Big
business became bigger during the 1980s, when deregulation legislation
gave corporations more freedom. Wall Street witnessed an increase in volatile
junk bond financing and illicit insider trading. Herb Block's cartoons
from the period offer his commentaries on such issues as gun control,
the environment, abortion, and televangelists. He took issue with President
Reagan's domestic policies and foreign ventures in Lebanon, Iran and Central
America. In June 1989, he drew a grim memorial to the dissidents killed
by Chinese soldiers at Beijing's Tiananmen Square area.





































