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

Eli April 25, 2025 No Comments

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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King Features Syndicate “Laff-A-Day”, February 10, 1978

Eli February 21, 2025 No Comments

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!

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