Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado - 18061

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  " Our beliefs are the invisible ingredients
in all our activities. "

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
PSYCHOLOGIST, PHILOSOPHER, AUTHOR

Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado 18048

In trying to push the envelope, you can occasionally get into trouble because everyone sees it differently . . . what is racist to one would just be tolerent to others . . .the second would say, ' What's the big deal ? 'there is a thin line however . . . and usually the two never meet in agreement . . . anyway, I think it's funny, and I can't see any harm ( But who really knows, maybe I'm a closet racist and don't know it ? )

Lighten up, fer Crysakes!

You only go around once, but if you do it right, once is enough.

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" When you judge others,

you don't define them,

you define yourself. "

Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D.

Pschologist, Philosopher, Author

Cartoon of the week - Roy Delgado -

You can't help but wonder if the guys in the middle east look at women in the same way as us in the west . .  some guys here are "leg-men' . . . others " breast-men" . . and still others " buttocks-men'". . .  . over there, I guess you're stuck with ankles, toes . . and YES, EYES ! 

I'm sure the EYES gotta be the most attractive thing to get a hold of your attention . . I was in the middle east once and I saw a plump woman in a burka with beautiful eyes . . . as she walked by I noticed a wiggle to her gait . . . man, it looked two kids wrestling under a blanket !

I said to myself, I'm outta here !  ( Before I get in trouble )

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Death is a very embarrassing event to the ego.

Cartoon of the week - Roy Delgado 17932

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" We are our form and formlessness. 

we are both visible and invisible,

and we need to honor our

totality, not just what we

can see and touch. "

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer, Ph.D.

PSYCHOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER

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Cartoon of the week - Roy Delgado

There's nothing like nepotism at work, I'm sure most of us have been victims of the crime . . . or have seen partisanship displaying its ugly head at work . . . eventually the great day comes when the last relative goes off to into the sunset . . .

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" A real friend

is one who walks in

when the rest of the world

walks out. "

Walter Winchell, 1879-1972

AMERICAN JOURNALIST

18029 Cartoon of the month

A timely cartoon for these times we are living in . . . look, I've got nothing against gays, some of my best friends are gay . . . my FATHER was gay !

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" If there were nothing wrong in this world,

there wouldn't be anything for us to do. "

George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950

IRISH DRAMATIST, ESSAYIST AND CRITIC

Buljert the bulldog

Sample of my dog daily panel, Buljert.

Wisdom from Balthasar Gracian

From Balthasar's  " The Art of Worldly Wisdom " 

" Where the one is fickle the other is enduring.  The first for life, the second afterwards; the one against envy, the other against oblivion.  Fortune is desired, at times assisted: fame is earned.  The desire for fame springs from man's best part.  It was and is the sister of the giants; it always goes to extremes - - horrible monsters or brilliant prodigies. "

( This is Aphorism #10 Fortune and Fame )


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I just recently stumbled upon this gifted, holy, humble visionary, ( I call him ) . . . . his site has an aphorism everyday . . . although some are a little lengthy, some are home runs . . . I highly recommend the site for a quick shot of energy and humbleness first thing in the morning . . a good way to start your day . . . It's really great to be alive !

As Hugh Prather would say:  " It's really safe to be happy now. "

( Gee, I'm glad he reminded us ! )

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18017 cartoon of the month - Roy Delgado

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" If you are not getting

as much life as you want to,

then examine the state

of your enthusiasm. "

Norman Vincent Peale, 1898-1993

AMERICAN WRITER AND HUMANIST

The New Yorker - satire cover

This is a New Yorker cover that you will never see because it just ain't right. It doesn't make any sense ( in some people's mind ) Anyway, you're lookin' at it right here.

Is it politically correct or incorrect ? . . . I thought that since now ( so they tell me ) down is up and up is down and bad is good and the middle inside out . . . now you could publish something like this . . .

If it feels good, do it, they used to say . . . back in the 60's .

