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National Review cartoon - Roy delgado

Here's one of my favorites that I sold to National Review magazine that I happened to run across in my files . . . I actually saw a poor sap like this at Union station in Washington, D.C. back in the '80's - - - and people ask: " Where do you get your ideas ? " . . . 

  I think you have to be very observant, usually the ideas are not given to you in complete form, ready to use, but by free-association, it's amazing what is actually out there floating in the ether - - - the secret is to "pluck" one going by, put it in your folder - - - and come back later to it and keep tweaking it - - many times, something comes up - - - they are out there. 

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I remember years ago in the old Saturday Evening Post magazine, you could easily see a cartoon like this, poking fun at what a bad driver women were - - - it was always a woman who was a bad driver.

Men were good drivers, women were bad drivers.  As long as it was the woman who was driving stupidly, it was funny - - - but put a man as the bad driver and some would say, it just isn't funny when the lousy driver is a man - - - h-m-m-n ?

What are you , nuts ? 

About that time Dylan's song, ' Times they are a changin, ' was telling us of a peek of what was a happening - - - and talkin about a whole lot of other changing values of a group, or mores  - - - The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind - - -  

As more and more editorships of magazines were posts being held by women, all of a sudden, hey, whats so funny about it's always a woman who is the bad driver, stop it !  Men are stupid drivers, too.

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This is one of my favorite recent cartoons off my drawing board . . . having hired my bit of laborers over the years, you would be surprised of what people do when you guess or estimate how intelligent someone is by just looking at them and not really interviewing them like you should . . .

Just because a person looks like a duck and walks like a duck, it does not mean it is a duck . . . Oh-h, did I find out . . . people who couldn't read the little tick mark measurements on a  yardstick . . . just for starters . . . the stories from my sign shop would have made a great reality show . . . maybe in my memoir book I'll tell the rest of the story . . . and countless others that will guarantee to amuse and educate you . . .

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Rumor going around that this is a preview of the new international graphic symbols to be adopted and to be implemented at all international airports starting April 1, 2010.

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American Legion Magazine cartoon

Here is another drawing that appears on page 60 in the December 2009 issue of the mag.

American Legion Magazine cartoon

This drawing appears on page 64 in the August issue.  The drawing was submitted as a black and white, then after receiving an 'okay', a color version was requested. 
I then colored it using my Corel PaintShopPro 9 Program and printed it on a sheet of Premium Matte Kodak Photographic paper.  I find I get excellent results doing it this way.

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Vice-President Joe Biden with an observation on the street . .

Here is a good one for the " What it's Worth Dept. " . . As most of you know, I've been sending cartoons to the New Yorker since most of you were born . . AND I've been rejected over 20,000 times . . that's Okay, Hey, we can't ALL sell to The New Yorker  ( In fact, it's not really "no big deal", but, I'm not used to failing, and maybe, that is where the problem is, it ain't over till it's over )  . . That doesn't really bother me at all . . it's just NOW, believe it or not, is getting to be fun . . . what I started doing about six months ago ( after a suggestion from a New Yorker office insider ) is I've been shot-gunning batches USPS simultaneously to all three editors at The New Yorker that do the final selections for the cartoons to be purchased that week . . this tipster person figured that possibly, just POSSIBLY, ONE of the three MIGHT, JUST MIGHT see a cartoon and would say, EUREKA! . . . looka dis !  The poor bastard FINALLY sent us one that I think is as good or better than the stuff we've been buying . . After all this guy sells to every magazine OUR New Yorker cartoonists sell to . .  Man ! I GOTTA show this to my collegues . . Wait a minute . .  this bastard has been sending to all three of us at the same time !  Why didn't somebody SAY something ?  I didn't want to say anything, one said, another said, I was AFRAID to say anything and what difference does it make we AIN'T A GONNA buy this poor bastard's work . . ANYWAY . . And the other one said, Yeh, but one of us shoulda said sumphin' . . HEY ! We've been HAD !  Don't you SEE, he's been trying to fool us ! . . Just for that . . . Now we are NOT NOW OFFICIALLY, POSITIVELY, ABSOLUTELY NOT EVER GONNA BUY ! Let the poor bastard twist in the wind ! was the final agreement by all three . . who the hell does this bastard think he is . . ANYWAY ?  He can't MAKE us buy ( unless maybe the ACLU picked up the case ) . . this guy HAS to be a brick shy of a load, maybe Pat Byrnes was right, this guy is "almost embarrassing to the profession . . " ( Is this a profession ? , I always thought it was just an easy way to make a fast buck. ) 

