Bulgert the Bulldog comic

Wall Street Journal cartoon - Roy Delgado

In today's Wall Street Journal you see this cartoon, just emailed to me from Don Cresci . . . for my eyes who can't be everywhere at once.  Don Cresci is not only a great gagwriter but a vey good cartoonist as well.  His cartoons have appeared in almost all the major markets.  This particular cartoon was sold almost nine months ago . . . . many times they hold a cartoon for printing at an opportune time . . . the way the economy for businesses are going, this one would have fit just about any time in the last year or so.

Harvard Business Review cartoon - Roy Delgado

This drawing appears in this current magazine on the stands now . . .  Harvard Business Review, September issue on page 32. Two other cartoons appear on the same page, one by Tim Lachowski, who has a featured cartoon on Comics Sherpa website ( GET A LIFE ) and another fine cartoon by the ubiqutous Dave Carpenter. Both funny gags.

Plum Loco Comic of the Day -

When it's my turn to go, I want to be buried with 20,000 New Yorker rejection slips in my casket.  ( Maybe a few wadded up and stuffed in my mouth ? )  Nice and simple, not complicated.  I want Jeramiah Wright to do the eulogy and Father P-h-f-f-fleger to assist and I want Blago Blagojevich, Bill Ayers, Cass Sustein, Van Jones, Bernadette Dorn and Anita Dunn to be my pallbearers.  Oh yes, and bury me with my cold dead fingers wrapped around my Glock.  G'Day !

PETER PLUM

Prospect Magazine, U.K. cartoon by Roy Delgado

This drawing appears in the United Kingdom's slick magazine Prospect on page 14 of the current September issue.  This is my first appearance in this magazine and I was invited to continue to submit on a regular basis.  It was my first attempt, my first submission. 

Kind of the opposite with my story at The New Yorker where after over 19.000 rejections ( Starting way back in 1953 ) . . .  in about 1998 I asked 4 times in writing what was I doing wrong.  I finally got a phone call by Bob Mankoff telling me:  1. ) Don't send so much and  2. ) Don't make my name so big and,  3. ) My stuff, gags AND drawings were were too corny.

" I didn't believe it.  I still don't believe it. "

I'd sent this cartoon to The New Yorker first, ( just a few weeks ago ) then after an automatic rejection there, I carefully got together a batch of about 15 cartoons of my best ( All New Yorker rejects ) and mailed them over the pond to Prospect Magazine in the U.K. determined to sell there.  Then bingo, they bought this one faster than Grant went through Richmond from my very first batch.

" You gotta be careful what you believe. "

Roy Delgado

Buljert the Bulldog - Comic of the Day

Buljert the Bulldog - Comic of the Day

Interesting, I started with the Plum Loco Comic blog to bring out the new daily panel and before you know it, Buljert comes out of nowhere and jumps up on the stage . . . wait a minute, here.  What is going on?  There's room for both, I think.

Buljert and family

You might as well meet the crew - - - right now it's The Boswells ( Buck and Betsy ), Bilford the mailman, young Billy, and the two cats, not in the picture ( were out looking for mice when this photo shoot took place!

Buljert the Bulldog - Comic of the Day

Buljert the Bulldog - Comic of the Day

Buljert the Bulldog - Comic of the Day

Another installment - - - I feel Buljert coming more alive with every episode - - -  gosh, what a trip this is becoming - - - - - - the fun doesn't get any better than this - - - I'd like to see him interact with the mailman, Bilford - - -  the dog catcher, the two cats - - - it's coming - - - stay tuned- - -  

16238 Woman's World cartoon - Delgado

This drawing appears on page 51, of  the August 30, 2010 issue.  The staff at the magazine do the coloring and usually do a pretty nifty job at it.  I'd forgotten to sign it, after I'd scanned it so I inserted my name on the scanned drawing using the " Andy " font.  I usually italicize it, but this time I forgot.  I gotta remember to sign the original drawing . . . can you imagine Rembrandt FORGETTING to sign his name ? or Picasso or Pollock or Jimmy Hatlo ? - - - I doubt it.

