Category: Banks

King Features Syndicate “Laff-A-Day”, December 20, 1977

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:

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Advertising Age, September 12, 1983

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Explanation: The word “collateral” has a special meaning in the advertising agency world. To quote from a source on Google: “Collateral is the collection of media used to support sales of a product or service. It differs from advertising in that it is used later in the sales cycle. Common examples include: sales brochures and other printed product information, posters and signs, visual aids in sales presentations, web content, sales scripts and demonstration scripts.”

So this adman, or as we would call him today, Madman, is looking for a loan and he has brought along his “collateral”. Yes, I agree it's an awful pun, but I thought it worked as a gag, and apparently so did the editors at Advertising Age back in 1983.

End of Lesson Number 1 in today's Advertising 101 class.

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Foreword

Welcome to the Eli Stein Cartoon archive. To begin, read my introduction and personal notes, and then please look at the cartoons, which are categorized by either decade, publication name or topic. I’ve included some personal comments, memories and photos below many of the cartoons. I’ll be adding cartoons, memories and photos ad infinitum. Remember, your comments are appreciated (just click on the “comment” link at the bottom of each post).
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