The irony of all this is that in every batch I would include a courteous letter, typed and addressed to each of the guys stating and underlining the sentence that there was no need to return these drawings because they were just copies ( Obviously it was a gesture, thinking of Al Gore, that I was trying to save their time and paper and postage,energy, etc.

 I.e. I didn't WANT to know if they were rejecting them . . I only wanted to hear from them IF, IF they wanted to buy . . I actually wanted to have the last word, in each transaction . . You see,I've been running the show all my life and having my way and I forget that I'm no longer CEO of a company with 32 minions, I forget . but NO, NO . . They thought, HE ain't running THIS show . . WE ARE RUNNING THE SHOW . . SO-O-O, here is what happens next, in the mail yesterday, I get a batch back in a 9x12 grey printed New Yorker logo envelope with THEIR postage, and inside was the my letter AND my returned rejects, which I TOLD them NOT to return, it was the letter I addressed to the real editor and they were returning my cartoons with a rejection slip, AND, AND the cartoon editor with a blue pen crossed off the editor's name in the letter AND printed HIS name . . . in other words, HEY ! send ME, Da DRAWINS, NOT HIM, You Moron.  Not even a note . . Don't make waves ! . . HEY ! 

Now I know what Kahlil Gibran meant in The Prophet . . when he said: " Do not be a solver of riddles. " . . by doing it without a word he won THIS particular chess move . .

Was watching East of Eden last night again with James Dean and the scene when he's up in his mother's room trying to borrow $5000.00 to make an investment and give his religiously devout Dad ( Raymond Massey )for a loss of money in a bad unfortunate business accident he suffered from . .  He just found out that his estranged mother, Agnes Morehead was a very successful brothel owner and that all of the city officials went to her place of business when it got dark and his hypocritically devout Dad and the city big wheels were all a bunch of phonies who looked down on her during the day and here, Massey needs to be bailed out by of all people, his ex-wife using tainted money ! . . And his mother starts to laugh almost hysterically and says to her son, who isn't laughing . . " SON, IF YOU DON'T THINK THIS IS FUNNY, YOU BETTER NOT GO TO COLLEGE ! "

That's how I felt . .  

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Recent Wall Street Journal Cartoon - NYer reject

Here's of those cartoons you do where you are positive, absolutely positive that this one will be the one that The New Yorker will buy after getting over 20,ooo rejections there . . . Every time . . . Every time I feel like this, on a certain drawing . . every time I feel like this, I send it to The New Yorker first, ( Actually, I send it to The NYer first, because I will not be denied, I'm not asking , like Howard Roark in The Fountainhead put it so eloquently, " Rather than ask, who will LET me, I ask, who will STOP me ? " ) mainly because I KNOW it belongs in the magazine . . . go ahead, ask ANYBODY . . I send it there first really only because I KNOW, am absolutely positive that one day, they will finally say YES, because they will not be able to stand the temptation . . Anyway, it got rejected, as usual . . . . I shot it over to The Wall Street Journal and they bought it, quick, very quick, extremely quick. If not, I'm pretty sure Playboy would have bought it .

The clip was sent by Don Cresci . . being out here in the country, if I subscribed to the WSJ print edition, I think it would take a week to deliver here.

I'll shut up and get back to the drawing board, where I belong . . . Like someone told Barbra Streisand, " Shut up and sing ! "

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