Sick Plum Loco Comic

HOW ABOUT THAT ? . . HONEST AHMED'S USED CARS  . . . This cartoon is not meant to be funny . . . in fact there is nothing funny about it . . . in fact it could be said that it is in poor taste.  I agree.   However, however . . .  try to picture this scene now . . .through the eyes of some semi-illiterate poor Al Queda youth  sap,  ( in a small remote village near Kandahar ), who, as he is strapping on and adjusting his suicide belt with explosives around his chest . . . and as he double-checks the timer, his buddy shows him this editorial cartoon from a local Al Queda-sympathizing  newspaper ( The Daily Goat Herder or something like that  ) . . . . I don't know . .  it MIGHT be funny to him, but I guarantee you, it would definately generate a lttle verbal response to all the room . . . don't you think ?

LOL

LOGOS - The divine wisdom manifest in the creation, government, and redemption of the world and often identified with the second person of the Trinity.  Reason that in ancient Greek philosophy is the controlling principle in the universe.

This is HEAVY.   This my LOL.   "Looking for the Logos."  . . . LOL

Peter Plum

Plum Loco Comic of the Day - New Math

Plum Loco Comic of the Day - More on Re: The Mosque at Ground Zero

Rumor has it, that now at the height of the controversy regarding of building the proposed mosque near Ground Zero . . . . NOW comes this breaking news: Although it is only a rumor at this time, reports are spreading all over, some say emanating from the mayor's office . . . . The planned opening of  the brand new New York Taxi Cab Driving School next door to the mosque !    What are you, nuts ?!

I still  have my fez from when I was the Recording Secretary of  The International Federation of the Royal Mystic Semiphores.  I was also the Grand Whale for the organisation for four consecutive terms prior to that.

A turban would be nice to place on  the shelf in my closet along side my fez. 

With the magazine cartoon markets disappearing and The New Yorker repeatedly using the services of a locksmith by changing the locks to their offices and therefore continuing to shut me out, the cab driving school  is sounding better all the time !  

16231 Buljert the Bulldog - Live, Right Here !

To me, Buljert is real . . . every day, he becomes more even more real and I am beginning to really know him . . .  and I am beginning to really love him as  he runs around the house and my studio sometimes being badgered by my two cats Rocky and Shadow  . . . but that's another story, you'll meet those guys too.

It doesn't get any better than this. ( Actually it could, but I'm trying to sound humble ).

16229 Buljert the Bulldog is coming to life !

16230 Buljert the Bulldog - Comic of the Day

Today's Wall Street Journal cartoon - Roy Delgado

This cartoon is in today's WSJ.

I like cliches - - -  Angels, Rich People, Gurus, Hell,  Heaven, Death, Greed, Bums er-r-rr homeless, Hirers - - - Something all of us are familiar with in one way or another abstract way - - - We either see the stuff or read about it or we're one step from these imaginary scenes.

Wall Street Journal cartoon - Roy Delgado

Here is a very recent cartoon which appeared in this fine periodical.  One of the few great newspapers in the United States still doing okay.  Pardon the poor image, it's a copy I retreived from the computer screen via their website.  Couldn't find my original hard copy !  I can see it in The New Yorker.  In fact, it COULD have been in the New Yorker if it hadn't been REJECTED from The New Yorker !  I sent it first to The Nyer, then quickly over to WSJ and bingo they purchased it.  Again, they blew it.  Sorry about that.

Recent Woman's World cartoon - Roy Delgado

This cartoon appears on page 57 of the magazine.  I think they do a pretty good job coloring the cartoons themselves.  This cartoon was actually drawn by Peter Plum, but signed by Roy Delgado.

Buljert the Bulldog - Comic of the Day

This is what happens when you don't pay attention at Obedience School. 

