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

Eli March 21, 2025 7 Comments

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:

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King Features Syndicate “Laff-A-Day”, November 29, 1967

Eli February 28, 2025 No Comments

This is another one of those gags that King Features Syndicate bought from me a long time ago — in the year 1967, to be exact. Of course, I had to do a finished drawing from my “rough”. KFS didn’t return my finished drawing or my rough and I didn’t make a copy of either of them. Nor do I have a tearsheet of the cartoon from the day that it was published. In my files, I found this older sketch of the gag, which may or may not be close to what my finished drawing looked like. If anybody has a copy of this “Laff-A-Day” printed cartoon from 1967, I’d love to see it.

UPDATE: Thanks to the spectacular research of Captioneer Mark Schaeffer, I now have a copy of this cartoon. I also found out that it was published on November 29, 1967. Here it is:

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McNaught Syndicate, 1978

Eli January 24, 2025 2 Comments

This is a cartoon that McNaught Syndicate bought from me sometime in 1978. McNaught editor Anne Rickey, writing directly on the drawing, instructed me to do a square finished drawing and to add a square box line all around it. McNaught would paste in my type-set caption below the box, and also add anything else that was required, such as the date of publication and copyright info.

I don’t have a copy of my finished drawing, nor a tearsheet of the printed cartoon, but I kept a copy of this.

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Dartnell, 1992

Eli August 10, 2024 3 Comments

Explanation: In 1992, when this cartoon was published by Dartnell, it seemed to me that anything that was advertised had the tagline “The Official ——— of the 1992 Olympics”. Nobody uses that tagline anymore. Maybe it was banned for legal reasons, or maybe advertisers realized that it didn’t have any effect on the overall sales of the item.

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