Randy Z. Crawford Cartoonist

THEY SHOOT CARTOONIST DON'T THEY?

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The axe is falling right and left on editorial cartoonists.
The corporate decree comes down from on high(parent corporation)to cut the budget and short sighted publishers whack one of the local papers most valuable assets-their editorial cartoonist.
In my own case I was causing budget chaos.I would deliver my weekly batch of cartoons to the newspaper office where a gorgeous micro-mini skirt clad receptionist would lovingly caress them into her arms.She would wiggle them over to the editor for approval and once accepted after a few chuckles the receptionist would wiggle them over to the publisher who would look at them and gasp hoarsely"too controversial!!"roll his eyes back in his head and immediately pass out!

Smelling salts were rapidly administered.
The paper was having to buy a lot of smelling salts.In fact the were paying more for the smelling salts than they were my cartoons!
 
BUDGET OVERRUN!!!
 
on some occasions the publisher would hit his head on the way down to the floor(why the receptionist never caught him on the way down was a mystey-perhaps her mini skirt was too tight)resulting in bandages,peroxide,isopropyl alcohol,iodine,etc.
 
BUDGET OVERRUN!!!.
 
On a couple of occasions the publisher after perusing some of my really controversial polictical pen and ink panels actually went into cardiac arrest resulting in the utilization of a defebulator and Emergency Medical Teams.
 
BUDGET OVERRUN!!!!
 
Fortunately he survived.
A firing squad was formed for me in the papers parking lot.
I escaped underground(with the receptionist)to an independent publishing company at a secure undisclosed location.

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