King Features Syndicate “Laff-A-Day”, October 12, 1977
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: