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.