18352 Cartoon of the Day

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" Anybody who knows everything should

be told a thing or two. "

Franklin P. Jones

16119 Cartoon of the Week - Roy Delgado

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" I always say to myself, what is the most important thing we can think about at this

extraordinary moment ? "

R. Buckminster Fuller 

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18344 Cartoon of the Day

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" The art of being wise is the art of

knowing what to overlook. "

William James 

Cartoon of the day - 18341 - Doctors

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" Never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions you have no respect. "

Annonymous

Kids cartoon 18339 - Roy Delgado

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" Everything should be made as simple as possible,

but not simpler. "

Albert Einstein

http://saturdayeveningpost.com/2011/06/29/art-literature/artists-illustrators/meetthecartoonist-roy-delgado.html

The Sat Eve Post just recently put up a website featuring some of their favorite cartoonists. Their  URL is on the title of this post.

 You may also find it by simply googling up meet-the- cartoonist roy delgado saturday evening post

( am still learning how to use this contraption , please pardon my clumsiness )

18322 Welfare cartoon - Roy Delgado

I love the ambiguity of words.  Socrates liked to pin down the Sophists with definitions and the Sophists liked to "dance around and be evasive" so you couldn't win an argument . . .  OR appeared that you couldn't win an argument . .  they actually thought that if you won an argument, you actually were right !

They were very persuasive and  were good at winning arguments and made money and taught the youth of Athens to go into the lucrative business of Sophistry.  Teach the lawyers how to win their case. 

Because these young people with bad educations grew up and went on to "run" the country, they were responsible for bad government institutions and ran the country into it's decline and were therefore responsible for losing the long war with Sparta, The Pelopannesian war.  It's amazing this practice of Sophistry continues to this day.  Some of my best friends are Sophists,  but don't know it.  I guess ignorance is bliss.

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" I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. "

George Burns

Guru cartoon ny687 - Roy Delgado

Business cartoon of the day - Roy Delgado

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" I'd like to live like a poor man - - - only with lots of money. "

Pablo Picasso

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" One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to

forgive everybody everything every night

before you go to bed. "

Annonymous

( Quoted by Ann Landers )

Whale Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado

One of my favorites.

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" A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. "

is one of my favorite sayings.  A lot there in that sentence.  Google it up, interesting comments and viewpoints.

As for me, having my own business for 26 years and hiring and firing a few people, I learned a lot on that phrase.  People who ALMOST knew how to operate a crane, but didn't know all of the safety precautions almost caused someone their life.

Nuf sed.

Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado 18298

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I love Steve Martin . . . here's one of his one-liners from a while back.

" I started a grease fire at McDonald's . . . threw a match in the cook's hair. "

Steve Martin 

Cartoon of the week - Roy Delgado

12907 Cartoon of the day - Roy Delgado

This cartoon was sold to Barron's a couple years ago . . . they used to send you a couple gratis copies when the cartoon was in print . . . but since the economy changed a few years ago, everybody tightened the belt and a lot of people lost their jobs and now the editors found out that legally they don't HAVE to send copies, so they stopped doing it, as did Cortlandt Forum and a a whole lot of others also stopped sending you the copies or tear sheets.

Welcome to the New World of Publishing. No more Mr. Nice Guy . . .   They do it, because they CAN DO IT.

Next thing, Mitch and Murray are sending down Blake, a real bastard from downtown to read us the riot act . . . .

First Prize, The Cadillac, 2nd Prize, a set of Steak Knives . .  3rd prize, we're fired. 

In case anyone out there has NOT seen the Glen Garry Glen Ross film about a pressure cooker real estate office in New York City, starring Jack Lemon, al Pacino and Alec Baldwin, see it immediately.

  It almost earned an Academy Award for Alec Baldwin, who plays a  real bastard sales manager named " Blake". (  One of the best films of all time for me. )  A Bastard with a capital "B". 

