian exclaims, “Hey watch where you point that thing!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man in a suit with an earpiece opens a door on which “Happy 95th” is written to Donald Trump and Sarah Palin. The man says “Doctor Graham?! Did you order any clowns for your birthday party?” 
  • Cartoon 3: A sticker on a blazer lapel that reads “I Voted …yawn…” caption above reads “Asheville 2013” 
  • Cartoon 4: A bear speaks into a drive thru “Yes, can i have a No_5, the dumpster deluxe, with extra bird seed, and no plastic bags. The sign for the drive thru reads “ramble thru”  
  • Cartoon 5: A man holds an apple outwards in front of a doctor who turns away and puts his hands up. 
  • Cartoon 6: An excavator dumps dirt into a grave. The excavator bucket is labeled “Developers’ profit margins” While the gravestone has the words “Affordable housing” Caption beneath reads “Infill” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man in glasses with a mustache that is red in the middle is asked by a woman “I forget…does that mean a warm winter, or a cold one?
  • Cartoon 8: A car in the center lane of a 3 lane road. Three road signs above read from left to right “High way” “Middle path” “Low bridge”. The cars license plate is “WWBD”
  • Cartoon 9: Two children look at a large gun on a spring similar to a playground rocking animal. 
  • Cartoon 10: A possum in a cage hung on a pole says “Sure it’s embarrassing, demeaning, even somewhat cruel, but it’s a lot safer than trying to cross the street.”. Captions underneath read “Happy new year!!!” “Drop that possum!!!”  
• Folder 14 (dated) Cartoons 2013  
  • Cartoon 1: 3 Road signs captioned, “Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow”. The Yesterday sign has the words “Tree city”, The Today sign “Beer City” and the tomorrow sign “Grocery city”
  • Cartoon 2: A drawing of the BB&T building, Caption reads “Best options for BB&T Building aesthetic makeover…” “1. Homeless shelter 2. Push it over onto Vance monument, turn it into a revolving vegetarian restaurant 3. Tear it down and start over!” 
  • Cartoon 3: The Vance monument in the foreground and “the cut” in the background. Caption underneath a Yin Yang reads “Asheville Style” 
  • Cartoon 4: Rep Tim Moffitt stands on a stage with a sign that says “The comedy stylings of Tim Moffitt”. Moffitt remarks to the crowd “These are jokes, people!” while thinking “Tough crowd…”. 
  • Cartoon 5: 2 men in a car stopped by a rock slide remark to each other “Whoever put this road through here must have had rocks in his…” “Front seat?” “Head.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Carl Mumpower and Chad Nesbitt hold a sign that says “GoBrainless.org” with signs around that say “Protect our babies from breasts” “APD Cuff those Ta-Tas!!” “Take pictures of Breasts – win cash!” “It’s legal? Whatever…” “Breasts should not be seen or heard!” and “If you can take a picture of a city councilperson breaking the law, like when Carl tried to buy crack, $1000!” This is in reference to the Go Topless protests in Asheville, and the opposition mostly headed by Mumpower and Nesbitt, as well as an incident where Mumpower purchased crack cocaine to highlight the openness of Asheville drug dealers. 
  • Cartoon 7: Two men are having an argument, the man on the left is angry, exclaiming “You’re telling me you can seize my property rights, drill under my land for natural gas, and there’s nothing I can do about it?!?!!” The second man, whose coat is emblazoned with “NCGA”, says “That’s correct” to which the first man responds “No fracking way”, “way” says the NCGA man. 
  • Cartoon 8: A can of soda, A burger labeled “Crazy Double burger, with cheese-like product” and a packet of cigarettes branded “Reapers”. Caption above reads “Our chemical weapons aren’t as fast, but can be just as deadly…”
  • Cartoon 9: A man with chains around his neck, wrists, and ankles, all pulled taught, stands over a North Carolina Ballot box, in one hand is a ballot
  • Cartoon 10: A woman sits on a stool facing a corner, wearing a dunce cap with the words “Baldwin” a chalkboard behind her has the writing “I will not injure the good name of the buncombe county board of education” “I will not undermine the effectiveness of the board or the school system” “I Will not discuss confidential personnel” “I will not be silenced!!”.
• Folder 15
  • Cartoon 1: A Piece of paper, “Guide to the colors of the fall” “Red- Maples, Oaks Dogwoods” “Yellow-Ash, birch, poplars” “Orange – sumacs, sassafras, sycamores” “Blue – Furloughed government employees” this is in reference to the 2013 Government shutdown
  • Cartoon 2: A quilt, featuring designs such as a closed door, and a dollar sign in a hole, as well as the sewn on words “Southern Highland Craft Guild” “Retail shops closed due to Shutdown” “Losing thousands daily”. 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men look at a poorly built house, various things are written on the house “ACA Is the LAW” “800,000 with no paychecks” “National parks closed at the height of tourist season” “Holding the nation hostage” the mailbox says “2013 shutdown lane”. One of the men is supposed to be Mark Meadows, the representative from North Carolina’s 11th district which includes Buncombe county, and who played a major role in the 2013 government shutdown. The other man comments “Well, Mark, I guess you really ARENT an architect.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A tree branch, with the words “WNC tourism economy” on it, all the leaves on the branch say “closed”. A Caption underneath reads “The color of money (lost)” 
  • Cartoon 5: A door labeled Re-election with a closed sign hanging from it
  • Cartoon 6: A man stands behind a heavily barricaded door and two boarded windows, Beside him stands a small machine with arms and legs labeled “Video gambling” the man exclaims “Hey, how did you get back In here?!” 
  • Cartoon 7: Caption reads “Camus, the Killer whale”, above a killer whale smoking a cigarette which remarks “At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.” 
  • Cartoon 8: 5 drunk bears, all in various positions or acts, caption above reads “Rummy bears”. 
  • Cartoon 9: A Ram labeled “Car Drivers” Charges a bicycle. 
  • Cartoon 10: A Doctor and an elephant in scrubs holding a chainsaw look at a medical chart labeled “Patient: Teacher, N.C Doctor: NCGA” The figure on the chart has had an arm a leg and the head removed, with the head labeled “pay” the leg “tenure” and the arm “assistants”. The doctor asks “So, Doctor, these are the cuts you recommend?” to which the elephant responds “Yes, we have to kill the patient to save him”

Box 13:

• Folder 1 (dated) 2013  
  • Cartoon 1: An elephant and Barack Obama stand on either side of a cliff over a river, they both tell the other “you first.” Caption above reads “Cliff Diving”. 
  • Cartoon 2: On the left a man complains “Unaffordable Rents! Downtown panhandlers! Worsening traffic! Police problems! Greedy Politicians…”, A card in the middle reads “We interrupt your regularly scheduled rant to bring you : FALL!” the same man on the right, now wearing a sweater and surrounded by leaves, thinks “What was I saying?” 
  • Cartoon 3: A bird stands on a branch above a nest with 5 baby birds. The adult bird says, while pointing away from the nest, “Go feed YOURSELVES! After you’re hatched, you are on your own. 
  • Cartoon 4: A hotel attendant and man in sunglasses look from a window underneath a sign that says “Pritchard Park Place, A Nother hotel™. The Attendant says to the man “Yessir, you’ll be looking right down over the drum circle. That’s why we call this the “Lord of the Jungle” suite!”
  • Cartoon 5: 3 artists work near tents within a wood fence, behind them stand 2 porta potties. 2 men stand by a sign in front of the artists that says “Relocated Arts District. One of the men, who is leaning against the sign remarks “Yeah after all of the development and gentrification, this is what we can afford.” A caption above reads “The new “RAD”” 
  • Cartoon 6: An elephant stands in front of a redistricting map. The map has been drawn to carefully cover circles that say “D” and exclude circles that say “R”. The elephant looks over its shoulder and says “What?” a caption above reads “Voter Fraud’
  • Cartoon 7: Blank page, a note that reads “Note to editor: Run stock mass shooting editorial cartoon here; no expiration date” 
  • Cartoon 8: Drew Reisinger lies on an exercise bench and gives a thumbs up while Roy Cooper, then NC Attorney general holds a barbell with the words “Same sex marriage” on it. Both Cooper and Reisinger have their name on their clothes. Reisinger comments “Be safe. Always have a spotter” This is in reference to an October 2013 event where Buncombe county register of deeds Drew Reisinger held 10 same sex marriage licenses, despite a state ban on same sex marriage. 
  • Cartoon 9: Two men in tuxedos toss a bouquet of flowers to Roy Cooper, while saying “Okay, Roy, the bouquet is in your court”. This also references the previous event, because Roy Cooper who was the Attorney General at the time said that while he supported gay marriage personally, that wouldn’t stop him from upholding the law if it outlawed gay marriage. 
  • Cartoon 10: A woman in glasses and a suit with a name tag that says “WOS” holds bills labeled “WIC$” in either hand with a magnifying glass behind each hand that says “National” and “Media” while remarking “Hey, look what I found!”  Caption underneath reads  “”Peer”  pressure”
•  Folder 2 (dated) 2013 dated
  • Cartoon 1: Martin Luther King Jr as an angel beckons to god from a cloud, pointing down and exclaiming “Hey, come here! This was in that dream i was telling you about!!”. From the direction MLK Jr was pointing comes the words “I do solemnly swear that I, Barack H Obama, will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States. This is in reference to MLK’s “I have a dream” speech and Obama’s second inaugural address. 
  • Cartoon 2: A single snowflake falls in the middle of the page, underneath in large letters “DOOM! PANIC! CHAOS! TERROR!” the snowflake is also laughing “Heh-heh…”. This is probably in reference to North Carolina’s notorious over reaction to low amounts of snow. 
  • Cartoon 3: A single snowflake falls and chuckles, surrounded by the words “DOOM! PANIC! CHAOS! EMPTY SHELVES!” 
  • Cartoon 4: An old man wearing a tie, and shawl, sits in a rocking chair embroidering. A blown up view of the embroidery shows that it says “If you can’t say something nice, say it in an email. This is in reference to a 2013 controversy around candidate Cecil Bothwell.
  • Cartoon 5: Two depictions of Cecil Bothwell, one in light clothes smiling, and another in darker clothes frowning. Between them is a laptop, on the screen is an email screen that says “ To: M. Hunt you make me want to ..PUKE..”. The Bothwell in Light clothes says “I’m on your side.” and the other says “…Not his…” A caption above the one in white reads “Dr. Cecil” and below the other reads “Mr. Hyde” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man and woman sit at a counter drinking coffee. The woman exclaims “The North Carolina utilities commission is having only one hearing about issues like the Duke-Progress merger, Fracking, Nuclear Power, and alternatives, and its down in RALEIGH!! How about one in WNC?!!” the man responds “It seems we’re hearing impaired”. 
  • Cartoon 7: A man sits in a chair, beside him is a chair with “district 2” written on it. The man asks “Look, I got MY seat. Would you PLEASE start the music again?!” 
  • Cartoon 8: Three people, the first one, probably Cecil Bothwell, has a CB on his shirt while saying “Gun shows!! City Property!! BAN!!!” The second, who is wearing a shirt that says “well regulated enough!!!” says “He’s crazy if he thinks that is going to happen.” The third person, a woman in business casual attire says to the second man, “Don’t say”Crazy” say “Slashed budget for mental health care casualty”.” 
  • Cartoon 9: An elephant wearing a decorative blanket that says “N.C. Government 2013” shouts “Beat it, squeaky!!!’ at a donkey, which has mouse ears and is running away while saying “eeeeekk!!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A baby runs and dodges bullets. Around the front of the baby is a sash, partially obscured, it reads ‘2013” “Happy New”
• Folder 3 (dated) 2013 
  • Cartoon 1: A News woman speaks directly forward, beside a graphic that says “Asheville” and has a hat on the words. The news woman says “In yet another move to strip Asheville of its assets, Rep. Moffitt… Has introduced legislation that would seize the citys “funky vibe” merging it with a newly created “Metropolitan hipster district” (MHD). In compensation, city residents would each receive a hat one size too small.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A caption at the top left reads, Man-made objects visible from space…”, on the left is a line drawn through mountains, labeled “great wall of china” on the right the earth is zoomed out with a giant building on it labeled “Biltmore park”
  • Cartoon 3: Two babies sit in a crib. One of the babies says “First he came after our water…”. The view then changes to behind the babies, looking at a TV, on screen is the writing “Moffitt (R) Buncombe “No public nipples” “headline news… more grocery stores…” and the baby says “Now he wants our milk, too!” 
  • Cartoon 4: Close view of a desk, Caption reads “Due to slashed funding, teachers have to purchase many of their own supplies…” A bullet list on the desk reads ”Glue, Hand Sanitizer, Tissues, pencils, glock, ammo, counseling to recover from IDIOTIC general assembly gun initiatives!!!!”
  • Cartoon 5: A sign reads “Leftanasti Trace Buncombe County’s most luxurious development Lots starting…” Below this are 3 crossed out prices, 700s, 500s, 100s. Below the final crossed out price is a sloppily written sign that says “wattya got?” 
  • Cartoon 6: A climber plants a flag with a circle and the word “TIM” on it, on a hill, the climber remarks “I hereby claim this for my legislative agenda,…” “… and it shall be forever known as “Mount Molehill”. 
  • Cartoon 7: A large caption takes up most of the middle of this cartoon “The creature from the coal ash lagoon” below is a depiction of the creature from the Black lagoon. In a circle is “Coming to a River near you”
  • Cartoon 8: A farmer stands beside a row of eyebrows growing out of the soil, with a sign in the row that says “Extra fancy”, caption above reads “raising eyebrows” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two panels. First panel, two men wearing short sleeves. One of the men says “In Asheville, If you don’t like the weather, just wait fifteen minutes…” second panel, there is now snow falling and the first man is now frozen, saying “but…you might not like it then, either.” while the second man slips on an ice slick. 
