 The cartoon, entitled "The Royal Feast of Belshazzar Blaine and the Money Kings" and co-drawn by Valerian Gribayedoff, was reprinted on billboards across New York and Blaine lost the state, and thus the election, by little over 1,000 votes.Author Michael R. Smith writes McDougall and Gribayedoff "may have created the most influential political cartoon in United States history.