GUN CONTROL WORKS

Yes, gun control works, these despots proved it.  It works, it ALWAYS works . . NEVER it DOESN'T work, period.  It's a FACT.

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Tomorrow, back to cartooning, today, just a reminder, to VOTE in the presidential election.

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" There are more nut jobs than there are nuts."

Pat Burns

Wannabe india ink Drawer

Plum Loco Comic - 16009 Roy Delgado and Dr. Peter Plum

This drawing was executed by my doppelganger, Dr. Peter Plum from Birmingham in the U.K.

His style of drawing is amazingly similar to mine - - in fact, I can no longer tell the difference between his work and mine.  It is causing a delemma.  Anyway, as of lately, Dr. Plum has started submitting to The New Yorker as Mr. Delgado takes a breather from submitting under his real name to Eustace Tilley's rag..

18271 - New Yorker Cartoon ? Just Kidding. - Roy Delgado

New Yorker ?  You tell me. 

In the old days you might call this a WEAK gag . .  or maybe even CORNY . . .  NOW, you just call it gossamer ( That is, IF you've decided to publish it, and you are trying to explain it to some irate readers' mail ) . . .  . . flimsy, light, like the morning flimsy, tansparent cobwebs you see on the grass early in the morning ?  PLEASE. PLEASE.

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" There are none so blind as those who will not see. "

Unknown

( One of my favorites, applies to the 20% of the idealogues and zealots on BOTH sides of the political aisle . . . we ALL know some )

18264 - Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado

Unfortunately, I think a lot of people we know are headed this way. . . bring your sun-tan oil!

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" Within you is the kingdom

of serenity that you can create

all the prosperity

you could ever want. "

Dr, Wayne W. Dyer

Wisdom from Balthasar Gracian

" There is no need to show your ability before everyone. 

 Employ no more force than is necessary.  Let there be no unecessary expenditure either of knowledge or power. 

 The skilful falconer only flies enough birds to serve for the chase.  If there is too much display today there will be nothing to show tomorrow. 

 Always have some novelty wherewith to dazzle.  To show something fresh each day keeps expectation alive and conceals the limits of capacity. 

Aphorism #58

" The Art of Worldly Wisdom "
Balthasar Gracian
newsletter@balthasar.gracian.com

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Try this for the next 21 days ( That is how long it takes for a new habit to "take", (studies have shown ) . . .  

For a daily regimen, I suggest to go there ( To the art of worldly wisdom newsletter site ) early and get your daily "fix" first .

. . THEN, on to this blog, THEN wherever else you go, etc.,

Tomorrow, you do it again, the day AFTER tomorrow, same-O, same-O . . . get the pitcher ? . . for 21 days . . .

Comprende?  Capiche ?

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15548 - Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado

I like bigfoot stuff . . . antything that is ridiculous, but still plausible, you know, like our elected officials . . .

nuf sed.

Zen and a New Yorker cartoon

I did this cartoon back around 2007, AND had the nerve ( OR STUPIDITY, I don't know which ) to submit it to the keeper of the gate, Bob Mankoff, ( as he's been often referred to ). 

 Of course, it was rejected . . . ANYTHING I send him goes directly into the "NO" pile to return immediately with the standard light yellow rejection slip, back to the NY'er wannabe cartoonist. ( Over 19,000 cartoons, by my count have been rejected, funny ALL rejected for the SAME reason . . . " NOT QUITE RIGHT FOR US . . " No shit.

Maybe this time around, he may get up the nerve to throw it into the " YES " basket . . .

Ask any shrink, it is healthy to not take yourself too seriously . . . they will ALL say, something like " Take your WORK seriously, but DO NOT TAKE YOURSELF TOO SERIOUSLY.

Man, lighten up, these are ONLY chicken scratchings on pieces of paper . . mostly sent by people you'e never met and some probably who really ain't crazy to meet you either, anyway. 