  • Cartoon 10: A hand holds up an MRI Scan in front of a patient . The MRI has a picture of a heart (?) with several arteries flowing to it. The biggest of which is labeled Merrimon Ave. the bottom of the Mri has “Ville, A 1/23/13”. The voice of the hand remarks “This is looking really congested!! I suggest you cut out drive-thrus, and resist riling up the activists.” The man thinks “dang”
• Folder 4 (dated) 2013 
  • Cartoon 1: Cecil Bothwell sits at a desk with a laptop. An arrow shows that the screen is showing Facebook, and a post from Carl Mumpower, which reads “I may have extreme views, but I am not willing to compromise on things I believe to be true. I don’t mind being ridiculed; nothing will stand in the way of what, in my opinion, is RIGHT. Bothwell responds to this “Like, AND SHARE!!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A Native American man, stands in an enclosure, surrounded by  bears which are looking at him from behind fences above the enclosure. The man says “Forgive us, elders” 
  • Cartoon 3: A smiling old man wearing sneakers and a backpack with “Progress” written on the side and the Progress energy logo, climbs onto the back of a kneeling man. Caption above reads “Rate Hike”  
  • Cartoon 4: A man with a beard sips tea while looking upwards where 3 predator drones circle him. The caption reads “Tea and Drones”
  • Cartoon 5: Terry Bellamy faces a crowd of frowning people labeled “LBGT community” while holding a sign that says “Bellamy for Congress”. Bellamy says to the crowd “While it’s true that I don’t approve of you, it’s also true I’m going to need all of the votes I can muster!!” 
  • Cartoon 6: 3 students talk. One asks “I wonder how they are going to grade the new bible study class.” to which another student replies pass/smite.” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man stands at a food truck, the back of which reads “GAS UP” “Best Chili East of Texas!” behind the man is a sign “Masonic Temple Parking lot”. The man asks the food truck attendant, “Do I need a password or a secret handshake to get some chili?” 
  • Cartoon 8: A woman pulls up her shirt to reveal two handguns on her chest in place of breasts while asking “But THIS is okay, right?
  • Cartoon 9: Pat Mcrory and a donkey fly in a wicker hand basket towards flames. In the airflow behind them is the words “Refusing federal Medicaid $” “Firing all board members” “Cutting unemployment benefits” and ““Hiring” Art Pope”. The donkey asks “Is it getting hotter, or is it just me?” to which Pat responds “It’s me!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A man swings at a tree with an ax. On the tree are the words “National Park Service”. A Squirrel on the tree looks at the man worried while thinking “How many more cuts can it withstand?!”
• Folder 5 (dated) 2013 
  • Cartoon 1: The world Equality is most of the drawing. The Letter “E” is replaced by the logo of the HRC. Besides the Y is 2 male stick figures and 2 female stick figures holding hands
  • Cartoon 2: A man walks by a parking meter. The parking meter has a sign propped against the front of it “Need $1.25 – Trying to get to solvency”. And is saying “Bless you, sir.” Caption above reads “Parkhandling” 
  • Cartoon 3: A hunter holding a shotgun stands in line at a liquor store. The side of the counter has a sign that says “B 21 or B Gone”. A caption box on the left reads “North Carolina considers allowing hunting on Sundays…”  The clerk says to the hunter “Alcohol, however, is still out of season until noon.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A grave with a flower and dog tags lain on top, on one side is a TV, on it is “10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War” the gravestone has the writing “seems like yesterday…” 
  • Cartoon 5: A couple rides away in a car, with cans tied to it, a sign on the back reads “Just validated” the cars vanity license plate reads “Benefits” and a flag flying from the front of the car has “Buncombe county domestic partners”. 
  • Cartoon 6: A hand wearing a glove that has the American flag on it adds something into a petri dish, where the bacteria spells out “She asked for it”. Caption above is “Rape Culture” 
  • Cartoon 7: Caption “Down at the APD…” Underneath is a revolving door, beside it is a plaque that says “Chief”.
  • Cartoon 8: Two pictures of politicians, Caption reads “First rule of politics, Memo to Hank: Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A family stands outside a ticket booth. A sign above it reads “Welcome to Ingles Bele Chere 2014” The man at the ticket booth tells the family, “sorry, no coupons”. 
• Folder 6 (dated) 2013
  • Cartoon 1: The Grim Reaper holds a list of names, “Roger Ebert, Margaret Thatcher, Annette Funicello, Jonathan Winters, Frank Bank”, and remarks “Wrong cliche, I know. But everything else is just speculation now, isn’t it?” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man holds his arms out and looks to the sky and says “Ahh… the smells of spring!! The arson bouquet of the River Arts District, The idjit blossoms down in Raleigh, and the return of the heady B.O. blooms from the hipster groves!”
  • Cartoon 3: A door, with a caption beside it that reads “This is me, behind closed door, praying for a little more separation between church and city” with an arrow pointing at the door
  • Cartoon 4: A Man, with “NC” on his chest, meant to symbolize the state runs away from a stampede of elephants. Caption reads “Stampede!”. 
  • Cartoon 5: An elephant wearing a backwards baseball cap, baggy pants and a shirt that says “NC GOP” exclaims “Yo yo yo..! I’m all ABOUT getting up in your business!!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two men in suits sit on the ground, between them is a box with “Military-Industrial complex theater”. One of the men has a puppet of Kim Jong Un while the other man laughs and says “Bravo!!!” 
  • Cartoon 7: A church sign for the “First church of we’re in charge now, suckas” Above it the caption reads “NC GOP legislators propose official religion…”  the sign features “Today’s topic “What constitution?” “
  • Cartoon 8: Features Kim Jong Un wearing a shirt with “From my cold, dead hands. ~ Charlton Heston” written on it exclaims “You talking to ME?!?” “You want some of THIS ?!?” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two adults only legs visible, One with “NC Republican” and the other with “Legislature” written on their pants, surround a child, with Asheville written on his shirt. The “NC Republican” is taking a toy plane from the child while saying “Gimme that!!” and the “Legislature” is saying “Im Thirsty!!” while reaching for a glass the child is holding, the child protests saying “Hey…”. 
  • Cartoon 10: The HRC Equality symbol sits atop a wooden structure
• Folder 7 (dated) 2013 
  • Cartoon 1: One man, holding a proxy ballot shouts at another man “If those new candidates get elected, they will make every FBEMC member buy a $50,000 solar system!!!!” the other man responds “Who told you that, Santa Claus, or the Tooth Fairy?” the FBEMC is the French Broad electric membership corporation.
  • Cartoon 2: An elephant fires a cannon with “Raleigh” written underneath, at Asheville, where a Mushroom cloud tosses an airplane and water pipe into the air. Caption underneath reads “All is NOT quiet on the western front” 
  • Cartoon 3: Carl Mumpower walks with his eyes closed and fists clenched over a mat that says “GOP” caption reads “Carl Mumpower threatens to leave the Republican Party.” “The Republican party says, “Don’t let the door smack you on the way out.” “ 
  • Cartoon 4: Caption reads “Obituary cartoon fun time ™ anyone can do it!!” and “Just add your own favorite dead celebrity cutout ™ (not included) Clouds, harp, and smarm extra”. Features cut outs such as “Pearly gates”, “Halo and wings” and “Saint Peter with the “Book””
  • Cartoon 5: A man raises his hand to hit a young child, behind him a ghost reaches to grab his arm. The ghost’s briefcase has the words “Defunded Pisgah legal services” on it. 
  • Cartoon 6: Uncle Sam sits blindfolded and bond to a chair in front of a camera. Behind him stand two masked men with guns. Uncle Sam states “I have come to believe that expanded background checks and banning large ammunition clips are not in my best interest at this time. I have not been coerced by my captors in any way.”
  • Cartoon 7: A man soaks in  a cup. On the cup is a towel with the initials “N R” as well as the writing “Big Diversion 128 oz of political posturing”. The man thinks to himself “Ahh… the people’s business” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two men argue beside a podium with “Buncombe county commission” on it. One of the men says “FINE!!! What CAN I discriminate against ?!?” to which the other man responds “How about inequality?” 
  • Cartoon 9: A plane flies through a strand of DNA. On the wings of the plane is written “Agent Orange”
  • Cartoon 10: Caption reads “NC GOP Legislators try to repeal law that mandates disclosure of lobbyists’ names and amounts they contribute…” A man slips a dollar into the back pocket of an elephant in a suit and says “Don’t ask…” and the elephant replies “And i won’t tell.”
• Folder 8 (dated) 2013 
  • Cartoon 1: Caption “Overheard at the Coffee house…”. Two men sit having coffee. One says; “If Asheville secedes from N.C., and becomes a sovereign nation, then taking our water and airport would be acts of WAR!” to which the other man asks “Do we have any missiles that will reach Raleigh? 
  • Cartoon 2: Caption reads “Restraining order” while a man, held back by a cloth reaches for a glass of water on a table and thinks “I have me a powerful thirst.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A statue of Barack Obama is covered by three pigeon droppings with each labeled: “IRS” “AP” “Benghazi”. Caption in front of the statue is “Somedays you’re the statue…”. In front of the statue 2 pigeons high five, with one being labeled “FOX” and the other wearing a hat
  • Cartoon 4: A decorative metal arch that is covered in various signs. The arch said “Replaced artists district” but “eplaced” is drawn on a paper sign covering the original writing. Signs around the base say “Gentrified towers, coming fall 2014…1 and 2 bd apartments $900-1500” “The golden egg a murder mystery RAD theater june 12-24” and “foreclosure notices” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man stands on a stage under a spotlight holding a microphone. The caption above reads “Instead of the comedian’s sister, South Carolina elects the comedian…”. The man on stage is saying “take my wife. Someone. please. “ and “Who knew the Appalachian trail went all the way to Argentina?!?” this is in reference to Mark Sanford’s extra marital affair and later reelection.  
  • Cartoon 6: A small stickman stands beside a line and points at it while saying “see that red line? I wouldn’t cross it if I were you. No sir, just try it and see what happens. You’ll be s..o..r..r..y….” 
  • Cartoon 7: Caption “Q. how did N.C. legislators get to Oklahoma for the A.L.E.C conference? A. Frequent liar miles”. In the background a plane streaks through the clouds while voices coming from inside exclaim “Yee-haw!!”. A.L.E.C is the American Legislative Exchange Council 
  • Cartoon 8: A man and a woman sit having coffee. The man says “I don’t want my tax money paying for a futile city lawsuit to stop the seizure of our water system!” To which the woman responds “Yeah, we’ll need that money for our higher water bills. 
  • Cartoon 9: A close view of a shirt collar tag that says “1st world style 100% Child labor — made in horrible conditions” “Garment care — wash hands”
  • Cartoon 10: A man and child stand on a park bench surrounded by water emanating stink lines, in front of them is a geyser of water, labeled “MSD sewage spill” Caption above them reads “Real Jeopardy!” (in the same style as the Jeopardy TV show logo) and “What is ~ “No contingency plan”?”
• Folder 9 (dated)  2013 
  • Cartoon 1: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin look through a window at a baby in a hospital maternity unit. The baby’s crib has the nametag “America, U.S.” Washington: “Look, Tom, She’s smiling!” Jefferson: “She has your hair, Ben.” Franklin: “Who says you can’t have more than one father?” Caption above reads “Happy fathers day!” 
  • Cartoon 2: Two panels. First panel, a woman with a dog calls out from shore to a man in a canoe in a river asking “Excuse me, I’m looking for Azalea dog park.” Second panel, the canoe has traveled farther revealing a dog in the back of the Canoe, the man calls from off frame, “You found it.” 
  • Cartoon 3: Two men walk in front of a large wave with the words “Asheville pushback” visible in the water. One of the men says to the other “Don’t worry, we’ll get the water, sooner or later…” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man stands charging his car at an electric charging station. Behind him a man in a suit pulls his wallet from his pocket while holding a piggy bank in his other hand labeled “N.C.GOP Hybrid tax” and saying “I’m gonna need a little charge, too…” 
  • Cartoon 5: An older man wearing a beret and long coat stands beside the Tomb Of the Unknown soldier which is inscribed with “Tomb of the Unknown soldier killed in action D-day June 6, 1944”. The man is meant to represent a retired veteran and he is thinking “I know who you are, brother.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man stands beside a car while it charges, but the charging cable goes to the man’s back pocket which opens the same way as the fuel cap. The charging cable is labeled “NC hybrid tax” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two panels. First panel: Two men in a locker room wearing basketball clothes, one of the men says “Good game, man. Did you find an affordable place to live?”. Second panel: The other responds from inside a locker “Yes.”
  • Cartoon 8: Several people holding protests signs stand inside a pie. Their signs say things such as “Error 404: Democracy is not found” “Free speech is not a zone” “occupy your mind” “We’re still here” “Occupy everywhere” “We are the 99%” and “Let all the dreamers wake the nation”. Caption beneath reads “Occupie”  
  • Cartoon 9: Two students stand in front of a blackboard. Above the blackboard is the Alphabet, but T and A are missing from the alphabet. On the board is written “hello cl ss my n me is Ms.  urner. I m your e cher!” and “your e cher ssis n : “. The kids ask “Where are the T.-A.s?” To which someone off frame responds “The state took them away. 
