Wrapped in Old Newspaper- Part 6

You may feel a pinch... of nostalgia from this old school spot illo from the short-lived Long Island Voice, the Village Voice's foray into Nassau County.

War on the Other

Of Course You Can

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Sharp-eyed old friends and fans might just recognize this.

Top o' the Food Chain, Ma!

Yankenstein's Monster

Dug up this somewhat Halloween-y cartoon from my old editorial cartooning days. This one never saw print. It was some kind of commentary on the public cost of the then-impending new Yankee Stadium.

Wrapped in Old Newspaper-Editorial Cartoons Part 2

Bossa Nassau Baby. Copyright 2001 Newsday. Used with permission

This decade-old piece, on the subject of the somewhat historic (locally, anyway) election of Democrat Thomas Suozzi to the office of the Nassau County Executive, was my second editorial cartoon for Newsday  a daily, rather than a free weekly newspaper. It was commissioned by editor (and Elvis fan) Valerie Kellogg, some of whose articles I had illustrated when she had written for the Voice. I came up with the title and the faux-movie soundtrack motif, but the majority of the parody song titles are hers. (I've been told that there was at least one inquiry from a reader who wanted to purchase the nonexistent album.)

It was also the first instance of my using a computer to letter a cartoon, and it shows! (The kerning! THE KERNING!)  Since I didn't have a scanner or even know how to use Photoshop back then, I printed the computer-generated text and graphic elements onto a piece of paper on which I drew the figures in colored pencil. It's a long way from there to the all-digital New Yorker entries I posted a few weeks back.

Wrapped in Old Newspaper-Editorial Cartoons Part 1

www.cbsnewyork.com

While this one appeared on the WCBS New York website rather than in a newspaper, I got the gig because of my prior newspaper work at the short-lived suburban edition of the Voice. It accompanied a 1999 article comparing the relative strengths and weaknesses of Hilary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani, both of whom were campaigning for one of New York's two seats in the Senate at the time.

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."- Lao Tzu

Seems appropriate to kick things off with this:

Say....That'd look good on a T-shirt...