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" Make the most of the best

and the least of the worst. "

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894

SCOTTISH WRITER AND POET 

Leatherneck Laffs - Roy Delgado

This drawing appears on page 26 of the August issue of Leatherneck, The Magazine of the Marines -

Also featured on the same page are some fine cartoons by veteran cartoonists, Orehek, Chalk and Kilgore . . . sounds like a law firm, " Orehek, Chalk and Kilgore " . . . a darn good law firm . .

It is ingrained in you in the Marine Corps that your weapon is your best friend . . . unfortunately, this mutt's had his feelings hurt . . 

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" The great essentials to happiness in this life

are something to do, something to love and

something to hope for. "

Joseph Addison, 1672-1719

ENGLISH ESSAYIST

Barry Blitt New Yorker cover - July 25, 2011

On the cover  of the New Yorker magazine ( which I can't show here ) I just received today has a drawing of two lesbians holding hands in wedding gowns walking over a bridge leading into New York City probably on their way to get officially married now that it is legal to do so in the Big Apple . . .  two same-sex couples to wed, finally.  The drawing on the cover is smartly executed, sophisticated and perfect at this time . . . and as usual, a nice rendering by the regular cover artist Barry Blitt . . looks like pen and ink and water color in a very loose and free style.  I like Barry's work.

This particular cartoon of mine shown here would've been a perfect addition inside, especially in this particular issue . . . it IS in good taste and I think it's funny . . . I think I'll send it in the next batch . . . sooner or later, the staff at the New Yorker will be so excited that they will no longer be able to stiff my material any more . . . ask anyone, this cartoon belongs in the magazine.  Go ahead, ask anyone ! 

Someone take my bluff.  What possible reason could they say . . . besides something like:  " Sorry, your stuff is not quite right for The New Yorker, blah, blah, etc. "  . . .   What are you, nuts ? 

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" Life affords no higher pleasure than that

of surmounting difficulties, passing from one

step of success to another, forming new wishes

and seeing them gratified. "

Dr, Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784

ENGISH LEXIOGRAPHER, AND ESSAYIST

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I never thought it would this much of a high to get rejected and rejected and rejected and rejected . . . from The New Yorker . . . You wait, I'llk show the bastards. I've PAID my dues . . . I'm pissed off and I'm not gonna take it any more . . . I feel like that guy in the TV commercial   . . . " IT'S MY MONEY AND I WANT IT NOW ! "

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Satire, Gag ReCap Sipress, NYer Cartoonist

If you notice, the drawing is in faux-Mankoff style and signed in a Mankoff style signature: " Delgado "

 Yes, Actually you CAN draw like Cypress . . er-r-r Sipress . . that is IF, IF you happen to break your popsicle stick J-U-S-T right ! . . .  ( before dipping it into the india ink . . . )

You can't draw LIKE Cyprus, but you CAN,  draw IN Cyprus, they have a growing art colony there, it's actually The REPUBLIC OF CYPRUS . . . a EurAsian island in the  eastern Mediterranean, east of Greece, south of Turkey and west of Syria . . .

Now CYPRESS is a totally different thing . . it's actually ITALIAN CYPRESS you hear so much about, a great evergreen shrub popular with landscapers . .  

Actually, seriously, SIPRESS is a New Yorker cartoonist who "fits" the mold of a New Yorker cartoonist . . . unique, original, wacky ( to me ), and generally  with great gags . . . and to the unsophisticated he

APPEARS to look like he has no drawing  talent, I said he APPEARS to have no drawing talent . . . .  BUT, remember, things are not always as they appear to be . . .  this is actually the source of philosophy . . . that things are not always as they appear to be . . .

I once hired a plumber to do some cabinetwork in my house . . . didn't work out . . . 

 I envy Sipress . . . the writing is so great that the drawing evidentally doesn't matter . . . so they quickly tell you . . . BUT, BUT, BUT if this is true, WHY, WHY, WHY did such great well written successful iconic comic legends like Li'l Abner, Superman, Doonesbury, Boondocks and even The Simpsons  . . . go on to VASTLY IMPROVE the finish product by hiring "BETTER" artists once it is found to be a "HOT"product that is in demand . . . . We all know why . . .  it is just difficult, apparently, for some egos to admit it.  It  . . . and there are still some that will not admit IT, they actually really believe that the drawing does not matter . . . oh, really  . . . What are you, nuts ?