  • Cartoon 10: A bottle of beer, Caption “Asheville loses “beer city USA” title… Handles it gracefully.” The bottle has various writing on it such as “we was robbed brewery” “brew hoo hoo” and “A most Lachrymose ale”
• Folder 10 (dated)  2013
  • Cartoon 1: Four police officers protest around the Vance monument. Their signs say “Hey ho the chief must go!’ “Free Wilke” and “Occupy APD”. A camera crew is saying to one of the officers “you’re cool, man, as long as you stay on the sidewalk and don’t impede the flow of traffic. 
  • Cartoon 2: Two men stand by a fence looking into a pasture, In the middle of the pasture are the words “Bele Chere”. One of the men says “It was time.”. This is in reference to putting something out to pasture meaning to force someone to retire and the Asheville music festival “Bele Chere” which ended in 2013 after a 35 year run.
  • Cartoon 3: A man talks to a woman from behind a visitor center desk asking, “So, what brings you to Asheville? Our beautiful mountains? The Biltmore? The food? The beer? The music?” the woman responds, “The Abortion Clinic.” Caption above reads “Tourism 2.0” 
  • Cartoon 4: A police officer examines his shoe after just stepping in a pile of poop, and says “Look at that; clean as a whistle.”. However, a large piece of paper with “City council” written on it, hangs from the officer’s pants. The officer is probably meant to represent William Anderson
  • Cartoon 5: Two bears look out from a box into nature. Reference and meaning unknown. 
  • Cartoon 6: A rain gauge with arms floats underwater. 
  • Cartoon 7: The front door of “The Health Adventure” however a paper signed taped to the door underneath reads “closed for health reasons”
  • Cartoon 8: An elephant, meant to represent the NCGA says “We don’t want a foreign religion-based legal code to rule over North Carolinians, but we’re okay with our religion based legal code ruling over North Carolina’s women… Got a problem with that?” 
  • Cartoon 9: A view of the Pyramid and sphinx  but a crowd of people is covering most of the monuments with only the top. Caption reads “The Tide is rising…” This is in reference to the Egyptian Revolution of June 2013
  • Cartoon 10: Police officer Wilke blows a Whistle from which the words “Police chief cover-up” are coming. Caption underneath reads “Blow that whistle!”
• Folder 11 (dated) 2013
  • Cartoon 1: Three people in suits with shovels toss shovelfuls of sand on a couple sitting at the beach. One of the people in suits is labeled “NCGA” the second “Developers”, while the third is probably meant to be Esther Mannheimer. Caption underneath reads “The “weak mayor” system” 
  • Cartoon 2: Caption “One more thing that falls short of its claims…” Below are Vitamins, Hand Sanitizers, and a man, holding a bag of money, meant to represent the NCGA. 
  • Cartoon 3: Art pope plays with a puppet meant to represent Tim Moffitt. The muppet is saying “Me Tim Muppet! Me likey water, redistricting, and my best friend, Alec!!” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man pours different ingredients into a mixing bowl which is decorated with “2014”, his ingredients are “Hopes”, “random events” “Fears” “Desires and expectations”. As the Man adds ingredients he comments “I have NO idea what this is going to taste like! To which someone off frame responds “One never does, does one?” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two versions of the same child, one then and one now. The “Then” child is making a strange face and the “Now” child stares blankly at his phone. In the middle is the caption “Stop it, Jimmy! Your face will FREEZE like that if you don’t !!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A close view of a laptop on a diner counter. On screen is “WE’RE NO.1!! Asheville tops the list of cities that are listed on meaningless lists.” 
  • Cartoon 7: 3 protestors all shout “We have spoken!!”, one holds a sign that says “Moral Monday”. Beside them an elephant in a suit shrugs and says “Did you hear something?” 
  • Cartoon 8: An arm holding a sign, sticks out from underneath an elephants foot, the sign has the quote “Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom -George Washington Carver” 
  • Cartoon 9: 4 people stand in front of the entrance to a maze, Above the entrance is a sign that says “VOTE” and a state outline on the Maze’s wall.  At the back of the maze is a ballot box
  • Cartoon 10: Caption “What new, fun & relevant festivals will rise from the ashes of Bele Chere, Goombay, and L.A.A.F.F?” Below are three posters: “Living wage fest August 25-27 “where hard-working people have something to show for it”” “Affordable housing fair, come on in, the price is fine!” and “Downtown after the tourists go home, June Phil Umup & The Potholes, July Chiefs of police, August Coffee shop hipsters, September Itz ourwater band” 
  • Cartoon 11: A crack running down the median of a road on the parkway, meant to depict the crack that formed in July of 2013. Caption reads “The crack in the parkway could be a metaphor for many things- the growing gap between the haves & have nots. The distance between Raleigh and Reality. The schism separating blacks & whites…” “Or it could just be all the *@🗲!&# RAIN WE’VE HAD!!!!” 
• Folder 12 (undated)  2013 
  • Cartoon 1: An older man and woman sit in their living room reading. The man is reading the newspaper and comments “All this fuss about gay marriage! Why can’t they be miserable like the rest of us? 
  • Cartoon 2: A paper bag with “Z’s” coming from it. Caption: “Sleeping bag” 
  • Cartoon 3: Caption: “The new Tibetan singing bowl app”. A monk spins his finger in a circle on his phone which emits a humming “mmmmmmmmmmm” 
  • Cartoon 4: A naked man bent over almost walking on all fours, on his back are giant letters spelling “FEAR” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man with long hair and a beard plays a drum, with a sign that says “Will stop playing & chanting, for tips”. Around him, bystanders give him money while looking annoyed with one asking “Please” and another thinking to himself “Smart Business model…” 
  • Cartoon 6: 3 people in the aisle of a grocery store. Two of the people, a man and woman, appear to have just finished arguing and the woman is crying. The third person, a grocery store worker, speaks into a walkie talkie saying “Clean up, Aisle five, broken heart” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man covers his face as arms fall from the sky around him, caption “Armageddon” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man sits in a hospital bed, with headphones in his ear attached to an IV bag filled with music notes. Caption: “iVee” 
  • Cartoon 9: 3 arrows with a caption by each “🠉 Good cholesterol” “🠋Bad Cholesterol” “🠈 Ambivalent cholesterol” 
• Folder 13 (undated)  2013 
  • Cartoon 1: A woman checking out at a grocery store apologizes to the clerk saying “I’m sorry, I left my bags in the…” but the cashier holds up a hand and points beside him where what appears  to be a priest listens to a veiled box. 
  • Cartoon 2: A man faces away from a woman on her knees with an exercise ball and says “Okay, whatever your name is, give me 100 reps” caption: “Impersonal Trainer” 
  • Cartoon 3: A drawing of 3 different animals. A lion which is labeled “Carnivore”, A cow, labeled “Herbivore” and a teenager labeled “whatevore” 
  • Cartoon 4: A caveman followed by a winding dotted line showing his wandering walking path and holding a spear. Caption: “Meanderthal” 
  • Cartoon 5: An older man with long hair and a beard in a tie dye shirt walks towards a tree with his arms outstretched. The tree holds up an arm while saying “Slow down, turbo, I prefer handshakes” 
  • Cartoon 6: A woman in Victorian attire. Caption: “Victorian’s Secret”. Two arrows point to the top and bottom half of the woman labeled “Somewhere in there…”
  • Cartoon 7: A man cowers in fear in front of a flying sweater. Caption reads: “Angoraphobia” “Fear of wide open sweaters” 

Box 14:

• Folder 1 (dated) 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: The back of a statue with no arms and legs sits on a pedestal behind a rope barrier. A sign in front of the statue reads “Anus de Milo” 
  • Cartoon 2: An elephant blocks a narrow path, behind it stand 3 people, one of whom is holding a flag with “Buncombe Co. Delegation” on it and saying “We’re just going to have to find a way around it.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A homeless man sits on a bench covered by laptops instead of a blanket. 
  • Cartoon 4: Two women talk and gesture to a man wearing a football jersey, holding a magic wand, with an antenna headband and fairy wings. One of the women is saying “Eddie is obsessed with fantasy football.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man in a football jersey with a flag that says “Fighting teens” approaches another man sitting on his porch, asking “Hey Joe, where’s your dad?”. The man replies “He’s already at church, Bob.” First man: “It’s Friday night! High school football!” Second man: “Like I said…” 
  • Cartoon 6: A cop hands a ticket to a driver inside a car with many bumper stickers including “Live simply” “coexist” “Yoga saved my life” and “Jesus saves, Moses invests, but only Buddha pays dividends” The cop says to the driver: “Yes, Actually I AM the bumper sticker police. 
  • Cartoon 7: A man stands on the hood of a truck behind a theater backdrop of Asheville and shouts to a man sweeping on the other side of the backdrop “Hurry up! It takes an hour to get home, remember?” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man stand at a corner, holding his hand over his face and bracing against the wall, wearing a shirt that says “2014”. Around the corner from the man is a barricade with a warning sign that says “2015 be prepared to… just be prepared!!!” 
  • Cartoon 9: Large numbers “2015” with each number having the façade and features of a hotel. Chinese writing above translates to, caption below reads “Year of the hotel”.
  • Cartoon 10: Caption: “The all-purpose, what’s not to like, Non-offensive holiday greeting” below six people all smile at each other. One woman is carrying a bag which says “Go the extra smile”
• Folder 2 (dated) 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: Close view of a cars bumper. The cars license plate says “U.S.A. – INSANITY – First in gun deaths” and a bumper sticker beside the plate says “Guns don’t kill people. But they sure make it easier.” 
  • Cartoon 2: 4 people sit in a restaurant being served by a waitress, each of the people with their profession captioned above them. The people at the table are a web designer, a programmer, a digital filmmaker, and an app developer. The waitress is labeled “Same old low pay service industry wage slave”. Caption: “Brave new city”
  • Cartoon 3: A drawing of two sides of a coin. The first side of the coin features a drawing of “Hotel Asheville” and has “In them we trust ™” and “One tourist dollar” written around the edges. The other side has “For rent” in the center of the coin with “City of Asheville” above it and “If you can afford it” below.
  • Cartoon 4: A police officer questions 2 people holding instruments asking “Do you folks have a permit to be out here asking for money?” The people respond “ Why do you think we’re out here asking for money?!” 
  • Cartoon 5: A hand from the sky pours a blender full of words into the mountains. The blender is full of words such as beer, crafts, music, restaurants, quirky, nature, drum circles, art, and best of lists. Caption reads : “Step 1. Assemble ingredients” “Step 2. Blend” “Step 3. Enjoy!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A man sits with a book at a drawing table while thinking “Cartoonist’s block for dummies…” 
  • Cartoon 7: Caption: “At Duke/progress energy corporate headquarters” drawing of Charlottes downtown and the former Duke headquarters at 550 South Tryon. A voice comes from the Duke headquarters saying “ We’ll send all of the coal ash to Asheville. You can add it to cement, and those hotels aren’t being made out of THATCH! HA HA HA!”. This is a reference to the 2014 Dan River coal ash spill. 
  • Cartoon 8: A school bus stopped with two children looking from the back. The bus features an excessive amount of lights, and other devices to warn other drivers such as signs that read “YOU! STOP!” “Whoa!” and “What if they were YOUR kids?!”
  • Cartoon 9: A man and woman walk and talk, they are wearing winter clothes. The man says “Asheville is on the list of top ten cities to retire to…” The woman responds “…For police chiefs?” This is another reference to Chief William Anderson, who chose to retire in late 2014
  • Cartoon 10: Fire chief Scott Burnette looks at a fire while holding a dripping garden hose. The fire forms the words “APD” and Burnette thinks to himself “I think we might need a bigger hose.”
• Folder 3: (dated) 2014
  • Cartoon 1: Two boats each with a single occupant, float on an uneven body of water, which is labeled “Increased water fees” The occupant of the first boat, which is larger and higher in the water, calls out “If a rising tide raises all ships, why is mine higher than yours?” The person on the second boat, a small wooden sailboat answers “Maybe it’s because you use more Tide.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A depiction of the classic scene from The Sound of Music, where Maria dances in the pasture, but Maria is sneezing and irritated by the pollen which fills the air. The caption above reads “ 𝅘𝅥𝅯The hills are alive with the sound of sneezing♬”. 
  • Cartoon 3: View of someone texting and driving, the text on their phone reads “jst passed 2 bicycles riding side x side ☹! no rspct 4 the rules of the road!!!!” a sign just visible over the dashboard reads “Share the guilt” 
  • Cartoon 4: A hand plays a Theremin with the vertical antenna replaced by former governor Pat McCrory. As the hand gets closer to McCrory he makes noises: “scheduling conflict” “I was disinvited” “*!@#& protestors!” Caption reads “weird sounds” 
  • Cartoon 5: Caption “Tip of the Iceberg”. Drawing of an iceberg, which is much larger underwater, and has two eye holes, meant to look like the White hood of a Klansman. 
  • Cartoon 6: A bear, who is holding a police badge, taps a man who is graffiting a wall saying: “..Ahem..”. The caption: “Recent bear study: “they’re here in the city; might as well put them to work.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Caption “Ron & Todd’s excellent primary adventure” Inside a telephone booth are Ron Moore and Todd Williams, the two candidates for Buncombe counties District attorney in 2014.Williams is saying: “DUDE!!” and Moore says “..woah.. ..innocent?.. ..dude..”. This is a reference to Bill and Teds excellent adventure. 
  • Cartoon 8: Three members sit at a podium with their heads bowed. The emblem on the front of the podium says “SCS” “Separation of church and state”. The man in the center says “let us pray, to the deity or non-deity of your choice, that something will actually get accomplished here today.” Captioned: “This would be ok…” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two men talk at a gas station while one refills their car. The first man says to the man refilling his car “Nice machine you got there!” to which he replies “It’s a new Buncombe Democrat hybrid™. Runs on a bit of the old, a bit of the new.” 
