Friday, May 26, 2017

THE UNDER-THE-CHIN LIGHTING TRICK SCARY PEOPLE LIKE TO USE


Boris Karloff.


Bela Lugosi.


Maria Ouspenskaya.


Rondo Hatton.


Donald Trump.

NO SCARY MAKEUP REQUIRED


Donald Trump.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 10


Maria Ouspenskaya.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 9


Michelle Obama.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 8


Nan Wynn.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 7


Judy.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 6


Debbie Reynolds.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 5


Fenella Fielding.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 4


Janice Rule.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 3


Virna Lisi.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 2


Virginia Leith.

SMART WOMEN STUPID CHOICES 1


Anita Ekberg.

Monday, May 22, 2017

Wednesday, May 17, 2017

LEAR'S

In the 1980s Jay Kennedy freelanced as cartoon editor for several other magazines in addition to Esquire. He also got me into the short-lived Lear's:


DOUBLE DIP

After I sold the "Challah" cartoon to Esquire, I used it in a greeting card:

Tuesday, May 16, 2017

ESQUIRE

With all of the reporting on cartoon editor Bob Mankoff leaving the New Yorker and going to Esquire...


... It's been said that Esquire stopped publishing cartoons in the 1970s. What I haven't read is the fact that they briefly resumed the practice in the 1980s. I had two cartoons in the December, 1987 issue...



... and one in the February, 1991 issue.


The cartoon editor who brought this about was Jay Kennedy. Because we had worked together previously, Jay called me to request submissions. Later on Jay became editor-in-chief at King Features Syndicate, and he included me in their anthology comic panel, The New Breed. He was also sitting on a new comic proposal of mine at the time of his untimely death in 2007.

Monday, May 15, 2017