The National Law Journal, December 4, 2000
Eli
August 19, 2006
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CAPTION: “I sentence you to perform 200 hours of small, unpleasant tasks.”
More than a year after this cartoon appeared in The National Law Journal, I was surprised to see the identical gag in The New Yorker. It was in the October 13, 1997 issue and drawn by a famous New Yorker cartoonist — same restaurant setting, exactly the same caption. Great minds thinking alike, I guess.
Of course, Sonny Bono was still alive when this was printed in 1989, but I'm sure their marital problems were public knowledge; if not, this gag would not have made sense.
CAPTION: “I'd also like to remind you that when they rounded up the usual suspects, my client was not even one of those rounded up.”
The Florida Bar News and Florida Bar Journal are two relatively low-paying cartoon venues, but I needed a place for all my National Law Journal rejects, and they fit the bill. Both of them bought a great number of my cartoons over the years, at least 125.
Another National Law Journal cartoon — a nice combination of law and literature, I thought.
This is the first cartoon I sold to The National Law Journal. They publish one cartoon in each weekly issue, and they've used more than fifty of mine to date.
Another of many cartoons I've done for The National Law Journal (the first one was published ten years earlier, in 1988). I particularly like this one because R.J.Nagle is my son-in-law — but he's not a lawyer.
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