  • Cartoon 10: 3 foxes sit behind a desk labeled “state ethics commission”. In front of the desk another fox, labeled “Tim” holds a chicken labeled “Turner” which is squawking. All three foxes declare “Complaint dismissed!” simultaneously. This is in reference to a state ethics investigation into Tim Moffitt, encouraged by his opponent, Brian Turner.
• Folder 4: 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: A view of Asheville with a welcome sign in the foreground. The sign reads “Welcome to Asheville check-in at front desk”. All of the buildings in Asheville are different hotels.
  • Cartoon 2: Tim Moffitt, wearing a shirt that says “What I really want is to be speaker.” gives a thumbs up.
  • Cartoon 3: Several people all bow down before an elephant wearing ornate clothes and sitting on a throne. Caption reads “city council urged to forge a “better relationship” with state legislators”. The elephant is shouting at the people in front of him “Not enough groveling! More groveling!!!” 
  • Cartoon 4: An obese man leans against a wooden fence while saying “don’t need no greenways. Don’t do much walking. And you don’t want to see me in bicycle shorts.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A giant My Little Pony (rainbow dash?) character walks towards a cowering man while thinking “..my little bully..”
  • Cartoon 6: Several people circle around a chair labeled “Martin’s seat”. Caption beneath reads “And where it stops, nobody knows…”. This is probably in reference to the death of Martin Nesbitt, then NC senator from Asheville and his seat in the North Carolina Senate. 
  • Cartoon 7: Three people crawl on their hands and knees across a desert. A sign in front of them reads “next grocery store 3 Mi” One man is saying “..water, water..” and another says “Fresh fruit and vegetables!” Caption above reads “WNC: Food desert” 
  • Cartoon 8: Depiction of the same man over 3 different years. The first man, from 1989 says “I hope they DO widen I-26. Daddy gets so mad when he’s stuck in traffic.” The second, from 2014 says “Can we FINALLY do something about that BRIDGE?!” The third, from 2059 now says “I can’t drive anymore, So I don’t care WHERE YOU PUT IT!!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man stands on a stage while beside him an auctioneer speaks into a microphone saying “Lot #23 – This candidate has a low upkeep, responds well to commands, and can be acquired for a generous “Contribution”. What am I bid?” one man leans forward from the crowd saying “ooh, ooh, want!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A close view of a desk drawer which has a scroll in it. Caption reads “Do the hotels in Israel put Torah’s in the rooms?”
• Folder 5: (dated) 2014
  • Cartoon 1: Caption “Discomfort food”. Drawing features a plate of food and a glass full of liquid however the food is filled with shards of glass and emits stink lines, while large chunks float in the glass 
  • Cartoon 2: 5 people stand next to a Tree house with a sign over the door that says “Secular clubhouse”, One of the people carries a briefcase with “ACLU” written on it. The man carrying the ACLU briefcase turns to the man next to him, who has his arms crossed and is frowning, and says: “You have to let them have a ladder, too!”.
  • Cartoon 3: A drawing of a gong and some trash blowing in the wind. Caption reads: “Gong, with the wind” 
  • Cartoon 4: Vladimir Putin lunges while holding a barbell in each hand, walking over burning rubble.  The side of Putin’s track pants say “Russia” while the rubble spells out “Kiev” Putin thinks to himself “No gain, Ukraine.”. Caption reads: “power walking”. This is a reference to the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine, a precursor to the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. 
  • Cartoon 5: Pat McCrory walks, but in each of his footsteps a word is left behind, which write out “Duke Coal ash spill”. The caption reads “The Ashheel Governor”. 
  • Cartoon 6: 3 Black people sit at a bus stop. One says: “Black history month was all well & good, but I’m still hoping for a black future month.” to which someone else responds “amen.”.
  • Cartoon 7: A man sits in a recliner while watching tv and shouting at his tv, which has an elephant and “Vote NC”. The man says “I need an I.D, I can’t vote early, I can’t pre-register my teens; so many restrictions! What do you want me to do?!”.  The elephant on screen responds “You’re doing it”.
  • Cartoon 8: Two people stand admiring graffiti on a street. Next to them a homeless man crawls towards them on his hands and knees. One of the people comments “If this is art, we have a new definition of “Gallery crawl””. The homeless man says: “leh me ashk ya summin…” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two people stand near a busy road. Behind them are several billboards and signs for stores. One sign reads “Danger crossing” “Dr. Howard Chiropractor” “Veggie Hut” “Dr. Fine Chiropractor” “Meat Hut” “Slow Death smoke shop”. At the bottom of the sign is a picture of an officer saying “Don’t text & drive! Pay attention to this animated billboard.” There are other signs as well. One of the people asks “How much more can they cram in here?” to which the other responds “You know what P&Z says: The more the Merrimon.”
  • Cartoon 10: A man in a checkered suit and straw boater hat, stands in front of a family, holding the hose for a vacuum labeled “Duke”. Between the man and family is a large pile labeled “coal ash”. The man says “As a demonstration, I WILL clean up this mess that I have created. …BUT… you will have to PAY me to do it…”
• Folder 6: 2014
  • Cartoon 1: A groundhog(?) sits halfway in a mound with its arms up in anger while saying “Seriously, it’s -10° and snowing one day, and 60° and sunny the next…” “I don’t have a FREAKING CLUE!!!” “Can I PLEASE get back to the game ?!”.  
  • Cartoon 2: A man reads a newspaper outside a BlueCross Blue Shield office. The front of the newspaper reads “Blue Cross Blue shield of NC to offer same-sex benefits”. The building features two crosses and two shield. (Back) Two of BCBS’s Crosses, which are connected, speak to a BCBS shield saying “not only that, it’s Blue Shield Blue Shield as well!!” The shield responds “Sweet!”
  • Cartoon 3: A pipe, labeled “Asheville city water lines” runs across a bridge above a river which has skull symbols in it. The side of the bridge is covered with graffiti: “persistence is resistance” “CTS’ “Clean it up!” Caption reads: “water OVER the bridge” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man looks at a sign that says “Fall for watching rocks”. Behind the sign is a large rock on the ground 
  • Cartoon 5: A close view of the head on a glass of beer shows “Economic impact” spelled out in the foam. Caption reads: “Nice head” 
  • Cartoon 6: A view of a stream with two pairs of feet on the shore and a dead fish as well as one gasping for air. Pollutants in the stream spell out “CoalAsheville”. 
  • Cartoon 7: A man covered in newspaper looks in through a window at a woman. Caption reads “Peeper Mache” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two people walking. The first man asks “Do white people have a history month too?” to which the other responds “eleven of them. And until 1976, twelve of them. 
  • Cartoon 9: A bus fare sign for an “ART” bus. “ART” has been altered to stand for “Asheville redesigns transit”. The sign reads “EXACT FARE ONLY” “Mon-Sat $1” “Sun $847,000”. 
  • Cartoon 10: A crowd of people stand in an elevator smiling. Caption reads; “Mood Elevator”
• Folder 7: 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: An elderly couple talk in their living room. The woman asks “So, what did the doctor say?”. Her husband, who has just hung up a jacket with “Asheville” sewn to the back responds “Hipster replacement. As soon as possible.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A woman holding a baby in a baby carrier on her front, looks into the freezer at a grocery store. The baby thinks, while holding a hand out “Make up your mind!”. 
  • Cartoon 3: Three men watch TV. One man says “It’s a new reality show- “Survivor: city council”, But I don’t know how real it is…”. One man responds “ vote to keep the topless women on the Island.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two children, A black boy and white girl stand next to each other, embracing. Each holds a card celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The caption reads ”Playing the grace card”.
  • Cartoon 5: Two children look into an attic at a pile of boards, bricks, and boxes. One child asks “What did they do with them?” to which the other responds “Grandma says they used to stack them up, and put “Paperbacks”, and “albums ” and “Macrame ” on them.”  
  • Cartoon 6: A teacher sits at his desk reading a letter. Standing beside his desk is a student who has “NCGA” written on his sleeve. The letter says “Dear Mr. Woodson- This is to inform you that if you wish to continue to receive apples you will have to fight Ms. Andersen in Science & math for them.”
  • Cartoon 7: A plumber stands and stares blankly while holding a wrench and plunger. His nametag says “AAAAA plumbing” caption reads: “Post Traumatic Plumbing Disorder” “Symptoms include: -Exhaustion due to 36 hr. shifts -”horizon stare” -Feelings of being unable to keep up” “Treatment: -overtime -gratitude -hold off on the crack jokes” 
  • Cartoon 8: Three cats in suits sit on top of mountains drinking, smoking, laughing and holding bags of money. Below them black toxic water spills into the valley. John Denver appears on the side of one of the mountains, singing “Once was heaven, West Virginia…”. One of the cats spreads his hands above his heads spelling out “Profit trumps all!” in the sky. 
  • Cartoon 9: A mother with 2 children stands at a grocery checkout lane, manned by an Elephant, wearing an apron for “NC mart”. The woman asks “I’d like to use food stamps, please.” to which the elephant replies “Sorry, our computer is down.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Rep. Tim Moffitt’s face on a predator drone flies above mountains. The side of the drone has “N.C. Drone policy” written on it. Top caption “People need to feel safe and secure inside their homes. ~Rep. Tim Moffitt (R) Buncombe”. The head on the drone says “But they’ll have to come out sometime!”
• Folder 8: 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: A man holding a sign that says “-Asheville- Beer Mecca” asks a woman “Do you think that calling Asheville a “beer Mecca” would be offensive to Muslims?” to which the woman responds “Yes, twice” 
  • Cartoon 2: A box of “Frack ‘n’ snack. The ingredients on the box are “nevermind, but if you tell, you could wind up doing time.” The nutrition facts are “hahahahahahahahahaha…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A man sits on the ground against a brick wall. He has a sign beside him that says “Pay attention” with a can in front of it and another sign around his neck which says “Attention”.
  • Cartoon 4: 5 people hold sticks. Caption says “Muzzled Monday” 
  • Cartoon 5: A close view of a man’s zipper, with the caption underneath reading “penis fly trap”. The wearer of the pants exclaims “OUCH!!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A hand holds a portable device. On screen is “To continue in the “fast lane” please insert approved card in the designated slot. -FCC” 
  • Cartoon 7: A house blueprint, however the chalk outlines of two bodies are in the living room. Caption reads “domestic violence: we need a whole new set of blueprints” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man is carried on a sofa by 4 people wearing different service job uniforms. The man looks happy and throws coins and dollars down to the service workers. Caption reads: “sometimes this is what “Service economy” feels like…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man points towards a treadmill from which a “tread on me” flag flies. The man shouts “Forward, into the breach!” caption reads: “The resolutionary war” 
  • Cartoon 10: A small fairy wearing a top hat and suit floats by a face bundled in winter gear, Including a hat which says “Asheville” taking a piece of the person’s nose. Caption reads: “Tim Frost nipping at our nose”. The fairy thinks to itself “piece by piece…”
• Folder 9: 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: Two hands reach towards water, one labeled “NC Legislature” and the other “private industry” Caption reads “This water is your water, this water is my water. From the north fork reservoir, to the homes of Asheville. To business in the county, to our beer e-con-o-my… This water, should stay with you and me!*” “Not them.” “*with apologies to Woody Guthrie” 
  • Cartoon 2: Barack Obama is saying “No, Michele and I haven’t yet decided where we are going to live when we retire. But I CAN tell you that I am seriously looking into a 12 bones franchise.”
  • Cartoon 3: Tim Moffitt holds a water hose with no water coming from it. He is wearing a shirt that says “I went to superior court and all i got was this Lousy T-shirt” 
  • Cartoon 4: Tim Moffitt stands and stares, soaked in water. No caption
  • Cartoon 5: Caption “Tool belt”. A close view of a toolbelt, instead of tools Tim Moffitt, Thom Tillis and Pat McCrory are holstered in the belt. The front of the belt has “Alec” embroidered on it. 
  • Cartoon 6: A clock crawls on all fours. Caption reads “Sometimes you have to crawl before you can fly…” 
  • Cartoon 7: Top caption: “WNC against fracking” below a man, woman, bear, and bird all hold “WNCAF” signs. In the background a “WNCAF” sign stands at the top of a waterfall. Bottom caption: “A broad coalition” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two elephants stand in front of and behind a man labeled “N.C. Teachers”. The front elephant is handing the man a piece of paper labeled “Raise” while the elephant behind him takes a piece of paper from his pocket labeled “Tenure”. Caption reads “The ol’ bait & switch…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man looks at a woman carrying a baby on her front while thinking about a giant robot carrying the man in the same way. 
  • Cartoon 10: The scales of justice, labeled “Wake County superior court” are filled with water, which underneath spells out in puddles “Asheville Water”
• Folder 10: 2014
  • Cartoon 1: A turtle stands in front of a pair of legs which go off frame. The person is handing the turtle a citation. Behind the legs is a rabbit. The turtle is saying “but officer, I was going 10 mph under the speed limit!” to which the rabbit replies “In the passing lane!” 
  • Cartoon 2: Top caption “A rising tide doesn’t float every boat…”. Below a Buoy labeled “Same sex marriage” floats on the water while an angry looking man sits in a boat labeled “fundamentalists” which floats beneath the waterline. 
  • Cartoon 3: Two people sit and discuss, one saying “Another list! The 3 most common things in Asheville are beer, foot races & religion. The other man thinks “ “Beer run for Jesus” City.”
  • Cartoon 4: Top caption: “July 6th” Below a man looks underneath a chair where a dog hides saying “It’s okay, bud. You can come out now.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A family of 4 asks “Affordable housing in Asheville?” A mother and child beside them retorts “We can barely afford to be HOMELESS in Asheville!” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two skulls talk, with one saying: “The EPA has put up air monitors to test for TCE particles from the former CTS site!” the other skull responds “Alright! Now We’re getting somewhere!” This is in reference to the CTS superfund site in Asheville and the trichloroethylene (TCE) contaminants. 
  • Cartoon 7: Three people stand at a “Judges Stand” each holding up a sign which says “.10”. The three people are labeled “The law”, “Public opinion” and “Cecil haters” Caption above reads: “Imperfect .10” This is in reference to a July 2014 incident where Cecil Bothwell was arrested for DWI and blew a .10 on the breathalyzer” 
  • Cartoon 8: Cecil Bothwell looks in his rear view mirror while saying “A higher power doesn’t seem like such a bad idea right now…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A church sign for “1st house of worship” reads “Please stop putting those awful puns up here. Thank you -god” 
• Folder 11: 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: A view of a road with several speed bumps. Each bump has something written on it. “Drive like a responsible adult” “Not a bat out of H*!#” “got it?”. Beside the road a sign says “Children not wanting to die”. Caption above reads “Traffic Calming” 
  • Cartoon 2: A camera crew is filming a woman. Behind the camera an assistant talks to a police officer saying “Its a madcap comedy about a town that goes nuts when a film company goes there to make a movie. Could you block off traffic for us?” the officer responds “no.” 
  • Cartoon 3: A cowboy leans out of a chuckwagon handing a plate of food to another cowboy who says “Cookie, that ain’t no food truck, and them beans ain’t no Nouvelle American comfort street food.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two boxes labeled “out” and “in” sit on Tim Moffitt’s desk. Money is flying from the “out” box into the “In” box. Caption reads “Cash Flow” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two school children talk, with one saying “I heard your folks had a winning N.C. education lottery ticket! How much did they win?!” the other child responds “Not much. A pencil, half a notebook, and a week of work for a teacher assistant.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Caption: “Controlled burn”. An elephant meant to represent the NC GOP throws papers onto a roaring fire. The papers in the fire have various issues written on them such as “Raises for teachers” “accept Medicare funding” “punish duke” “Limit lobbying” “Freedom of choice” and “separation of church and state”. Behind the elephant a man stands, commenting “I don’t know… it looks out of control to me…” 
  • Cartoon 7: Caption: “Good Graffiti”. Below are two version of a sign for the Asheville watershed. The first sign says “Entering Asheville watershed No Stopping” the second says “Entering Asheville watershed No st/ealing!” But “ealing!” is a piece of wood nailed over top.
  • Cartoon 8: A pedestrian crossing sign. Caption beneath reads “Endangered species” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man and woman sit at a table in the middle of a cafe. The man is looking at a tablet and saying “Wow, it seems like there are 2 or 3 running events a DAY around here!” to which the woman responds “You got to do SOMETHING about all that beer.
  • Cartoon 10: A large man, labeled “NC legislator” Walks surrounded by 4 other people. Beside him a woman, holding a board which says “NC Teacher” asks “Excuse me, but would you happen to have a spare assistant?”
• Folder 12: 2014
  • Cartoon 1: A man stands at a desk for a bookstore, and asks “I’d like a copy of “Redistricting for dummies”.” The cashier responds “I’ll save you $10. Vote the way they want you to, or they will redistrict you.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Vladimir Putin sits in a high backed chair asking, “And your diagnosis comrade doctor?” To which someone off frame responds “Massive aggressive personality disorder, Mr. President.
  • Cartoon 3: Two streaks of snot. Caption: “When god has a cold…” “Phlegm trails”. 
  • Cartoon 4: A white man pats a Native American man on the shoulder and asks “Son, why don’t you name your team the “rednecks” and we can call it even?” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man in an “AVL” hat holds up a sign which says “not hungry” “Not” homeless” “need sidewalk” 
  • Cartoon 6: An old man in a rocking chair points at a young boy wearing a backpack, saying: “In my day, we had to walk 5 miles to school, in the snow, uphill both ways!” The boy responds “In my day, teachers get no respect, they have to buy supplies for their students, and the schools are falling down around us!” The old man replies “You win.” and the boy answers “not really.” 
  • Cartoon 7: Mike Fryar sits and Cecil Bothwell stands on either side of a table which has a box and a sign leaned against it which reads “Event parking $5 No exceptions!!” Top caption: “Community service”. Both seem to be directing traffic. This is probably in reference to Cecil Bothwell letting 64 people out of a parking garage in August of 2014.
  • Cartoon 8: Four people hold up signs which together write “Let it be” “Moral” “every” “day”. 
  • Cartoon 9: Three stop lights. The lights on the right and left have green arrows facing right and left, while the center stop light has 2 red lights. The caption underneath reads “The political process” 
  • Cartoon 10: Six giant bagels are stacked into a tower, surrounded by a road and small people. Voices from inside the tower call out “Where’s the lox, bubbe?” “needs a little schmear…” “Oy!” Caption: “Tower of bagel” as well as a pun on the biblical tower of babel, this may be a reference to Asheville’s annual Jewish food festival, Hardlox.
• Folder 13: 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: A man holding a rake stands beside a pile of leaves. In the leaves are the words “Teacher pay” “Local control” “Women’s rights” and “easy voting” 
  • Cartoon 2: A bible sits in a glovebox. The box has the Mission hospital logo beside it and “This bible has been sanitized for your protection” along the top. Caption reads “Problem solved”.
  • Cartoon 3: A shelf with some coins, paper, and a mug. Caption: “Shelfie” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two protestors hold signs saying “peaceful assembly is not a crime” and “read the constitution”. Behind them two police officers hold a camera and boom mic, with one saying “and… ACTION!!” Caption above reads: “Another movie shot in Asheville”
  • Cartoon 5: Three Christmas stockings all filled with ash and labeled “NC ratepayer” hang on a mantle place as well as a sign that says “Happy Holidays from your friends at Duke power/ progress” Caption above reads: “What duke plans to do with all that coal ash…”
  • Cartoon 6: Six people and a bulldog (possibly meant to represent UNCA) all smile and smell the air, with one person in the center of the group asking “Do you smell that ?!” to which another person responds “Fall!”
  • Cartoon 7: A man stands on the end of a dock with a fishing rod. Behind him an unseen figure carries away a bucket labeled “NC incentives” The man shouts “PAT!! Where are you going with the BAIT?” A fish in the water turns away from the man’s hook and thinks to itself “I’m outta here…” This is probably a reference to Pat McCrory cutting NC film incentives, essentially destroying NC’s film industry. 
  • Cartoon 8: Two scientists stand around a pumpkin, with one taking a bite of it from a fork and commenting “Brilliant, Hotchkiss! A pumpkin that tastes like beer!!” 
  • Cartoon 9: A view of the earths north pole from space. Caption reads: “Take the Ice Cap Melting Challenge” “Challenge everybody” “For ALL of uS” This is in reference to the ALS Ice Bucket challenge. 
  • Cartoon 10: Tim Moffitt carries a piece of paper with “ALEC written legislation” on it and says “Hey, I got full permission to use this, and they didn’t even WANT any credit!”
• Folder 14: (dated) 2014
  • Cartoon 1: William Anderson takes cover against a brick wall with his gun drawn. He calls into his radio “This is Anderson, requesting BACKUP! I need BACKUP NOW!! …. Backup……?”
  • Cartoon 2: Two men wash a swastika off a wall. Caption above reads “The two newest members of the city’s anti-graffiti squad”.
  • Cartoon 3: A man stands in front of God in heaven saying “But if I get into my room and close the door to pray, no-one will know how pious I am!” God responds: “I will.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Obama stands beside Malala Yousafzai, both are wearing their Nobel prizes and looking at each other. Obama says “Hey, they GAVE it to me; I didn’t ASK for it.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two Asheville police officers stand and watch a turtle. One of the officers is pointing a radar gun at the turtle, with the turtles speed being shown as “77”. The other officer comments “…whoa… that can’t be right…” 
  • Cartoon 6: Outline of North Carolina. In the center is “Amendment Done”, and the = symbol. This is probably a reference to Amendment one being overturned, legalizing gay marriage in North Carolina. 
  • Cartoon 7: A man stands in a room of mismatched and strange furniture, like a rug that says “I ❤ 2 P” The man thinks to himself “perfect.” Caption reads “Inferior decorator”
  • Cartoon 8: The Equality symbol and a similar design but with 1 bar. Caption in between them reads “We WILL gather together to join these two people…” 
  • Cartoon 9: A mother, father and child sit in their car which they appear to be living in. The woman is reading a paper and says “It says here that a lot of these high-end developments that failed are being bought up and reinvigorated.” The man comments “Maybe they’ll let us park overnight behind the gatehouse.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A tree looks at a tablet with a tree that has lost all of its leaves and thinks to itself “Oh yeah…”. Caption: “Tree porn”.
• Folder 15: (dated) 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: A man stands behind a curtain with some electrical equipment visible near him. A sign in left and in front of the curtain says “The wizard of Ozville”, a reference to The Wizard of Oz. A plaque to the right has the name “Gary Jackson” written on it. The man behind the curtain, meant to represent Former City manager Gary Jackson, says “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man in tall boots walks knee deep through a field of manure. A sign in the field says “Welcome to Raleigh”. The man is wearing a hat that says “Ager” and saying “I’m a farmer. I’ve been slogging through this stuff for years!” The man is meant to represent John Ager, a house representative from Buncombe county. 
  • Cartoon 3: Two police officers stand behind a table looking at a man, with his back turned to the viewpoint. One of the officers says “I’m sorry, councilman, but we’re going to have to administer a sobriety test.” The councilman responds: “But I’m not driving!” to which the second officer responds “No Sir, but you ARE about to make a public statement. 
  • Cartoon 4: Caption: “November 5th”. Underneath one man picks up signs that say “Vote for me 2014”. Beside him a man plants a sign that says “Vote for me 2018”.
  • Cartoon 5: An interstate direction sign reads “Soldtothe Highestbid.com Asheville ↓” 
  • Cartoon 6: A jack-o-lantern, with turkey legs, and a Santa beard and hat sits on a turkey serving plate. Caption reads: “Happy Thanksoweenmas! From your friends at RETAILRUNSTHEMALLTOGETHER.COM” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man approaches the open trunk of a car, where a bag sits, pointing a camera. Caption above reads: “A rare sighting of the Re-usable bag in its natural habitat.” The man holding the camera says “~ssshhhh~ Dont spook it…” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man and woman watch TV together. Voices on the TV say: “You ain’t seen nothing yet”, “taking care of business” and “Let it ride”. The man says “This final week political ad blitz is just too much!” to which the woman responds “Moffitt-Turner overdrive” This is probably in reference to campaign ads exchanged between Tim Moffitt and Brian Turner. 
  • Cartoon 9: A bare foot is covered in tar, with “NCAA violations” spelled out in the tar. Caption reads: “Tarred heel”
• Folder 16: (dated) 2014 
  • Cartoon 1: Kim Jong-Un plays with two cross braces attached to the words “Sony”. Caption reads: “Puppet Regime”. This is probably in reference to the 2014 release of “The Interview” and subsequent North Korean cyber attacks.
  • Cartoon 2: Pat McCrory and another man stand around a tree that is dropping money. The trunk of the tree has “Tree.com” written on it. The other man says: “Wow, Pat! It really DOES grow on trees!” McCrory responds: Yes, Mark, from a tiny acorn a mighty payout grows!” 
  • Cartoon 3: Seven people stand around a woman. Most are asking the woman different questions: ”Let me ask you a question…”, “All I need is some spare change so I can get something to eat.” “I ain’t gonna lie. I need a drink.” “My car broke down in Knoxville, and we walked here.” and “I need money for a new tattoo!!”. The caption beneath reads: “I don’t think this is the kind of increased density city council envisioned…”
  • Cartoon 4: A priest sits on a bus and says to the bus driver: “Now, thanks to your Sunday service, I don’t have to drive to mine!” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man lies face down in a pool of blood(?) beside a sign that says “Love”.
  • Cartoon 6: A homeless man and his dog sit at a makeshift camp site, featuring a rudimentary tent, and small fire. Caption above says: “Currently-out-of-the Workforce housing”
  • Cartoon 7: The front of “Pranzare fine”  “-Fine dining-”. An a-frame sign in front says “Grand opening Dec. 2014” and a smaller sign behind it says “Humiliating closing Feb. 2015” 
  • Cartoon 8: A line of people stand underneath a banner which reads “BIG Black Friday sale! Starts Thursday!!!”. Two people in line sit at a table, eating a turkey, with lit candles. 
• Folder 17: (undated) 2014
  • Cartoon 1: A woman, wearing a crown and other ornate royal clothing dances and holds up a wine glass.

Box 15:

• Folder 1: (dated) 2015 
  • Cartoon 1: Caption: “A.P.D making strides to engage minorities”  A police officer stands behind an Asheville Police department podium, announcing: “Today we are pleased to announce the hiring of the first gay Hispanic woman police chief in North Carolina.” People from off frame ask “Will her wife get a job working for the city?” and “Does SHE know where Dianty is?” 
  • Cartoon 2: A boy looks up from a book and out the window of his house outside where 3 other children are playing in the snow; Building a snowman, throwing snowballs and sledding. Caption reads “What do homeschoolers do on snow days?” “Wish they were in public school…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A bird stands on a windowsill and shouts, while pointing at an empty bird feeder that another bird is standing on: HEY!!! Can we get a little SERVICE, here?!