How can you get mad at this dog ?  I don't know, I know I couldn't get mad.

It's simple.  This dog loves his master, Mr. Boswell.

Easy to understand why the dog is called  man's best friend.  Cats are nice, too.

Bulljert the Bulldog Comic of the Day -

You too can write poems, songs, music . . . Publishers pay big money . . . we'll show you how . . . entire course in one 29 page How-to booklet . .  Only $1.00 - -  Money-back guarantee - - - Remember those ads you used to see in the backs of comic books ?  My favorite one was  " They all laughed when I sat down to play the piano"  . . . Some went on to say ( I love this opening line ) " AMAZE YOUR FRIENDS ! "

13732 - Plum Loco Comic of the Day

Buljert - Comic of the Day

What you don't know won't hurt you ( ? ).

Plum Loco Comic of the Day -

Buljert - cartoon of the day

It's no wonder, Buljert is insecure and is reminded once again, in this world of tables and chairs we live in . . . his true place in the universe !  Walk it off . . . Be a man !

16209 Cartoon of the day - Plum Loco Comic

Cartoon of the Day

Wanted to get this off and running or I'd put it on the shelf and lose interest . . . so now I can hop back and forth between Plum Loco and Buljert. 

It doesn't get any better than this.  It's 6:52 PM EST and my 12 hour day is up, now to go outside and get a little exercise by working on my rock wall and ivy plantings for about 45 minutes.

G'Day !

Roy Delgado Blog: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The New Yorker - - ( The Book )

Roy Delgado Blog: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to The New Yorker - - ( The Book )

First Buljert Comic

This is the very first panel the world will be introduced to tough-looking ( although helpless and cowardly ) bulldog named Buljert. 

Are you ready?   You'll be meeting his owners, Mr. & Mrs. Boswell, his son, Josh and the their cats, Rocky and Shadow soon.  And of course the mailman, Bilford.  Welcome aboard.

I've made Buljert a little too chubby, he'll probably be shedding a few pounds from here on, just a little.  A fat anything is usually funnier than a regular weight anything.  Can you imagine a skinny Garfiled ? No.

Final Buljert Logo, New Comic Panel

This comic idea is being displayed right here as it born, tweaked, talked about and will appear off and on along with Plum Loco Comic posts till there is about 30 to show to the syndicates!  Next is the very first panel.  This isn't a Reality Show, it's Actuality !

 This is the fun part, the actual creating something, where does it come from? A germ of an idea can stick and linger around in your brain for years.   In this case for many, many years.  When I was 15 years old and working in a sign shop in Tucson, Arizona, the boss had a son, about 7-8 years old that would hang around the shop on Saturdays playing with tools and paints, etc.  The boss would call his son Buljert as a nickname, and I kinda thought it was unique and maybe it would someday be a comic of some type !

You better be careful what you think about.  As the saying goes, because it may come true !

Somebody move over, because there's a new ashow in town !

16188 Cartoon of the day

With the Proposition vote in California being nullified by the Judge a couple days ago and the goings in Vermont and Massachussets, and then last night I just watched Dustin Hoffman on TV playing Lenny Bruce in Lenny. . . . It makes you want to go out on the edge . . . as I did with the last two postings.
As long as it is not not too bad taste, why NOT have cartoons on the subject . . . No sacred cows, no more.   Let it ALL hang out !   As for the Lenny film, I couldn't watch more than five minutes . Too eratic, jumbled up, whispering softly, muttering, laughing, coughing . . I finally hopped over to another channel for awhile, then I tried again and it got worse. 

I actually followed Lenny Bruce's career and I guess that is the way it actually was . . expletitive, coughing, muttering, whispering, laughing. . drinking booze, plenty of the weed,  after awhile, I poured myself a double shot of Captain Morgan's Spiced Rum on ice and said the hell with it and watched Intermezzo with Ingrid Bergman and then dozed off.  It doesn't get better then this.

