A very rare serio-comic map satirising the World of George H.W. Bush

A caricature map updating Horsey's famous 'The World According to Ronald Reagan' for the new president, George Bush senior. Instead of Reagan as a sheriff, Bush is depicted as a grinning policeman in the style of the Keystone Cops, with a helmet with a star marked ''world cop'', one hand resting on his smoking pistol. Peering from behind his legs is a child-like Dan Quayle, swinging a gold club. Over Russia (or ''Gorbyland'), Mikhail Gorbachev has been reduced from a full figure to a roundel portrait, with a fragment of the crumbling Soviet Union striking him on the head. The other portraits are: Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney as a Mountie; British Prime Minister John Major as a 'bobby'; and Saddam Hussain in uniform, with a black eye and a sticking plaster on forehead. On the map, the landmarks in America include: 'Boeing' for Seattle, 'Aids' for San Francisco, 'Crips and Bloods' for Los Angeles and 'S & L' for the Savings and Loan crisis. Elsewhere: Britain is 'Fish and Chips' and Ireland 'IRA'; Europe is divided between 'Deutschmarks Uber Alles' and 'Ex-Reds'; Syria is 'Useful Terrorists'; Iraq is a smoking crater marked 'Scud Land'; Africa is divided between 'Crazy Arabs', Sane Arabs' and 'Mandela Land; China is marked 'Moldering Marxist Mandarins', with Tiananmen Square, commemorating the democracy demonstrations of two years earlier; Japan is 'Bank of Tokyo' and Australia 'Crocodile Dundee'. David Horsey (b. 1951) was an editorial cartoonist working for the Seattle Post Intelligencer when he drew this, the second of two world maps focusing on Reagan foreign policy (the first, 1982, shows Brezhnev as his foe). He won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1999 and 2003. He now works for the Los Angeles Times