  • Cartoon 4: Caption: ”Public-private partnership”. Two people stand on a cliff, a sign behind them tells you that it’s “Investors leap”. The two people talk back and forth P1: “No, No, you first!” P2: ”Heavens no! It’s only fair for you to go first!” P1: “But I insist!” P2: “Please, I couldn’t live with myself” 
  • Cartoon 5: Caption: “Combination of church and state” Below is a door labeled “N.C. Registrars of deeds”. Signs taped to the door read “If you are any thing other than a straight man-woman couple, FERGIT IT! You ain’t getting married here!” “amen”   
  • Cartoon 6: Thomas Wolfe stands in front of a wooden fence blocking a construction area. A sign in front of the fence announces: “Future site of Old Kentucky Hotel” built by “Pred Atory LLC, Developer” The fence has been Graffittied with “Tourism Uber Alles”. Caption: “You can’t go home again” 
  • Cartoon 7: A couple eats at a cafe table beside a busy street as cars fly by. The server for the cafe is wearing a football helmet and a nearby sign says “Cafe, at least we HAVE a sidewalk!” Caption reads: “Sidewalk dining in Asheville”
  • Cartoon 8: A door marked “Closed session” is pried open by a crowbar labeled “F.O.I.A”. 
  • Cartoon 9: A couple stands at a restaurant while the front of house asks them “How many in your party? Inside, or on the patio? Smoking, or non-smoking? Religiously prejudiced or open minded?” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two protestors hold up signs that say “Boycott”. Someone asks them “What, or who, are you boycotting?” To which one protestor responds “Franklin Graham”. The other protestor says: “we’re moving all of our faith assets to another church.” “and bank.” 
• Folder 2: (dated) 2015 
  • Cartoon 1: A disembodied hand holds a pencil that says “Cartoonists” and writes the words “You can’t kill us all”. This is probably a reference to the 2015 Charlie Hebdo shooting, caused by a caricature of the prophet Muhammad. 
  • Cartoon 2: A man leans against a kitchen counter while looking at his phone. In front of him are two dogs, one of which says “Don’t you just hate to see them chained like that?” 
  • Cartoon 3: Caption: “A.D.A ponders the question: “How do we bring locals back to downtown?”” A family of 4 stands in the middle of the frame. The man of the family says: “Well, for starters, we don’t need a hotel.” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man sits on a lifeguard tower beside a boat with a sign on it that reads: “R.A.F.T River arts flood trolley” and “Flood insurance here” To the mans other side is an ornate gate that says “River Arts District” Caption: “Entrepreneur”. The man is saying: “see a need, fill a need…” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man points a firehose into an empty pool, The stream of water spells out “Promises”. On the opposite side of the pool, two swimmers prepare to jump. 
  • Cartoon 6: Two men stand on a raised wooden platform, wearing harnesses and helmets. A flag hanging from the platform says “Urban zipline adventures”. One of the men is hooked into the zipline, while the other pats him on the back and says: “No, no it’s perfectly safe! And before you know it, you’ll be on the other side of Merrimon! 
  • Cartoon 7: A man stands at an “Asheville Chamber of Commerce” podium and speaks to a crowd saying: “Friends, when you live in a beautiful place like this, growth and change are inevitable! What can you do?!” A Poster beside the podium says “Today luncheon/lecture “Whither Asheville?”. Someone from the crowd responds to the man: “Stop telling people about it.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A portrait of Thom Tillis. Caption beside it reads: “This senator does not require his employers to wash their hands of him, however much it is their desire to do so. North Carolina board of WHATDIDHESAY?!?
  • Cartoon 9: Caption: “The U.S Cellular center bans all wild & exotic animals…” A man with long hair and a beard and wearing a tie dye shirt with no shoes holds up his hands and says: “NOT COOL, MAN!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A stop sign, and homemade sign stand beside each other while someone with a hammer walks off frame. The homemade sign says: “Running over pedestrians and school children!” Meant to be read with the “Stop” as the first word.
• Folder 3: (dated) 2015 
  • Cartoon 1: A family of 4 stands on a cracked sidewalk near a sign. One of the people says “I LOVE Asheville’s historical markers! What does that one say, Daddy?” The man reads from the sign: “This crumbling and dangerous sidewalk is the result of money, collected from tourists who stay in hotels, being used to bring more tourists to more hotels, instead of repairing damage done by all the tourists in all of the hotels.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A couple walks past a busker on a sidewalk. The busker is wearing a balloon hat and playing an electric xylophone, beside him a dog sleeps wearing headphones. The busker calls out to the couple: “Hey, busking is NOT a crime!” one of the couple thinks to themselves: “Some of it is…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A fat man, missing many of his teeth and wearing a confederate flag hat holds a sign that says: “wite saprimacee” Caption: Poor choice for spokesperson” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two men stand side by side covered in paint, each with their name written on their shirt. The first man, whose shirt has “Gordon” says: “Going from a mostly blue city to a mostly red county…” and the second man whose shirt has “Cecil” probably meant to be Cecil Bothwell, continues: “We hope you like the new color we’ve picked out!” The buckets of paint they hold are labeled “Deep Purple”.
  • Cartoon 5: A trapeze artist stands on a bar above five people and holds a ring and two juggling clubs with a puzzled look on his face. All of the people underneath the artist are on their phones and not looking at him. 
  • Cartoon 6: A man holding a guitar and with a harmonica holder looks shocked as several people around him look at their phones. 
  • Cartoon 7: Caption: “In a parallel universe”. Below two boys walk, one wears a shirt that says “nerd power” and the other says “With my high G.P.A., ive gotten offers from duke, stanford, M.I.T. … I think im going to go into teaching…” Two girls look at the boys and remark: “ooh, aren’t they dreamy?!” “Yeah, but i hear they beat up on the football players.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Caption: “North Carolina pay scales” Below are several different dollars. The first dollar is complete and labeled “Men”. The second is missing 25% and is labeled “Women” The third is missing about 75% and is labeled “Teachers”. Finally there’s a pile of change labeled “women teachers” 
  • Cartoon 9: Caption: “re:Solutions”. Uncle Sam looks disheveled and has his hat off saying: “If you’ve got any, I’d love to hear ‘em” 
• Folder 4: 2015
  • Cartoon 1: An elephant looks at its foot and sees the head of Donald Trump and thinks to itself “Great…” 
  • Cartoon 2: A tightrope artist walks on a rope surrounded by people on their phones. Comic is a copy of Folder 3 cartoon 6. 
  • Cartoon 3: A man stands beside a parking garage and holds his crotch like he needs to pee. The sign behind the man for the garage says: “Beer City parking FULL” 
  • Cartoon 4: Two men look at a flat horizon with clouds in the sky. One man gestures forward and says “Yessir, these are the oldest mountains in the world.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Caption: “A sure thing…” A man in a trench coat and fedora speaks into a phone saying “Rocky? It’s Lou. Yeah. City Council. Put it all on a moneyed, middle-aged white guy from North Asheville.” 
  • Cartoon 6: A dog looks at a computer screen. On screen is a picture of a dog’s backside, with “You have a friend request from REX” written above it. 
  • Cartoon 7: Two people stand near a carnival attraction which is labeled “The amazing diving elephants”. The Carnival proprietor calls out “Step right up, friends, and see which candidate is the first to plunge from the HEIGHTS OF IMPROBABILITY into this shallow pool of OLD NEWS!!” One of the people watching asks “Is it streaming?” the proprietor replies “Yessir 24/7.” An arrow points to the other person watching which says “No words” 
  • Cartoon 8: Left side of the comic, a hand is held in a fist, Caption above: “Power to the people”. Right side, an electrical tower is covered in protest signs and banners, reading things like: “No!” “Progress?!” “No Herbicides!” “Use existing rights-of-way!!” and “Not on MY property!!” Caption: “people to the power” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man jumps on a scale opposite a giant weight which is labeled “ “Liberal” city council”. The man shouts “BALANCE!! BALANCE!!!” and the weight across from him says “If that breaks you are going to land on your MUM.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Caption: “Instead of banning chains, Asheville should BECOME one!! Set an Asheville™ [Franchises now available!]  down ina  city, and you get a zone of entrepreneurs, locally made products, and unique features unlike anywhere else!” Underneath are two people, one asks “What about low wages, unaffordable housing…” the other person continues “and a deteriorating infrastructure?” another man responds to them “well, it WOULD be a chain…”
• Folder 5: 2015 
  • Cartoon 1: Caption: “Forrest Trump”. Below, Donald Trump sits on a bench holding a box of chocolates, and dressed like Tom Hanks in the Forrest Gump Bench scenes. He says: “Like mama always says- stupid is as stupid does.”. Someone off-frame calls “Don’t run, Forrest, Don’t run!!!”  
  • Cartoon 2: Donald Trump is consumed by a vortex of hair from his toupee. 
  • Cartoon 3: Bill Cosby looks at a giant pill on a table, labeled “justice”. A voice off frame calls “Time for YOUR pill, Bill.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Left side: A man is held up at knifepoint and hands over his wallet, Captioned: “crime”. Right side: A man drops money into a hat held by a man in a striped vest, with juggling clubs in his other hand. Captioned: “Not a crime”
  • Cartoon 5:  Left side: A man is held up at knifepoint and hands over some money, Captioned: “crime”. Right side: A man drops money into a hat held by a man with a guitar. Captioned: “Not a crime”
  • Cartoon 6: A man shouts at his phone while driving, saying: “The traffic in Asheville is getting worse!! Find me a less crowded alternate route.” His phone replies: “0 search results. I’m sorry, Dave. Would you like some soothing music?” 
  • Cartoon 7: A house with a banner on the roof that reads: “OPENING SOON! TEACHER HOUSING!!”. A sign in the front yard reads “Sorry, no math teachers ☹”. A man looking at the sign asks: “Why is that?”, to which another man responds: “New teacher salaries and “workforce” housing costs don’t add up.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Caption: “Some of the lists Asheville didn’t do quite as well on…” Below is a notepad with 4 categories: “1. Retention of police chiefs over the last 5 years” “2. Amount of affordable housing that is actually livable” “3. Mixing of races at business or social functions” “4. Wage ratio to living expenses” 
  • Cartoon 9: A bird sits on a birdhouse and talks to a bird on a branch, underneath these two birds, another bird enters the birdhouse, its perch has a sign hanging from it that reads “STR”. The top bird is saying to the other bird: “Hey, it’s the only way I can afford to live here!” 
  • Cartoon 10: A flaming Bernie Sanders, Caption: It’s better to bern out than to fade away”
• Folder 6: 
  • Cartoon 1: A cake decorated with “Asheville” on one side and candles on top that spell out “Top 10” and candles styled after hotels, a tourist, and a can of beer. The side of the cake is falling away to reveal bricks, and exposed pipes. A man sits beside the cake with a sign that says “Can’t afford to live”. Caption: “Crumbling…”
  • Cartoon 2: A man wearing a button that says “I’m back, baby!” Walks in the direction of City council, noted by a sign. The man says “Don’t look so surprised…” “once you’ve had a taste…” 
  • Cartoon 3: A view of a car’s bumper with bumper stickers that read “FUND LOCAL” and “AVL”. The Cars license plate is in the middle and reads “Tourist$” 
  • Cartoon 4: A platform filled with people. A voice off frame left asks: “What are we looking at here – Angels?” a voice off frame right replies: “City council candidates” 
  • Cartoon 5: A medieval minstrel sits on a rock and grips his leg, with a lute lying in front of him. Caption: “Minstrel cramps”
  • Cartoon 6: A man walks by a construction zone where tubes are being lifted into a structure. Signs on the fence read: “Fall 2015 workforce housing “If you were in a 5’x14’ tube you’d be home by now” “ and “Prices starting at $1300/month for a one-tube apartment” 
  • Cartoon 7: The shadow of 9 crosses reveal the words “Charleston 9”. Caption: “You don’t become numb to it. It doesn’t get better- it gets worse. Each time.”  This is in reference to the January 2015 Charleston shooting at Mother Emanuel AME church in Charleston SC. 
  • Cartoon 8: A roadside billboard announces: “Coming soon”  “DISAPPEARING ACRES” “An over priced commuter community in the heart of what used to be productive farmland”. A sign in front of the billboard directs “Construction vehicles →”
  • Cartoon 9: A woman stands with a cinderblock for a head. Beside her a floating fairy godmother says “OOPS! Sorry, Cinderella.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Caption: “At the new cat cafe”. A man orders at a cafe counter where several cats sit. The man says: “Excuse me, I’d like to order… hello?… …Hey, I’m talking to you!…”
• Folder 7 (dated) 2015
  • Cartoon 1: A man talks on his phone at the checkout line at a grocery store. The cashier thinks to himself: “I wish there was a feature called “cashier waiting”.” 
  • Cartoon 2: A side of a trash truck with “WASTE AMATEUR” written on it as well as a medal with “#-1”. Underneath is “Buncombe’s Choice(?)” This is in reference to local trash company WastePro. 
  • Cartoon 3: A father and son look at a burning A.M.E church which explosions erupt from. The son asks: “Those aren’t fireworks, are they, daddy?” and his father replies “No, son, that’s our church.” Caption: “Gave proof, through the night, that the hate was still there…” This is a reference to the 2015 Charleston shooting. 
  • Cartoon 4: Caption: “While it’s still hot…” A spoon lifts 3 letters from a bowl of alphabet soup, with the letters in the spoon spelling out “ERA” and letters in soup spelling out “LGBQT” This is probably in support of the Equal rights amendment and it being ratified in North Carolina. 
  • Cartoon 5: Caption: “Next up…”. A flag flies from a flagpole with “ERA” written on it. Also in reference to the Equal Rights amendment. 
