Vintage Luckovich cartoons: 1996 Atlanta Olympics

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Vintage Luckovich cartoons: 1996 Atlanta Olympics

Mike Luckovich editorial cartoons: The 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. While the world was visiting, the local Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution was out among the visitors sketching and drawing the Atlanta Games.

July 1996: Mike envisions the opening ceremonies.

July 1996: MIke has a humorous take on Coca-Cola sponsorship.

July 1996: The world literally came to Atlanta's doorstep for the Games.

July 1996: As anyone who rode MARTA knew, the trains could be a little crowded.

July 1996: Of course we all wondered about Atlanta weather in mid-summer during the Games.

July 1996: Visiting journalists had some criticism of transportation.

July 1996: Mike's illustration of the spirit of the Atlanta Games after the Centennial Olympic Park bombing.

July 1996: A father tells his son that the man wearing a bomb disposal suit is not Izzy, the Atlanta Games mascot.

July 1996: Celebrating the reopening of Centennial Olympic Park after the bombing.

July 1996: Track star Carl Lewis was the epitome of longevity.

Mike's take on the closing ceremony.

August 1996: People who complained about commercialism often bought into it, too.

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July 1996: Mike envisions the opening ceremonies.

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