There are none so blind than those that will not see.

To thine own self, be true.

Nuf sed.

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" I cannot give you the formula for success,

but I can give you the formula for failure - - -

which is: try to please everybody. "

Herbert Bayard Swope, 1882-1958

AMERICAN NEWSPAPER EDITOR

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Gotta say, ole Herbie had a point . . . although it is natural to want to please people, and there is nothing wrong with that, it only becomes your problem when you become OVERLY CONCRNED when you cannot please someone . . . .

Roy Delgado

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" You must understand the whole of life, not just

one little part of it.  that is why you must read,

that is why you must look at the skies, that is why

you must sing and dance, and write poems, and suffer;

and understand, for all that is life. "

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1865-1986

INDIAN THEOSOPHIST

The GAG RECAP has ceased publication after the recent death of Bill Keough, it's publisher and editor.  He did a great job with it and we all miss his wit.

17549 Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado

This particular gag reminds me of a gem which was bought by Guccione . . . The guy, instead, is saying: " He reminds me of the son I never had.  It's the reason I had a vasectomy. "

I often thought the reason he bought it was because of the vitriol between one of his sons and him, who were not on speaking terms, and maybe, subconsciously it was a dig at the situation . . . I shoulda been a shrink, always trying to second-guess the world.

It's a lot of fun, but can land you in hot water too . . .

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 Those who dream by day

are cognizant of many things

which those

who dream only

by night. "

Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849

AMERICAN POET AND WRITER

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Better write this one down . . .

Cartoon of the week - Roy Delgado

This is the second tracing . . . I usually do three to get the finished version . . but actually, sometimes there is a freshness in the quick unfinished drawing that 'looks' good as is . . . so . . . I'll probably let this one slide . . . I'm leaning towards doing them ALL this way . . just let it happen and see what evolves , ... it is what it is . . . anyhow, who's keeping score of all this ?

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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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Man, what an attitude !

cartoon of the hour

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" Most people are about as happy as

they make up their minds to be. "

Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado

I love business cartoons . . having worked in my own company for 26 years, it was business every day . . . meeting with my sign shop customers, my employees, hiring, firing, meetings with architects, city planners, committees, bureaucracies in obtaining permits . . . beggars in the street, all happening in the metropolitan Washington, D.C. area  . . . I loved every minute of it . . . in fact, I miss it in many ways . . .  

However, living on top of this mountain in wild and winderful West Virginia has its own rewards, the quietness, solitude, a few birds chirping in the morning proudly showing you a new tune, a couple or five or sometimes 12 deer quietly tip toeing across your front yard . . . this place, since 2001, when I sold my business and retired is really almost like a writer's or painter's, or for that matter, a cartoonist's  retreat . . . where one finds creative juices flowing early in the morning and lasts usually for a twelve hour period at least and then your body beckons for rest and nourishment . . . during this period, maybe a little Schubert, Chopin or Dave Brubeck or Coltrane softly in the background, maybe a little Jack Daniels old No. 7 somewhere in the mix . . . it doesn't get any better than this . . . today, gold hits over 1600 per oz., and this time you were wise . . .

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" One of the pleasantest things

in the world is going on a journey;

but I like to go by myself. "

William Hazlitt, 1778-1830

BRITISH ESSAYIST

Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado - 17982

I always enjoy creating kid's and family ideas for cartoons . . . having had three kids  and by observing them every day, it is amazing what is right in front of you . . . like a lot of answers to our problems . . . most of the time the answers are not far away, in fact, many times you just have to look at the man in the mirror, as the late Michael Jackson used to say . . .