  • Cartoon 6: The entrance to the “N.C. Register of deeds state fair”. At the ticket booth is a sign that says: “Religious beliefs must be THIS deep to refuse to sanction a LEGAL same sex marriage:” Underneath is a picture of a button on a mans lapel which reads “Because i say they are” 
  • Cartoon 7: The silhouette of the characters from the Wizard Of Oz dance under a rainbow. Caption beneath: “♪ Everywhere, over the rainbow𝅗𝅥𝅘𝅥𝅯” 
  • Cartoon 8: The bottom of the Vance Monument, but with Graffiti on it that reads: “#graffiti makes no difference” 
  • Cartoon 9: A monkey pulls off and throws away its thumb, saying: “Disposable thumbs.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Caption: “Advocates for a  park across from the basilica say resident seniors need a close place for rest and contemplation…” Underneath 4 people sit on a bench. Beside them an old couple shouts at them: “We’re contemplating how to stop the rest of you from taking over this park!”
• Folder 8: (dated) 2015 
  • Cartoon 1: On the left side 3 people, dressed like hippies hold a sign that says “We want a park”. On the right a family of 3 holds a sign that says “We want TO park!” 
  • Cartoon 2: A baby in a stroller with a pacifier and a man smoking a vape look at each other. 
  • Cartoon 3: A close view of an Asheville Police officers shirt with a bodycam in the middle. The officer’s name tag says “SGT. Final Cut”. The officer holds his hands in a frame with his thumbs together while saying: “What we really want to do is direct.” 
  • Cartoon 4: Left: A view of a 4 lane road captioned “highway”. Middle: A view of a smaller country road captioned “byway” Right: A view of a path with two groups of people arguing, Captioned: “Greenway”. The people are saying two each other “No Way!” and “way!”
  • Cartoon 5: Caption: “The quickest way to get  a teenager to do what you don’t want them to do…” “Tell them they can’t.” In the middle, two teenagers read The Kite Runner. 
  • Cartoon 6: 5 people stand around a television. Person 1: What is this, the NBA Playoffs?” P2: “The NDA playoffs.” P3: “ The non-disclosure agreement playoffs.” P4: “commissioners vs. media.” P5: “I got the Media in 6.”
  • Cartoon 7: A man stands behind a “Duke Energy – Progress” podium beside a sign that says: “Coal ash~ where to store it?”. The man is saying: “parents, teachers, and students of Isaac Dickson elementary, we have heard your concerns about electromagnetic radiation and have decided to re-purpose our plans for that property.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two men, one black and one white, look at a large cloud which is shooting lightning. The cloud has the words “Racial tension” on it. The white man says: “That is one THREATENING storm!!! We have to DO something!” The black man responds: “Dude, so do we.” 
  • Cartoon 9: 4 people, all with nose rings face forwards. Each one has horns implied to be on their heads, and there are “mooo’s” in the background. Caption: “A herd of hipsters”
  • Cartoon 10: A view of a monopoly board. The corner reads: “If you’re not putting up a hotel do not pass GO”. Boxes beside it all have famous Asheville roads. Top caption: “Asheopoly™” 
• Folder 9: (dated) 2015
  • Cartoon 1: Two women stand in front of a statue of the Rev. Billy Graham. A sign next to the statue says “U.S. CAPITOL STATUARY HALL”. One of the women says: “Don’t know what all of the fuss was about. I can’t think of a place more needing to be saved.” 
  • Cartoon 2: Caption reads: “Once again, Vernon gets up on the wrong side of the bed” A messy bed with an arm and foot protruding from underneath. From under the bed someone says “Dammit, I had this!!” 
  • Cartoon 3: An old man sits in front of a computer screen and shakes his fist saying: “Hey, you damn kids! Get off my internet!!”
  • Cartoon 4: A monkey sits in a recliner in front of a tv. Top caption: “Less than curious George”. George turns towards the viewer and shrugs while saying “I Just don’t give a #^%*! Anymore.”
  • Cartoon 5: Two teenagers are talking in a high school hall. One of the teens has his pants sagging showing part of his underwear; He says to the other teen “The principal said I can’t wear my pants like this anymore. The girls might not be able to control their Feelings” Behind them 3 teenage girls laugh and think to themselves: “Gross!” “HAH-HAH” and “Fool.” 
  • Cartoon 6: Two street performers stand in front of a podium with a sign next to it that says “Sign up here for Busker Idol Asheville”. The man behind the podium says “Step on up, son.” while the buskers say “Seriously?! I have to AUDITION?!” and “Wow, man. Freaking death panel…” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man opens a door with a bucket propped on top of the door. Behind the door a brain with arms and legs laughs “Heh heh”. Caption: “Sometimes my brain likes to play tricks on me” 
  • Cartoon 8: Jonathan Wainscott’s head appears among clouds. A disembodied voice asks “Two part question, Mr Wainscott. A) What made you decide to run for City Council, and B) What, In your opinion, would you bring to City Council?”  Wainscott answers: “A) I smoke pot, and B) see A).”
  • Cartoon 9: Pat McCrory sits with smoke coming from his mouth. Caption reads: “Duke/Progress, following the lead of a former top employee, decides to make the switch to natural gas.” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two men stand talking. One of the men has a small house for a head, saying: “It’s my new tiny house.” to which the other man responds “Dude.”
• Folder 10: (dated) 2015
  • Cartoon 1: A beer sits next to a coaster with a picture of a bicycle that reads “New Owner brewing”. Off frame a voice asks “Whaddya think?” To which another voice responds “I don’t know… It’s not as good as I expected it to be” This is meant to be a play on New Belgium Brewery, which has an Asheville Location and was looking to sell in 2015, though it ultimately would not be sold until 2019
  • Cartoon 2: An open exit door stands among clouds, with a sandaled foot passing through it. Top caption: “How I picture god these days…”. God thinks from behind the door “Morons…”.
  • Cartoon 3: Donald Trump stands on top of 6 blocks with different words on them: “Ignorance” “Racism” “Misogyny” “Homophobia” “Demagoguery” “Fear mongering” Top caption: “Trump Tower” this is in reference to Former President Trump’s presidential campaign in 2015 and 2016
  • Cartoon 4: A waiter clears a table while holding four forks. A voice off frame asks “May the forks be with you? To which the waiter responds “Yeah, I’m strong with the forks.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A hand draws a cartoon which says “Un affordable housing- one more hotel- cesspool of sin- not another top 10 list!- carl- cecil- esther- tim-” Top caption says “They practically draw themselves…” these are all topics commonly covered by David Cohen in his cartoon, with this comic likely meant to be self-referential. 
  • Cartoon 6: A man stands next to a car with a hose running from the gas tank to a gas can. The car is labeled “N.C. Metropolitan generators” and the can is labeled “sales tax revenue”. The man whistles while thinking: “It’s only fair…”
  • Cartoon 7: A computer screen displays the words “Asheville Police Department” with a box underneath that says “Are you sure you want to restart?” “cancel” “restart”. A hand from off screen moves towards the keyboard and says “yes.”
  • Cartoon 8: A person with headphones in their ears and one in their nose faces towards the viewer, Caption: “Tripod” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two fish talk to each other while a turtle floats nearby. One of the fish says: “With all of this development and gentrification in the River Arts District, I hope we don’t get squeezed out!” The second fish responds: “Don’t worry. It’s not like we’re artists.”  
  • Cartoon 10: A teenager walks down the sidewalk while talking on the phone saying: “My folks don’t want that Power sub-station right next to my school” “They’re afraid that it might fry my brain.”
• Folder 11: (dated) 2015 
  • Cartoon 1: Jesus stands between two mimes, No caption
  • Cartoon 2: A man and woman lie in bed naked on top of one another, the woman is snoring. Caption reads: “Banal sex” 
  • Cartoon 3: Top caption: “Shruggers” A dog in a plaid shirt, jeans and loafers unfolds pictures and says: “I don’t think you’ve seen these yet.” Caption underneath reads “When a shrugger shows you a picture of his grandkids, he doesn’t “swipe” he “unfolds”.” small text at the bottom of the drawing says “With apologies to Gary Brookins and Jeff MacNelly” This comic is a reference to the comic strip “Pluggers”
  • Cartoon 4: Top caption: “New Patton Ave divider with stamped concrete and plantings” Drawing consist of a crosswalk with a flower pot that is inscribed “In loving memory” and a plaque that reads “~For want of a crosswalk~” 
  • Cartoon 5: A hand holds a phone that displays an app called “Parking not ™” with a picture of a parking lot filled with x’s. Off frame a voice asks: “What does that new parking app say?” To which another voice responds: “After it stopped laughing, it said “Good Luck”. 
  • Cartoon 6: A man walks by a car with a “Keep Asheville Weird” bumper sticker and comments “Swearing in new Councilmembers with a sing-along written by the Mayor’s dad~” “I think we’re good…” This is in reference to a Dec 2015 incident where Asheville Mayor Esther Mannheimers father led new council members in an Asheville themed sing along to the tune of “This land is your land” 
  • Cartoon 7: Birds eye view of an eight lane road, one or two words is on every lane reading: “We” “Don’t” “Need” “8 lanes” “thank” “You” “Anyway,” “City council” 
  • Cartoon 8: A bruised mother and child stand underneath the caption “Homeless by circumstance”. A Man with a backpack and dog and a sign that says “Anywhere, man” Stands underneath the caption “Homeless by choice” A third man stands in front of a realty sign looking at a pamphlet and exclaims “$400,000 for a one bedroom?!?!” Above him the caption reads “Homeless by price” 
  • Cartoon 9: Santa, covered in liquid and halfway stuck in a human pore. Caption reads: “Secrete Santa”   
  • Cartoon 10: Several bubbles float around, all labeled and some of them bursting. The burst bubbles are “Housing” “Manufacturing jobs” “Quality of life” and “wages”. The unburst bubbles are “Breweries” and “Tourism economy” Caption reads: “Not if, but when…”
• Folder 12:  (dated) 2015
  • Cartoon 1: A hole punch makes holes in a card labeled “Feelings” with several boxes on the card each featuring a different emotion. “Love”, “Surprize”, “ecstacy”, “Horror”, “Lust”, “Pity” “Loss” and “Joy” have all been punched. Top caption reads: “Validation” 
  • Cartoon 2: A bag labeled “Keith Jerky” “Aged & Smoke Cured”. The bag features a picture of Keith Richards on it.
  • Cartoon 3: A cardboard box labeled “BJ’s appliance outlet” sits open on its side. Top caption: “Starter home c.2015”
  • Cartoon 4: A little girl plays with dolls. On either side of the girl is a dollhouse, one meant to represent a two story house, while the other is a mobile home. The girl says “I don’t care how much nicer they are now; I still don’t want it next to my house!” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man and a woman sit at a table drinking coffee. The woman says: “I Think I’m more lactose ambivalent than anything.”
  • Cartoon 6: A highway sign that reads: “Welcome to Weaverville North Carolina – Official City of Asheville designated vaping area” 
  • Cartoon 7: A flower and bird talk to each other. The flower says “Are we early? The invitation said “Spring 2015” the bird responds “These are the mountains of WNC. We’re always too early.”
  • Cartoon 8: A woman takes a photo of herself with her phone (A selfie). Behind her an arm extends a pole with a note on the end that says “No one cares!” into the way of the phone. Top caption reads: “Selfie Stick” 
  • Cartoon 9: A crane (Bird) faces a crane (Construction equipment) and says “That’s odd. You’re building a nest for someone else?” Top Caption reads: “Asheville 2016 “Year of the crane” “ 
  • Cartoon 10: Franklin Graham and an elephant stand on a basketball court. Graham says to the elephant: “Oh, yeah?! Well I’m taking my god and I’m leaving!!!” while the elephant thinks “Crybaby…”
• Folder 13: (dated)  2015 
  • Cartoon 1: A monk holds up a hand in front of a dog that’s wagging its tail and says: “Namaste.”
  • Cartoon 2: Two heads stick out from a hole on a sidewalk with cars passing behind them. One of the people in the hole says “I wonder if repairing existing sidewalks is on the priority list.”
  • Cartoon 3: A man in a suit with a clipboard asks a woman “If there was one issue that the City Council election hinged on, what do you think that would be?” The woman responds, “That people think this election hinges on one issue.” Behind them is a construction fence with signs that say “Hard Hat area” “Future site of …something…”
  • Cartoon 4: Two children look at a man with a conjoined twin. One of the children comments: “That’s my uncle on my father’s side.” 
  • Cartoon 5: A man holds a sign that says “NIMB” behind a box truck labeled “Transplant Moving Co.” The man carrying a box from the truck asks “NIMB?” to which the man holding the sign responds “Not in my Birthplace” 
  • Cartoon 6: A jar of instant coffee sits open with a spoon next to it. Off page someone says: “Dear god, this #!@&* tastes TERRIBLE!!” Top Caption: “Instant Karma” 
  • Cartoon 7: An hourglass with three chambers, labeled “Asheville City Council” at the top. The first hourglass chamber is labeled “Primary” which is half full, the second “General election” which is only slightly full, and the third “Frying Pan and fire” which has a small fire and frying pan at the bottom, with sand at the top making a question mark. 
  • Cartoon 8: A cliff is crowded with small animals, with some falling off the cliff, possibly lemmings. Above the cliff are the words “Pumpkin spice” 
  • Cartoon 9: A man with a camera stands in front of a tree, the tree says to the man “That’ll be 10 dollars.”
  • Cartoon 10: A Piece of paper labeled “Slate of candidates for Asheville City Council” Lies flat with a peace sign made of flowers on top of it. Top caption: “Politics Bomb” Bottom: “Chill out #23” 
• Folder 14: (dated)  2015
  • Cartoon 1: A beetle with dreadlocks and humming. Top caption “Jah Humbug” this is a play on “Bah Humbug” using the Rastafarian name for god, “Jah”.
