Eugene Gray Payne (January 29, 1919 – October 14, 2010) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American political cartoonist and writer.
The cartoon implied that the Vietnam War was secondary to civil rights issues in America.
In 1968 Payne won the Pulitzer Prize for a group of ten cartoons that focused on the Vietnam War and Civil Rights Issues.
It showed Churchill in a hat with a big cigar rising above the earth with his right hand forming a "V" for victory.
[2] After an eleven year stint with the Charlotte Observer Payne went to work at WSOC-TV as an editorial cartoonist.