Dec 15, 2022 - Sale 2625

Sale 2625 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 375
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

JIM BORGMAN (1954-)

"Honest! I Pardoned Dr. Lecter Strictly on the Merits of His Case."

Political cartoon published in the Cincinnati Enquirer, 2001. 235x356 mm; 9 1/2x14 inches, image. Signed and dated in the upper left, inscribed and signed again on matte board; framed to 15x20 inches.

The cartoon references Bill Clinton's controversial pardoning of financial criminal Marc Rich by comparing him to the infamous serial killer Hannibal Lecter from the horror film "Silence of the Lambs." Jim Borgman is notable for his political cartoons and as the artist of the long-running syndicated comic strip "Zits."