Wall Street Journal cartoon ( 9.13.13 ) - Roy Delgado

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This drawing appears in the OPINION PAGE

of yesterday's ( 9-13-13 ) Wall Street Journal

newspaper.  For what it's worth, one of my favorites, 

sold to them almost a year ago. My favorite type of 

gag cartoon is either a complete captionless

gag or a visual cartoon with little reading, like

the one shown here.

New Yorker cartoon ?  I think so . . . 

If Chas. Adaams would have done it,

I can see it as a full page in beautiful wash tones, but now that he's departed us, there are more than several New Yorker regulars that could have done it right !

I can see it by Mick Stevens, Booth, or even Roz Chast in her very original  style would have done great justice to this idea . . . 

But alas, I have to add this one in my ' over 21,000

New Yorker rejected cartoons'

I still can't understand it, maybe I never will,

but no one can ever say:

 "I DIDN'T TRY HARD ENOUGH ! "

I thank The New Yorker in a way, because although

I aimed for them, them rejecting me gave me all the success by selling the rejects to hundreds of major publications in the world !

I don't believe it would've happened

otherwise ! Man, What a ride !

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" Thank God . . . 

every morning when you get up . . . that you have something to do which must be done,

whether you like it or not.  Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed

in you a hundred virtues which the idle

will never know. "

- Charles Kingsley, 1819-1875

 ENGLISH WRITER, POET AND CLERGYMAN

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