Stilwell frogs -- The war winds down

Here's yet another in the continuing digital restoration project for "Stilwell," the comic strip I drew for the Cleveland State University student weekly, The Cauldron, from 1971 through 1973. This was quite a cheesy pun that I couldn't resist. (If you've checked my other posted works, you already know that there are few that I DO resist.) As for the context, of course, the shadow of the Vietnam War had followed us baby boomers through college. As 1973 began, President Nixon and Henry Kissinger were hard at work on ending U.S. involvement in the very unpopular war, and, in fact, on the very day this cartoon was published, Jan. 23, 1973, Kissinger and North Vietnam's Le Duc Tho signed a ceasefire agreement emanating from the Paris peace talks. Two months later, the last of the U.S. combat troops pulled out of the country. The military draft also ended that year. And, as we know, Nixon would pull out of public office the following year. So, despite my inanity, the subject matter was making front-page headlines at the time. For the record, to my knowledge, there was never an incident at Cleveland State's Stilwell Hall cafeteria involving a slice of pie being tossed up and stuck to the ceiling for months. There is some historic accuracy to it, however. During summers in my college years, my best friend from high school, John Gulczynski, his brother Bill and I worked at a steel drum manufacturing factory, where his uncle Dan worked in management. (Pays to have connections.) We used to eat lunch while sitting on stacks of steel sheets in the warehouse of the factory. One day, I was particularly unenamored with what I think was one too many balony sandwiches that I had packed for my lunch. With a mighty toss, I flung the half-eaten sandwich up into the rafters of the warehouse, where it stuck and remained, perhaps forever. Heck, it might even still be up there. F.C. Thornton is long gone, but last time I checked, the building was still standing in the Polish ghetto of southeast Cleveland.