  • Cartoon 2: In a living room, a man with a beer, a dog sitting on the couch, and a cat licking itself all watch a tv, where the announcer says “When we come back, we’ll tell you the results of yesterday’s elections, but first here’s a look at the candidates and issues in next year’s election…”
  • Cartoon 3: A man lies in a field on his back staring at clouds. One of the clouds is in the outline of the man on the ground and directly above the man. 
  • Cartoon 4: A dining table is set with flowers, cups, salt and pepper and two plates. One of the plate is empty but the other has 3 pieces of bacon. The person sitting in front of the plate of bacon is wearing a “W.H.O” tag on their tie. From off frame a voice says “If you’re not going to eat that …” This is probably in reference to a 2015 report by the World health organization that processed meats cause cancer including bacon.
  • Cartoon 5: A child sits on the ground in a batman mask clutching their stomach, with their mouth hanging open. In front of the child is a Halloween candy bucket labeled: “Campaign promises” around the bucket are wrappers labeled with “Housing” “Minorities” “wages” “water” “Environment” and “Parks”. A voice from off frame says “I WARNED you about swallowing too much of that stuff!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A woman dressed as a superhero, an alien and a robot stand around a man sitting in a recliner. The alien says “DUDE, that is the BEST “Halloween is for kids -I don’t need a disguise to express my inner fantasies- lock the door and turn off the lights” costume EVER!!!” 
  • Cartoon 7: A close view of an Interstate marker for Interstate 26. Over the interstate marker is a sign that says “Possible, maybe, some time in the future.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A cup with a rotating cover, another view shows the lid of the cup has been encrusted with jewels and the words “Brittany”
  • Cartoon 9: The grim reaper holds an upside down scythe and points to someone and says “Turn that smile into something VILE!” Bottom caption: “The Grin Reaper” 
• Folder 15: (dated) 2015 
  • Cartoon 1: Two men walk by another man wearing a “Make America Great Again” hat with a circle on his chest that has an asterisk on it. One of the men walking by asks “What does that signify? Jew? Muslim?” To which the other man responds: “Trumphole.”
  • Cartoon 2: Top Caption: “Irritable bowel syndrome” Underneath a man clutches his stomach, while a voice comes from his stomach saying “You smack your lips when you eat!” “What is that toilet paper made of, SEA URCHINS?!” “And can you lay off the Kimchee Burritos, PLEASE!?!”
  • Cartoon 3: Half of the comic is labeled “I-26 connector” with a map underneath showing I-26 above and below an area labeled “Asheville” with the top road captioned “From somewhere up here” and the bottom road “To somewhere down here” The second half of the comic is labeled “I-26 disconnector” underneath a black family stands in front of a cloud of smoke and says “There goes the neighborhood.” “…Again…”
  • Cartoon 4: Three people stand around a giant pile of chains. One woman reads from a brochure “‘Local shops add quirky flavor and continuity to Asheville’s brand of uniqueness.’ Okay… so where are they?” a man on the opposite side of the pile says “I think they are buried under this pile of chains.” Beside him a child takes a photo while saying “whoa…”  
  • Cartoon 5: A to-go coffee cup labeled “Asheville N.C.” Off frame a voice asks: “Ok, what SHOULD it say?” to which another voice responds “Have a happy hotel experience, and a merry second home somewhere else!” 
  • Cartoon 6: A Starbucks coffee cup sits with steam rising from it. From off frame several voices converse, saying “It doesn’t matter what’s on the outside- what matters is on the inside!” “Please pass the Jesus sugar.” “Put the mug back in coffee mug!” “Preach it!” “Amen.”
  • Cartoon 7: A woman walks beside a man in a suit of armor carrying a flag with a snake on it that says “Don’t drive on me” The woman asks “Renaissance fair? Society for creative anachronism event?” The man in armor responds: “Asheville pedestrian.” 
  • Cartoon 8: A couple floats in a boat into a tunnel, Captioned “Tunnel of love” The other half of the comic is a stick figure standing in front of a massive canyon. Captioned: “Canyon of hate” 
  • Cartoon 9: Two men talk at a bar. One of the men ponders “I wonder how many actual ‘natives’ voted for the ‘native’ candidates.” The second man responds: “I wonder how many actual ‘natives’ are left in Asheville.” 
  • Cartoon 10: A guitar pedal labeled “The betterizer”

Box 16:

• Folder 1: (dated) 2015 
  • Cartoon 1: A man smashes a street performer’s Ukulele. In front of the street performer is a bucket labeled “Help me get lessons”. Behind him is a dog thinking “…thank you…” Top Caption: Uke-anasia” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man and a woman sit on a park bench. The woman says “SO glad that Summer is almost over! Maybe we’ll get a break from the crowds, the bad drivers, and the lousy tippers.” a tree beside them says “Buckle up, compadre. It’s about to get real…” 
  • Cartoon 3: Top caption “In the 70s, Asheville was known as “Tree City.” Now we are “Beer City.” What does the future hold?” below four people ponder the question. A hipster with a guitar says “Hotel City?” A black woman in a dress says “Unaffordable city?” A white yoga woman says “New police chief city?” An old farmer says “Now that the tourist economy has collapsed can we go back to the way it was city?” 
  • Cartoon 4: A man asks another man, “So tell me, Walter… How did you get the city off your back about renting out rooms in your house?” The second half of the comic shows the front of the house which has a sign that says “Hotel Walter NO vacancy” 
  • Cartoon 5: A Running track with several hurdles on it, with each hurdle labeled with a major winter holiday. The person running the track has already passed the “Halloween” and “Thanksgiving” Hurdles and is running towards the “Kwanzaa” “Chanukah” and “Christmas” hurdles. At the end of the track is a checkered banner with “New Years Eve” 
  • Cartoon 6: A depiction of the NCDOT symbol but the DOT symbol is breaking the state into three pieces. Captioned: “NCDOT” “Nothing Can Derail Our Thinking 
  • Cartoon 7: Two people carry Christmas presents while around them 5 speakers play music. One of the people comments “I’d be o.k. With a war on Christmas MUSIC…” This is in reference to a 2015 controversy surrounding Starbucks coffee cup, and a supposed “war on Christmas” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man in a suit labeled “PARC” holds a ventriloquist dummy likely meant to resemble Cecil Bothwell. The dummy says “The park isn’t just for the rich people who live in the condos next door; it’s also for the poor people across the street in the government subsidized housing!” 
  • Cartoon 9: Caption: “I think these would sell…” The product is a headband that displays a thought bubble that says “WTF?!” underneath a man is shown wearing one. 
  • Cartoon 10: A mother stands beside a shopping cart full of food, with her two children on and in the cart. The mother says “We’re going to call this ‘what am I forgetting Wednesday’.” to which her daughter replies “Giving thanks, Mommy!”
• Folder 2: (dated) 2015
  • Cartoon 1: A spilled coffee cup, in the liquid is “#wakinglife” This is in reference to the 2015 Waking Life coffee shop scandal, where two local coffee shop owners (Waking Life) were discovered to have posted Misogynist content online and were forced to close their shop in the wake of the scandal.  
  • Cartoon 2: The Volkswagen logo, but the “V” has been replaced with an “O” This is likely in reference to the 2015 VW emissions scandal, but the punchline is unclear.
  • Cartoon 3: A crying man in a suit smoking a cigarette. Top caption: “Orange is the New Blue…”
  • Cartoon 4: Cecil Bothwell pushes a lawnmower in front of a sign that says “St. Lawrence Green” On the other side of the frame is a sign for “Haywood St. Condos” A voice from off frame says: “Cecil, you missed a spot, and don’t forget to water the flowers and empty all the trash receptacles.” 
  • Cartoon 5: Two men sit at an “ART” bus stop. One of the men sits with his head on his fist. He is captioned “Upset that he missed the last bus” The second man reclines with a shocked expression, he is captioned: “Relieved that the last bus missed him”
  • Cartoon 6: A group of people stand in front of a large wall, behind it the US capitol building is visible. The wall has “Equal rights amendment ratification deadline” spelled out in bricks on it. The group of people all shout “Tear down this wall!” and hold signs saying “remove ERA deadline” and “ERA now.”
  • Cartoon 7: Two people sit at a table drinking coffee, one man reads a newspaper with the front page saying “protests, lynch mob mentality for #waking life” the man remarks “Hey, they apologized, didn’t they?” The woman sitting across from him responds: “‘At Least we didn’t shoot a lion’ isn’t much of an apology.” 
  • Cartoon 8: Two people stand downtown holding binoculars, One of them comments “Are the swifts a little late this year?” To which the other person responds: “They’ve been fighting for air space with the cranes.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A homeless man walks on a small patch of grass past a sign that says “St. Lawrence Green.”  behind him 4 different people lean out of their window to shout “HEY, YOU!! GET OFF OUR YARD!” 
  • Cartoon 10: Two men drive in a car with cans and a “Soon to be married!” sign attached, past a highway sign that says: “Welcome to McDowell County, N.C.* — *except for you guys.”
• Folder 3: (dated)  2015
  • Cartoon 1: A drive through menu floats in space next to a planet with a sign for “Pluto’s” on it. Next to the menu is a spaceship, and above it a sign for “Flyby lane” a voice from the menu says “Welcome to Plutos! Would you like to planet-size your order?” This is likely in reference to Pluto’s reclassification as a dwarf planet
  • Cartoon 2: Two people in medical scrubs stand outside a box with a large gorilla inside. The Gorilla is labeled “Mission”. One of the people says “Either he’s gotten bigger or the room has gotten smaller.” Top caption: “500lb. Gorilla”
  • Cartoon 3: A cop and a street performer stand beside each other signing on the street. The performer sings: “Won’t you buy my CD? Just trying to make a living…” The cop continues “No problem if it’s free, but selling is not giving…” on the ground is a tip bowl, a box of CD’s for sale, and a jar labeled “Law”.  A Bystander drops some money into the “Law” jar and thinks “Catchy tune..” 
  • Cartoon 4: A plane flies through the air with a dog and a pilot. The plane is labeled “PeroMexico”  
• Folder 4: (undated)  2015
  • Cartoon 1: A car drives into a tunnel, from inside the car someone remarks “that’s weird. All of a sudden my wrist hurts.” Caption “Carpool Tunnel Syndrome” 
  • Cartoon 2: A man and woman hold hands. The woman says “We’re whatcha call your “Lame-sex couple.”
  • Cartoon 3: Drawing of a shape with a circle in one corner
  • Cartoon 4: Drawing of a shape with a circle in one corner, slightly different than first but same rough shape.
  • Cartoon 5: A Flaming circle with the letters “VJB” in the middle. 
  • Cartoon 6: Three people sit at a counter and look at their devices. Top caption: “Social Notworking” one woman looks at her phone and thinks “I could watch these funny cats all day!” the second man looks at a laptop and thinks “…memo to self/ Blog about needing to write memos to self…” The third man looks at a flip phone or pager and thinks “..w..a..w..o..m..f..t..” 
  • Cartoon 7: Two people sit beside one another, One holds a sign that says “Need work” the other holds a sign that says “Will hold sign” 
  • Cartoon 8: Six circles, The first circle has “music” with a drawing of a drum kit, the second has been crossed out with pencil, the third says “Blog” and features a drawing of a person writing with a quill, and their head is an ink well. The fourth says “links”, and has a drawing of either a chain or links of sausage. The fifth is “Illustrations” and has a board with “Serious” written on it. The sixth is “Cartoons” and has the same board as illustrations but colorful and with “Funny” written on it. 
  • Cartoon 9: A man sits in a chair in front of a mirror, captioned: “Reality Show” 
  • Cartoon 10: A small Asian child in a military uniform stands next to a high chair with a takeout box on it, and a toy dragon on the ground. 
  • Cartoon 11: Redrawing of the previous cartoon, the child’s expression has changed to crying.  
  • Cartoon 12: Two workers walk away from four solar panels. The sky is filled with dark clouds but on the horizon a sun labeled “N.C. Solar Industry” rises.
• Folder 5: (undated) 2015 
  • Cartoon 1: God sits in a chair surrounded by clouds and holds a remote. A cherub floats behind him. There is a speech bubble in front of god but it is blank. 
  • Cartoon 2: A dead possum(?) lies in the middle of the road, next to a crown, beyond it the road continues into the horizon. 
  • Cartoon 3: A red orb (the sun?) In front of blue and green mountain ranges. 
  • Cartoon 4: A cutout of a larger page, Shows a man at a desk in a striped suit talking on a phone and smoking a cigar. Behind him is a degree from “Yail University” his name plate on the desk says “Benny Goodman” (no relation)” “Corrective entertainment of America” and an arrow points to the left for “Mug shots” “overseas booking” and “rap sheets”.
  • Cartoon 5: An urn featuring the Chicago Bulls logo
  • Cartoon 6: Two desks sit on either side of a jail cell door. The left desk has two people at it, a man in a Hawaiian shirt and a woman in a police uniform. The front of the desk says “Saudades Tourneen” and has an arrow pointing right “To cells”. The other desk says “U.S. Agent Wicks” “Ted Kurland Associates” with two arrows pointing left labeled “Fingerprinting” and “overseas booking” 
  • Cartoon 7: A man and a cat sitting on a stool look at a computer screen, the man says “Do THAT!” 
  • Cartoon 8: A man and a woman walk along a street, the man says “I’m looking for a some-sex relationship.” 
  • Cartoon 9: A pig sits in a fast food booth holding a burger, a piglet sits across the booth from him. The pig says: “Believe me, son… there is no “ham” in these burgers.” A cow leans in from off frame and says “Just don’t get a McRib™.”