While still a student at Ohio Wesleyan University, Arthur B. Poinier began to draw sports cartoons for the Columbus Dispatch before signing on as an editorial cartoonist for the Des Moines Register Tribune. A past president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists (AAEC), Poinier in 1951 joined the Detroit News, which in the course of his twenty-five years of service, published seventy-five hundred of his editorial cartoons. Poinier donated more than twenty-four hundred cartoons produced between 1952 and 1968 to the Special Collections Research Center.
Wonder How the History Books Will Picture Him?
Detroit News, 1960
Bobby Sox Idol / Visionary Liberal / Man of Action / Politician with the FDR Flair / Summit Negotiator / Hard-Headed Administrator / Statesman and World Leader
Composing note: to be used only if Kennedy wins
Straw Man
[1960]
Authoritarian Military Regimes in Emerging Nations / U.S. Arms Aid without Ensuring Governmental Reform
My Son...My Son
Detroit News, 1968
Newspaper Headline: Martin Luther King
Pathway to Camelot
Detroit News, 1968
(NOTE: To be used only in the event of Robt. Kennedy's death)