King Features “Laff-A-Day”, February 4, 1982
Eli
May 22, 2007
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CAPTION: “To leveraged buyouts? What kind of a toast do you call that?”
This is the first cartoon I sold to National Review. The "Cartoon Editor" in 1985 was Priscilla Buckley, sister of NR founder William Buckley, and she wrote me a nice note saying she "couldn't resist" this one. We had a very cordial relationship (by mail) until she retired in 1992, and my cartoons continued to appear in NR on an irregular basis until 1998. At about that time, NR reduced its cartoon usage to a bare minimum, which continues to this day. I saw the handwriting on the wall and just stopped submitting cartoons for consideration.
Kiwis were just starting to be imported around this time, and a salad wasn't a salad unless it was garnished with a few slices of that exotic fruit. But not everybody liked kiwi.
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