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" There are two ways to live your life.  One is though nothing is a miracle.  The other is though everything is a miracle. "

Albert Einstein, 1879-1955
GERMAN -BORN AMERICAN PHYSICIST

Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado 12940a

I like to to experiment from time to time by tweaking the final rendering in ink . . . here in a contemporary style you see quite a bit showing up everywhere . . . using a brush, you can really get a variation of line with very little ease . . .

In the TV cartoon series, " Dexter", this guy has mastered the technique, probably one of the more influential of the group exploiting this "new" style . . . I kinda like it . . . I notice Dexter is up for a Grammy . . .

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" I can't wait for success, so I went ahead without it. "

- JONATHAN WINTERS

Cartoon of the Day - Roy Delgado

This cartoon belongs in The New Yorker . . . ask anybody . . .  ( Except Bob Mankoff, the keeper of the gate . . . and probably Pat Byrnes because he said I will NEVER appear in The New Yorker ) . . . How does he KNOW that ? 

Emilio Sgueglio ( Captain Marvel ), Helene Parsons, Roy Delgado/ Bunny Hoest's Cartoonists Bash- 2011

Lower left is Emilio Sgueglio, who drew the famed golden age super hero Captain Marvel comic character . . . one of my favorites because all us kids in the neighborhood liked him because he was more realistic in many ways . . .

Behind him is gagwriter extraordinaire, Helene Parsons . . .  and then yours truly with my arm on Emilio's shoulder . . . and the handle of Emilio's wheelchair poking me in the heart. ( I felt no pain actually as the first double Jack Daniels Old No. 7 Sour mash Tennessee whiskey had begun to do its work . . .

It felt great to be around the many legends in the gathering . . . I believe in osmosis and every time I attend one of these, I feel better and when I get back home behind the ole drawing board, I know I'm a better cartoonist . . . it shows . . . and I believe it . . . and you gotta be careful what you believe, right ?

Here's a quickie pencil sketch Emilio drew in my trusty sketchbook I carry around for moments just like this . . .  priceless . . .

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" The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. "

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT, 1869-1959
AMERICAN ARCHITECT

Don Orehek, Helene Parsons, Roy Delgado

This pic has Don Orehek, veteran cartoonist whose cartoons  have appeared in practically every major magazine and is a longtime regular in the Playboy stable of favorite  cartoonists.

Next to him is Helene Parsons, gagwriter extraordinaire  whose material as a ghostwriter for many household name cartoonists has landed her in practically every major publication.  Having worked in the advertising business most of her life writing copy and now in advertising sales you can appreciate the nexus in creativity between creative writing, sales and a positive outlook which are necessary in this business to succeed.

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" If you aspire to the highest place,

it is no disgrace to stop at the second

or even the third place. "

Cicero, 106-43 BC

ROMAN ORATOR, STATESMAN AND ESSAYIST

Girlie gag - Roy Delgado

This is about as far as any of the old

" girlie magazines " would go as far as

pushing the envelope goes . . .

mild compared to today's standards.

In fact, maybe even this one would have

been turned down . . . back in the

"good ole days " when sex was

a dirty word.

Satire - New Yorker cover art

Here is a cover of the New Yorker magazine which you will most probably never see published . . . . but you never know . . .  You'll probably never see it, but I think if they really had a sense of humor, they would publish it !

But, what the hell do I know ? . . .  if I'm so smart, why ain't I rich ?

I guarantee, it would fly off the newsstand.  A real talking point . . . especially the comedians . . .  I can see it now on all the talk shows . . " Man, did you see the cover of The New Yorker ? " . . . , On Letterman . . . Even Hannity on the other side would talk about it, maybe O'Reilly . . . .

Push the envelope, New Yorker, laugh at yourselves, don't take yourself so seriously, lighten up . . . we're all weirdos in someone else's eyes . . . .

Take Chicago, just by itself . . . Blagojevich, Tony Rezko, Jeremiah Wright, Father Ph-ph-f - f-Pfleger, the new poddy-mouth *%#@ mayor, Billy Ayers and his wife, pencil doodler P.Byrnes ( Sorry, no first name or middle initial ), ALL main street people you'd love to invite to your next barbeque, right ?

