Caption: “Now let’s see, where did we leave off yesterday?”
Sorry about the bad image. I’ll be working on getting a better scan for this.
UPDATE: This is a better image, I think.
This is another one of those gags that King Features Syndicate bought from me a long time ago — in the year 1967, to be exact. Of course, I had to do a finished drawing from my “rough”. KFS didn’t return my finished drawing or my rough and I didn’t make a copy of either of them. Nor do I have a tearsheet of the cartoon from the day that it was published. In my files, I found this older sketch of the gag, which may or may not be close to what my finished drawing looked like. If anybody has a copy of this “Laff-A-Day” printed cartoon from 1967, I’d love to see it.
UPDATE: Thanks to the spectacular research of Captioneer Mark Schaeffer, I now have a copy of this cartoon. I also found out that it was published on November 29, 1967. Here it is:
This is not the finished drawing of the cartoon as it appeared in print. It is an earlier version from my files. I don’t have a copy of the final drawing, nor do I have a tearsheet of the printed cartoon. But I do know that King Features Syndicate published it as a “Laff-A-Day” panel sometime in 1967.
I never could find out the exact day that this panel from King Features Syndicate’s “Laff-A-Day” was printed, but it was sometime in 1968.
What can I say here? The gag was as old as the hills, even in 1967, and the newsprint color registration was horrendous, but this is an archive of my cartoons and, what the heck, “we all have to start somewhere”.
By the way, thirty years later I sold another version of this gag, with just four sales charts up on the wall. Which charts did I eliminate, and which did I change? You'll just have to wait and see.
In case you can't recognize it, that's a basketball the daughter is throwing down. This cartoon clip is from a 1967 newspaper and their color printing was badly out of register. I corrected it a little in Photoshop, but then gave it up as a lost cause.
OK, President Obama, what are you waiting for? Let's get people like this covered, so their medical charts won't have to go down so dramatically. (This was printed back in 1967, but I guess things haven't changed that much).
In my humble opinion, not too shabby for a gag and drawing that's almost 42 years old.