After all, it's not that it is a matter of life and death . . . just ONE time, go look in the mirror and say loudly: " I AM AN ASSHOLE. " . . . I am going to die like everyone else, that is why, according to some brilliant Zen philosophers like Alan Watts are telling us that that is why we are all assholes . . . think about it . . .  What difference does it REALLY make ?

It's time to take my Lithium and see my therapist, gotta run . . .  you lucky bastards . . .   See you tomorrow, right here !

Peter Plum

Batman goes Plum Loco ! - Roy Delgado

One of my favorite super hero type cartoons that has yet to find a home . . . belongs in The Gnu Yoh-kuh . . . as they say around Times Square . . . Think I'll send it to Mister Mankoff next week . . . this COULD be the one, but after ofter 19,000 rejections I doubt it, . . .

Oh well . . .

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" Don't wait for a light to appear

at the end of the tunnel,

stride down there - - -

and light the bloody thing yourself. "

Sara Henderson, b.1936

AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK STATION MANAGER AND WRITER

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I love it !

- Cartoon of the week - Roy Delgado

I once had a guy apply for a job and I swear to God, he asked the very same questions, only he danced around the subjects trying not to show what he was really trying to ask without giving it away . . . anyway, I caught on, got the "gist" of where he was going and I told him he was in the final two to pick from and that I would call him on Friday.

When I called him, I told him he almost got the job, but I had to go with the other guy because he had a degree from Harvard, or Yale, or Cornell or some school like that . . . It always worked. 

Today, I feel guilty about the scam, but you get real creative trying not to hurt people's feelings.

If there IS such a thing as Karma, my goose is cooked.

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" Of all the liars in the world, sometimes

 the worst are your own fears. "

Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936

ENGLISH POET AND AUTHOR

New Sat Eve Post Cartoon - Roy Delgado

This drawing appears on page 66 in the Oct/Nov 2011 issue of Ben Franklin's Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post . . . A kind of different magazine than it was in the 50's . . . First off, it was in a larger format, as was its competitors, Colliers and Look.  It shrunk.

 Now, like even The New Yorker are starting to use more and more colour on their cartoon selections . . . reasons given are to attract the younger readers.  Back then, ALL the cartoons were done in blk. & wh. and " Ben Day " wash tones indicated by the artist with a light blue area, usually with a sable brush using transparent water color to show the printer where the artist wanted the light grey " wash " areas applied.  And in the old days, the printer would apply the grey wash on the plate, using a fine dot pattern somehow, which when printed, appeared a light grey.

This particular cartoon was submitted as a black and white and then coloured on request using my trusty Corel Paint ShopPro9 program.

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" Far away there in the sunshine

are my highest aspirations.

I may not reach them but I can look up

and see their beauty, believe in them.

Louisa May Alcott, 1832-1888

AMERICAN NOVELIST

18204 - Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado

I guess down deep inside, I'm really a lover of slapstick .  You can call it low-brow if it makes you feel better, but, but, I KNOW that anyone who looks at this cartoon will either break out into a giggle, break out into a loud belly laugh and to some, a definate  knee slapper.

Whether it's in good taste, it depends who the audience is . . . Reminds me of a chiropractor I once had . . .

Nuf sed.

Anyway, let's see what " HEF " thinks about it, it'll go out in the next batch to Playboy, next week . . I can at least TRY, right ?

It ought to be against the law to have as much fun as I'm having !

G'Day !

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Saturday Evening Post Cartoon - Roy Delgado

This drawing appears on page 42 in the current issue, ( Sept/Oct )  of TheSaturday Evening Post.

Amazing, this drawing was done back in 2003 . . . has been around the markets twice and finally hits pay dirt at the Post.

I did it in pencil and then finished it off with the PaintShopPro9 Program.  ( Which I could easily endorse)

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" All men know the use of the useful, but nobody
knows the use of the useless.

Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so that I can have a word with him ? "

- Chuang Tzu

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