" We will either find a way or make one. "
HANNIBAL
One of my heroes of all time. What a tactician and leader. We need a guy like this in the White House now. I'd hate to run in to this guy in an alley on a dark night.
This is a great quote to write on a piece of paper and place it above your drawing board where you can see it every day. This is the kind of attitude to be a selling cartoonist or writer.
Reminds me - - - In one of Mort Walker's early books, he spoke about while in living in New York in the early fifties pounding the streets getting started in this crazy business, he had this kind of an attitude - - - He wrote on the bathroom mirror with lipstick, a place where he would see the message every morning while shaving, the following simple statement: " I will not be denied. "
This simple story sends chills up my spine. You can't stop a man that wants to go somewhere. ( Not with an attitude like that. ) No wonder he is where he is. It doesn't surprise ME. He is one of my cartoon idols. What a role model !
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- Roy Delgado
- Petersburg, WV, United States
- After graduating from Tucson High School in 1953 I attended the Billy Hon School of Cartooning in Los Angeles. I then joined the U.S. Marines for four years, and ended up in Washington, D.C.. After getting honourably discharged, I enrolled at the Corcoran School of Art where I studied figure drawing. In 1976 I founded and was CEO of a 34 man sign company specializing in Trade Show Decorations, Exhibits and Signage for the largest 100 Associations in the U.S. We later expanded and added an electrical sign division where we designed and manufactured electrical signs for many Fortune 500 companies. The company was sold in 2oo2. I now draw cartoons passionately full-time from my mountain-top home and studio in wild & wonderful West Virginia. My cartoons have appeared regularly in the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Harvard Business Review, Reader's Digest, etc. and recently Playboy magazine where Mr. Hefner just purchased 15 colour cartoons in May and June of 2007. CONTACT Roy Delgado PO Box 1135 Petersburg WV 26827 304.749.7137 roy.delgado@gmail.com
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That's a great story. Now, whose lipstick as it I wonder? Ha ha!
Admiral Peary's motto was "Find a way or make one" too. When his North Pole claims were found to be false in the 1990s, I thought that should be changed to "Find a way or fake one."
Hi Mike -
Very good question - - - next time you see him, YOU ask him where he got the lipstick. Also, while you're at it, ask him about the dress, wig and 5 inch high heel pumps in his closet - - just kidding, they were mine - - - I left everything there from a previous visit.
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