Cartoon of the Day

Hopefully the guys in Afghanistan can find a couple minutes to grill some marshmallows inbetween everything going on, but I doubt it.

Leatherneck cartoon 2010

This drawing appears on page 24 in the March issue.

 It's good to be back on a pretty regular basis inside LEATHERNECK, Magazine of the Marines.

I sold my first cartoon to them while in the Marines, stationed on Okinawa in 1956, later on I ended up at Marine Barracks ( The showplace of the Corps ) in Washington D.C. and in July, 1958 I sold a double-page spread all about cartoons with the Fourth of July as a theme.  Back then, they would feature one cartoonist for this regular feature and they would assign a double-truck to you.  I distinctly remember, they paid $125.00 for the double-page, it wasn't bad money back then.

By the time I got to Washington, D.C., Staff-Sergeant Gordon Bess was no longer the cartoon editor and the duties had gone to a fine artist-illusrator by the name of Bill Machin, who also did some cartoons for the magazine.  I remember visiting the magazine on a Saturday in person, while a Sergeant at Marine Barracks.  Got to meet everybody at the magazine . . . off and on I've been a contributor and now I'm back in kinda steady or as the juices flow in that vein.

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Occasionaly, from time to time, my memory drifts back
to when I spent four years in the Marines. So whenever I decide to draw a military cartoon I always use a marine setting - - as those four years are imbedded in my mind forever - - - While stationed on Okinawa, once they found out I was a signpainter in civilian life, I always had a list of signs to paint for the captain, or the colonel - - or the general !
In fact, it came in so handy - - I never had to spend one day doing mess duty - - every time a sergeant asked if I've had mess duty yet, I would say no, followed by a " Right now I can't, I'm working on a sign for the colonel and he has to have it by Friday ! " ( which was usually true )
This always worked for a couple weeks - - then again, I'd go through the whole routine - - then I'd go through the whole routine AGAIN - - - And again, and again, and again! Luckily, I never did one day of mess duty in four years.

In the military, this type of a person is known
as a " GOLDBRICK ". ( A negative term usually referring to a lazy person, or a person who gets out of a work detail with a phony excuse . . it is called "MALINGERING " - - which is a chargable offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and punishable by something like three months in the brig.
Of course, from the OFFENDER'S point of view, he thinks he's shrewed or slick or smart ( actually, it's more like " Young & Dumb " ). Was I guilty? YES. I was young and dumb once .
now I'm no longer young.
Nuf sed on this one.

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Roy Delgado Cartoon - National Review

This drawing came out in the Septemper 6, 1993 issue of The National Review Magazine.
Right after it appeared, I received a phone call from the Pentagon and it came from the Aide to the then Army General of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It seems that the Army General was getting ready to retire and the office had planned to throw him a farewell party . . . Someone had seen the cartoon and they wanted to know if they could buy the original so they could give it to the General, framed, as a gift, because I was told, it was a spittin' image of him!
The only difference, I had to change the Marine uniform to an Army officer's uniform! That was no problem.

New Reader's Digest Cartoon

This cartoon is in the May issue, page 54, just out. I always use the Marine Corps uniform when drawing a military gag since I know I can get the uniform right . . it's ingrained in my
head forever.

Current Reader's Digest Cartoon -

Here's one of two of mine in the February issue of the magazine. This one is on page 50 ( Humor in Uniform section ). Funny thing, when I first completed this, I thought of it as a New Yorker cartoon, so I shot it off to them believing that finally I might crack the magazine . . so after the usual rejection, I immediately sent it to Reader's Digest and they bought it instantly.

As usual, I always use a Marine's uniform, since it's more familiar to me and I don't have to worry about getting the uniform wrong!

Leatherneck Cartoon 2007

This recent cartoon from the September 2007 issue . I Sold the first one to this magazine while stationed with the Marines on Okinawa in 1956-57 . . Good to be in the same issue with legendary New Yorker cartoonist and also a former Marine, GEORGE BOOTH, who was also stationed on Okinawa 10 years before me . . . . The big difference is that he was in the BATTLE OF OKINAWA . . by the time I got there it was all over.