You could do this with any city, sure, but today, m'man, it's your turn in the barrel.

It's only a magazine . . .

many times mis-directed . . .

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" If people knew how hard I work to gain my mastery,

it would not seem so wonderful at all. "

MICHAELANGELO 1475-1564

ITALIAN PAINTER AND SCULPTOR

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" Pencils are for doodlers, real men use home-made india ink or home-made oil paints. "

Michael Angelo Schwartz-Lipschitz

b. 1979

STAND-UP COMIC FROM YONKERS

1st report from Bunny's Bash, V.Gene Meyers and Tom Stemmle and Roy Delgado

This is the first report from " Bunny's Bash ", as it is commonly referred to . . . is an annual get-together of cartoonists . . . a whole lot of them from the Long Island area . . . the Bunny thing I understand evolved from a monthly meeting called " The Berndt Toast Gang " which meets or met once a month in some restaurant and eventually came to this great event.

I'd previously gone to a couple with Bob Weber Sr. and Gill Fox back a few years ago.

Didn't get to meet as many as I wanted to, but still had a great time with great libations and good food.

A group picture was taken and I will post it and others as soon as I get organized.

V. Gene Meyers is a veteran cartoonist with sales to many major publications and has been a Playboy regular for a long time.

Tom Stemmle is Chairman of The N.J. Chapter of The National Cartoonist's Society

It's always enjoyable to meet other cartoonists.

Lenny Herman / Scott Taber - Magazine Cartoonists

These two guys were two of my favorite cartoonists . . . you saw their work everywhere . . . I wrote to both of them in the early seventies and begged for an original and both were kind to send me what you see here.

The jury gag sold and appeared in  ADVENTURE MAG., one of the many men's magazines proliferating at the time . . .HOWEVER, many of the magazines had just begun to disappear about this time also . . .

There is always something strange that happens when you hold an original piece of art in your hands and know that the artist too held it in his hand and looked at it as you just did, and examined it and scrutinized it.   

I have always found it extremely helpful and useful in studying the craft in this way whenever possible.

The Scott Taber cartoon shows his simple style but is deceptive in its simplicity . . . harder to do than it looks, as we all found out in our learning process.

I clearly remember my first cartoon instructor, Billy Hon, putting it so eloquently and simple:  " Before you take a line out, you have to know where it belongs. "

It gave me more reason to understand and appreciate someone like Charles Shulz.

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" It is one of the most beautiful compensations

of this life that no man can sincerely try

to help another without helping himself. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

AMERICAN ESSAYIST AND PHILOSOPHER

17942 Cartoon of the day - Roy Delgado

It has been said that the PUN is the lowest form of humor.  Although this may be true, you still see the pun all over the place from such alleged sophisticated  magazines like The New Yorker on down to the minor publications . . . it is my opinion that it all comes down on HOW the gag is staged and delivered . . . it's dicey at it's best . . . I have mixed emotions on puns . . . you actually can't live without them, and I guess I'm still a sucker for the pun.

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"All we are is what we think about. "

Buddha

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The strangest secret is that we become

what we think about all day long,

most of the time. "

Earl Nightengale

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Thanksgiving cartoon - Roy Delgado

In the magazine cartoon biz, you gotta think ahead . . . like right now, you gotta rush off all your upcoming holiday stuff out to the editors . . . and every month there's always something new coming up to think about . .  . even though it's sometimes hard to think about snow in 90 degree weather . . . who says life is boring ! ?

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" The greatest use of life is to spend it

for something that will outlast it. "

William James, 1842-1910

AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGIST AND PHILOSOPHER

Saturday Evening Post Cartoons - Roy Delgado

These three cartoons of mine appear in the July/August issue of the Saturday Evening Post on sale at the

newsstand right now.

The old guy reading the warning label on the pills drawing appears on page 74.

The drawing with the two convicts appeared on page 22.

  . . . and the ole rock and roll guy cartoon appeared on page 66.

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15343 - Cartoon of the Day

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" Dream what you dare to dream.

Go where you want to go.

Be what you want to be. "

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