Wow Lee, that was educational & interesting, seriously. It appears that with years of experience, you have gained professional wisdom. Too bad that hasn't happened for our current Congress.
No idea which wise man said it, but I always liked "smaller errors make the master." You're always going to to screw up, just make the screw ups smaller. Congress is a whole other set of problems.
And here I thought I was just complaining. Do I get a cut?
It’s so interesting to hear about your techniques. I used something similar when I still worked. Saturated colors—or complete black—will always draw the eye. Advertisers who want to fill their space with text and graphics are wasting their money. No one can read that crap.
Laugh out loud funny to hear about your presentation in Lubbock. If your friendship survived that, it’s solid.
Ok, next subject for you to tackle: What’s with these big league ball players wearing over the knee girls field hockey pants? They look ridiculous in their tights and knickers.
I've spoken with my board of directors and since over 90% of our readers don't pay there's not much pie to slice up, but thanks for playing.
I didn't know if anyone besides me and you would find that interesting, but the numbers are pretty good.
My buddy has a VERY good sense of humor and even though he called me names when he got off the stage, we both laughed about it and to this day can't figure out what happened to the students of Texas Tech. But standup comedians say the same thing: once in a while nothing works and if that happened every night you'd quit working.
Agree on the baseball pants and I don't get the football players who do the same thing and don't wear knee pads. Take a helmet off a kneecap and you're going to regret your fashion choices.
Three things occur to me with the baseball players: changing the length of your pants is one of the ways to fight a slump. If you're not hitting, switch things up. And high pants used to be one of the ways to convince umpires that a low pitch was a ball. But I'd think the ASB system doesn't care about your pants. And finally, Jason Kendall said it over and over: "People forget they're kids."
I've got some extremely regrettable fashion choices in my past and thank God we didn't have cell phone cameras and social media back then.
🧵Listen, political cartoonists are some of my most favorite people: Artists with brains!
I was 12-14 during Watergate. It was my political awakening. For a school project about OUTLINING, & maybe government as well, I TYPED the entire Constitution in outline form, on the library typewriter. And I covered the gray pebbled 3️⃣-prong folder with editorial cartoons by the national cartoonists of the day, like HERBLOCK.
Still have that project, too. (Although, it’s at the other house, kind of hard for me to get there, with my hip & all, and other things I can’t write).
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I tell Mike Luckovich he’s 12 days “wiser” than I am, that’s how close we are in age.
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Anyway, your cartooning style harks back to the cartoons I knew & remember from then. I “grok” it immediately, and I don’t mean ANYTHING to do with “Twitter”.
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I also happen to like Victor Vashi, a lot! I recently bought another copy off of eBay, because my original copy from the ‘70s is at the other house and…, it’s complicated… [voice trails off…]. Published in 1967, actually, although I only read it in the ‘70s.
Just hearing the words "Kansas City Times" took me back. ❤️
Me too.
The "Reagan no longer a complete asshole" cartoon hooked me forever to your sense of humor.
And speaking of making complicated things look easy, how about Bobby Witt playing shortstop?
Bobby Witt Jr. appears to one of those guys other Big League players hold in awe.
Wow Lee, that was educational & interesting, seriously. It appears that with years of experience, you have gained professional wisdom. Too bad that hasn't happened for our current Congress.
No idea which wise man said it, but I always liked "smaller errors make the master." You're always going to to screw up, just make the screw ups smaller. Congress is a whole other set of problems.
And here I thought I was just complaining. Do I get a cut?
It’s so interesting to hear about your techniques. I used something similar when I still worked. Saturated colors—or complete black—will always draw the eye. Advertisers who want to fill their space with text and graphics are wasting their money. No one can read that crap.
Laugh out loud funny to hear about your presentation in Lubbock. If your friendship survived that, it’s solid.
Ok, next subject for you to tackle: What’s with these big league ball players wearing over the knee girls field hockey pants? They look ridiculous in their tights and knickers.
I've spoken with my board of directors and since over 90% of our readers don't pay there's not much pie to slice up, but thanks for playing.
I didn't know if anyone besides me and you would find that interesting, but the numbers are pretty good.
My buddy has a VERY good sense of humor and even though he called me names when he got off the stage, we both laughed about it and to this day can't figure out what happened to the students of Texas Tech. But standup comedians say the same thing: once in a while nothing works and if that happened every night you'd quit working.
Agree on the baseball pants and I don't get the football players who do the same thing and don't wear knee pads. Take a helmet off a kneecap and you're going to regret your fashion choices.
Three things occur to me with the baseball players: changing the length of your pants is one of the ways to fight a slump. If you're not hitting, switch things up. And high pants used to be one of the ways to convince umpires that a low pitch was a ball. But I'd think the ASB system doesn't care about your pants. And finally, Jason Kendall said it over and over: "People forget they're kids."
I've got some extremely regrettable fashion choices in my past and thank God we didn't have cell phone cameras and social media back then.
🧵Listen, political cartoonists are some of my most favorite people: Artists with brains!
I was 12-14 during Watergate. It was my political awakening. For a school project about OUTLINING, & maybe government as well, I TYPED the entire Constitution in outline form, on the library typewriter. And I covered the gray pebbled 3️⃣-prong folder with editorial cartoons by the national cartoonists of the day, like HERBLOCK.
Still have that project, too. (Although, it’s at the other house, kind of hard for me to get there, with my hip & all, and other things I can’t write).
——
I tell Mike Luckovich he’s 12 days “wiser” than I am, that’s how close we are in age.
——
Anyway, your cartooning style harks back to the cartoons I knew & remember from then. I “grok” it immediately, and I don’t mean ANYTHING to do with “Twitter”.
——
I also happen to like Victor Vashi, a lot! I recently bought another copy off of eBay, because my original copy from the ‘70s is at the other house and…, it’s complicated… [voice trails off…]. Published in 1967, actually, although I only read it in the ‘70s.
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And I love Michael de Adder today.
Always happy to hear from a fan of political cartoons.