16185 Cartoon of the day

16176 Cartoon of the day

Man, all I can say is anyone who really loves squid will eat warm rubber bands with a little salt and pepper. To each his own I guess. 

Reminds me of the little old lady in a line at the Deli Sandwich Bar.  The guy in front of her orders a cow's boiled beef tongue sandwich on whole wheat.  The lady says how can you eat that stuff  ?!- - - you know that it's been in a cow's mouth before you're going to eat it !?

She looks at the clerk and says give me a hard boiled egg sandwich on white bread.

nuff sed.

16146 Wall Street Journal cartoon

This is a very recent ( last week ) cartoon that appeared in one of the few major U.S. newspapers, the prestigious Wall Street Journal.  The cartoon was tight-pencilled by Roy Delgado and inked by Peter Plum using the Corel PaintShopPro9 program.  Since the newspaper only uses black and white art for the cartoons, the idea was to simulate a "washtone" effect using various dot patterns.  It seems to have worked.  The finish product had indeed the look of a wash drawing !

16144 Plum Loco Comic of the Day

Kind of could pass for Da Da art. . . . Is it GOOD BAD ART, or is it BAD GOOD ART ? . . . Those who don't know are speaking . . . and those who DO know, aren't talking.

16142 Johnnie Cochran Rhyming Dictionary cartoon

Whether you agree with him or not, no doubt, he was one helluva lawyer.  His famous quip: " If it don't fit, you must acquit. " . . . . It boggles the mind of even a moron like me watching that scene . . . HEY, HEY ! . . . try it WITHOUT, WITHOUT the rubber gloves, THEN, THEN see if it fits ! ?

Look, It's not them, it's me. 

Off the wall comic

Plum Loco Comic is by definition a cartoon panel that smacks of humor in the vein of Bizarro, and The Far Side . . . two of my favorites. Their humor catches you off guard and seem to always make you smile or laugh out loud . . . or you want to share the laugh with someone else.  Hopefully Plum Loco will do that.  

Revised BULJERT logo

I thought I'd do this project out in the open.  Show you how it came about.  The name BULJERT has always been in the back of my head for a catchy name of a comic. Way back since when I was 15 years old working in a sign shop in Tucson, Arizona, the bosses' son was then about 9 years old and kid would hang around the shop on Saturday mornings and fool around with the paints and stuff.  The boss had given his son a nickname of " BULJERT".  I liked the name and it never left my mind.

I first used the name in an early PLUM LOCO  panel  ( on this blog ) referring to a morbidly obese kid. I knew it was politically incorrect, trying to maybe use the fat kid as a springboard to his own comic.  But upon further contemplation, I scrapped the idea.  I knew it just wouldn't fly in the straight comic world.

I couple weeks later, since I love dog and cat cartoons . . . it came, Wham ! . . . BULJERT THE BULLDOG !

So, first I had the name . . then, the character . . .  sounds backwards, but what the heck, I'll do it.  I quickly worked on the logo . . . after seeing it on my blog for a few days, the spacing between the L and J just did not look right, so I changed it into what you see here.  The moral here is that it is ALWAYS to let what you think is a  a good idea sit around a few days more,  let it jell till it's ripe . . . so you can refine it for presentation.  It's a rule I preach but I made a mistake . . . anyway, now it feels right . . . but that, actually is the fun part of this business, the creating.  Now, let's see what happens to BULJERT out there in the universe !  Only time will tell.  I can see a Tee Shirt already and coffee mugs and mouse pads, and baseball caps and bedspreads and ( As you can see I sometimes suffer from delusions of grandeur ).  But hey, that's okay to dream . . .  the last I heard, you gotta have a dream before a dream can come true.

Now to develop the charcter personalities of  BULJERT'S nemesis,  Bilford the Postman . .  Mr. Boswell, the dog's owner and his son and a couple of cats who enjoy ridiculing BULJERT.

This post will be noted as the day BULJERT was given a peek of a project in the works. THE BIRTH OF BULJERT !