Wisdom ( Write this one down )

" There are two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is
a miracle.

ALBERT EINSTEIN, 1879-1955
GERMAN-BORN AMERICAN PHYSICIST

Wisdom ( For a cartoonist )

" Don't let 'em see you sweat, Roy . . "

TOM CHENEY, American Cartoonist
( Good, excellent advice to me a few years back, when I was a little down . . )

Wisdom ( For a cartoonist )

" It don't matter how many times you get knocked down . . what matters is how many times you get back up. "

ROCKY BALBOA

Roy Delgado New Business Card

Here's a peek at my new business card. Would highly recommend a company I found on the internet . . VISTAPRINT.COM . . They not only produce excellent work real fast . . and they'll mail you a bunch of samples to look at free so you can see exactly the kind of work they do . . before you order yours . .

No, I don't get a thing out of bragging about them and I do not know them other than this one transaction . . I just like to tell someone when I think I get a good deal . . and when someone does a nice job . . I simply downloaded my files to them and man, everything is so quick now . .
slam, bam, thank you, ma'm ! Right now, they even have a special where they'll print a few cards, I think 25 or something like that, for FREE ! It's a new day, baby.

Notice , just about all of the important magazines are listed on that business card except the G - - D - - - - New Yorker - - - There are a LOT of cartoonists better than myself that can say the same thing as myself . . No really big deal, just a fact. I just find it interesting . . interesting as hell . . . How in the living hell can a moron from Chicago say that Roy Delgado is not " smart " enough to sell the New Yorker ! H-M-M-N ? Arrogance ? Bluster ? Undiluted Bullshit ? What is it ? . . Or a little of everything ? Low I.Q ? He mis-spoke, perhaps like Sonia Sotomayor ? Maybe he meant something else . .
H-M-M-N ?

I respect what the last New Yorker Cartoon Editor, Lee Lorenz told me, remarking to the fact that I had not sold the New Yorker . . He simply told me that this fact puts you in the company of a LOT of good cartoonists ! What a class act., Lee Lorenz.

Even though he rejected a ton of material of mine, he would put little notes on some of the drawings with a real soft pencil . . little helpful notes commenting on the gag or the drawing . . it showed at least the man was LOOKING at your stuff and was trying to be helpful . . and IT WAS helpful . . encouraging . . !

Things I need to tell you . .

I just drove by a little country church in nearby Strasburg, Virginia . .
The changeable letter board sign by the roadside today read:

" THE REASON TALK IS CHEAP IS BECAUSE THE SUPPLY EXCEEDS THE DEMAND "

I love it !

Piers Baker Cartoonist

This machine and invention . . electricity . . numbers . . plusses and minuses . . the blog . . the internet . . networking . . geekery . . continues to fascinate me . . ( Can you just IMAGINE Socrates and Plato with a computer ? )
Something very strange just happened . . as I was posting the last blog, and I was about to press " PUBLISH BLOG " . . . when I told it to publish, I saw on my screen in full color the website for Piers Baker Syndicated Cartoonist . . then it quickly disappeared so I exitted ( one or 2 t's ? ) my blog. And then I punched in and went to a site called Piers Baker Syndicated Cartoonist from across the pond.

His Website appeared on my screen. I was delighted to visit a really great and talented cartoonist. I would urge anyone who is NOT familiar with this man's work to pay him a visit. ( How this happened I don't know, doesn't matter )
I'm sure a geek could explain this event . . but it DID freak me out for a moment.

I notice it never lands on a porn site !

Reader's Digest Cartoon Book CORRECTION

CORRECTION : In an earlier blog I mispoke when I said that in the Reader's Digest Cartoon Book " LAUGHTER IS THE BEST MEDICINE ", that I had the most cartoons in the book than any other cartoonist . . . WRONG . . . . I was going by my stupid memory . . and my friend and collegue, Dan Reynolds just reminded me to check the facts . . and the facts and the truth is BOTH Dan Reynolds and Roy Delgado had the most cartoons in the book . They BOTH had 16 cartoons in the book . " To err is human, to forgive is divine."
( What else can I say ! ? )

I am only interested in facts. And this is a fact. Opinions, especially in Art, like what is GOOD art and what is BAD art or what is GOOD cartooning and what is BAD cartooning can cause a fairly "GOOD" cartoonist to begin to "linger" around the grape, if you know what I mean.