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