Fun Facts: Nicknamed “Old Hickory”, Jackson insisted the world was flat; had a pet parrot that had to be removed from his funeral because it kept cursing. READ MORE
Fun Facts: Liked to skinny dip in the Potomac on mornings during his presidency; first president to have his photograph taken; loved to garden READ MORE
Fun Facts: Had a bullet lodged in his shoulder from the Revolutionary War; Daughter Marcia was the first child of a president to be married in the White House; First president to ever travel on a steamship. READ MORE
Fun Facts: The smallest president ever at 5’4″ and 100 lbs; His wife Dolley saved the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington (and other treasures) from the White House when the British set it on fire in the War of 1812; The bakery snack line “Dolly Madison” was named for her in 1937, with the slogan “Cakes and pastries fine enough to serve at the White House.” READ MORE
Fun Facts: Designed his family home and called it “Monticello”, had a pet mockingbird named Dick who took food from Jefferson’s lips. READ MORE
Fun Facts: First president to live in the White House, his wife Abigail hung laundry out to dry in the unfinished East Room. READ MORE
So… about those “Classic Rock Sketches”… I’m going to have to put those on hold for a while. A long while. As well as most other content on Tom’s Mad Blog until after Memorial Day. Right now my workload has reached Red Alert, incoming tsunami, epic emergency proportions. In the next 6 weeks I have to complete the following: 32 more pages on the “Z-People” comic for Sitcomics 5 page TV parody for MAD Marlin Co. illustration Large and complex full page ad/promo for a big cartoonists event TBA soon Assorted other art jobs Finish planning, organizing and running The 69th Annual NCS Reuben Awards… READ MORE
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