Once again, many thanks to Captioneer Mark Schaeffer for finding this published cartoon from 1978, so that I can now add it to my archive.
This is another cartoon that King Features Syndicate bought, in 1977, and then asked me to do a finished drawing from my “rough”. I didn’t make a copy of the rough drawing that KFS bought, nor the finished drawing, and I do not have a tearsheet of the printed cartoon. All I know is that it was scheduled to be published in newspapers on December 20, 1977. The above drawing is an older version of the gag, which I picked up from my files, and the printed cartoon may or may not look like this. I haven’t given up hope of seeing the printed cartoon some day, and when that happens, I’ll update this post.
UPDATE: It didn’t take long for Captioneer Mark Schaeffer to come up with a copy of this published cartoon, and it wasn’t changed very much from the older drawing I had in my files. Many thanks, Mark. Here it is:
This is another gag I sold to King Features Syndicate for their “Laff-A-Day” panel. The only thing I know about it is that it was purchased in 1977 and was scheduled for printing on October 12th of that year. KFS never returned my finished drawing or my rough drawing and I didn’t make a copy of either of them. Nor do I have a tearsheet of the published cartoon.
The above drawing is an old version of the gag that I had in my files, and the published cartoon probably looked something like this. I would love to see a printed version of the cartoon, in the unlikely chance that anyone out there has an archive of very old KFS “Laff-A-Day” panels.
UPDATE: Here’s an image of the published cartoon, thanks to Captioneer Mark Schaeffer:
This is not the finished drawing of the cartoon as it appeared in print. It is an earlier version of the gag from my files. I sold the cartoon to King Features in November 1977, but I had to do a finished drawing. I don’t have a copy of that final drawing, nor do I have a tearsheet of the printed cartoon. All I know is that it was scheduled to be published in “Laff-A-Day” on February 10, 1978.
So if anyone happens to have a copy of it (ha ha!), I would certainly appreciate seeing it.
UPDATE: Thanks to the spectacular detective work by Captioneer Mark Schaeffer, who sent me a copy of this KFS cartoon that was published on February 10, 1978, I can now add it to my archive. Here it is. As you can see, there is no significant change in the layout of the drawing, but I shortened and revised the caption from my original sketch of the gag.
Many thanks, Mark, for sending this published cartoon and the others that you were able to find. I greatly enjoyed seeing them all, and will be adding them to the archive in the future!
This is a cartoon that McNaught Syndicate bought from me sometime in 1978. McNaught editor Anne Rickey, writing directly on the drawing, instructed me to do a square finished drawing and to add a square box line all around it. McNaught would paste in my type-set caption below the box, and also add anything else that was required, such as the date of publication and copyright info.
I don’t have a copy of my finished drawing, nor a tearsheet of the printed cartoon, but I kept a copy of this.
This is not the finished drawing of the cartoon as it appeared in print. It is an earlier drawing 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 had scheduled it to be published as a “Laff-A-Day” panel on November 15, 1977.
UPDATE on May 14, 2025: Thanks to the research done by Captioneer Mark Schaeffer, I now have a copy of this cartoon as it was published in 1977. Here it is:
Thanks to Captioneer Mark Schaeffer for retrieving this copy of this cartoon as it was published in 1978.
