Grondahl Restored 56

After a partially unintended hiatus on Grondahl cartoons, I’m starting again with Marketing Precedes The Miracle. This week’s cartoon is the cover to that book.  Published in 1987, this one was produced in the thick of the post- Mark Hofmann era, and in the middle of an economic boom in the US. The back cover comments on some of the changes going on at the time– changes that are now common place to us:  

“In a day when Mormon chapels are built from uniform blueprints, when satellite dishes bring play by play  BYU sports events to every participating congregation and when the Church News reports the Historical Departments’s closing of important historical sources under the headline “Archives Now More Accessible, ” Calvin Grondahl– Editorial cartoonist for the Ogden Standard-Examiner– brings all the irony of contemporary  Mormonism into sharp focus with this new compilation of Mormon cartoons. “

Some of the Grondahl cartoons are a bit dated, but sadly enough, we’ve made very little progress in many of the areas he lampoons.  By the way, the background of the cover is an image of stock prices in a newspaper. :)  

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For other cartoons in this series,  click here.    This cartoon, as always, is posted with the kind permission of    The Sunstone  Foundation  and  Calvin Grondahl.

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