17906 Cartoon of the week - Roy Delgado

 

This cartoon is hot off the drawing board . . . I'm calling it the cartoon of the week because I want to . . . reminds me of the old Saturday Evening Post cartoons you used to see in 50s and 60s - You might call that era  " The golden age of magazine cartooning"  . . . in those days The Saturday Evening Post was the king, along with Colliers and Look and the multitude of Men's mags like True, Argosy, Cavalier, Saga, Stag, For Men Only . . . And also in those days a few cartoonists were making a comfortable living off of the many trade journals . . .and farm journals . . .  

Of course The New Yorker was still in a niche of its own with masters of the craft like Charles Addams, Sam Cobean, and  Steig , just to name a few . . .  no one else was interested in Dada cartoons at that time . . and then, right after the Vietnam war, The New Yorker took an even more visible abrupt left turn in the 60s and 70s along with America, along with the culture and media and many new artists joined the New Yorker cartoon field . . . people that in my opinion, didn't belong in this business were now running the show and began to dominate the show . . . and still are . . .  people that could not sell anywhere else found a home as long as they were writing their own gags, the drawing didn't matter, in fact the rule was nothing mattered, Alan Watts'  Zen book about nothing mattering was a hit . . . as they did believe right after the first world war and the beginning of the Dada movement . . these artists and writers banded together and what they said was it, and that was that . . . and to a certain degree still is . . .

Apparently, if you wanted a plumber, it was okay to call a carpenter, as long as it FELT good, . . . and all the staff were reading off the same sheet of music, drinking the same Kool-Ade and sharing the same bong . . . hey, this is good !

 It was something like the sophists Socrates confronted, you couldn't pin the sophists down, they THRIVED on ambiguity.  Socrates beleived on definitions, the truth, the logos.

Now the New Yorker can only say" Sorry your stuff is not quite right for us. "  . . .  By keeping the reasons  ambiguous and fuzzy and foggy and grey, there are more dark places to hide in the nooks and crannies, and easier to stay elusive. . . for taking responsibility . . . in other words: " Who's got the problem ? "  . . . Comprende ? Yah-h-h.