| A Cartoonist Goes Hollywood | |
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| Everything was lovely... before the cartoonists showed up.
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This is one of those random "oh what the heck" photos. Lee Salem (Universal Press Syndicate) is donning the cool shades in the foreground. Frank Pauer is looking away from me and the camera (typical) to Lee's left. Bil Keane ("Family Circus") is in the blue shirt behind Lee's right. This is what it's like when you end up in the background
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Bill LaRocque and his balloons. That's all I got on that one. |
Cathy's Reuben. This is as close as I'll ever get... which is why I licked it. |
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I managed to overpower the aforementioned security guard in Cathy's studio with a donut and bottle of Perrier. (In case you're wondering how I got so close
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Cathy actually set up a step-by-step production line showing how she creates her strip. This is the last step and it reads as follows: "Step 7: Add Zipatone--yes, still by hand. Last cartoonist on the planet who still uses it."
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Bernita Whiting, Don Peoples and Jim Whiting hobnobbing in Cathy's kitchen (which thwarted my pictorial essay on the contents of Cathy's refrigerator.)
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Keith Robinson and I engaged in a totally spontaneous and unrehearsed conversation with the adorable June "Where's the Mini-Bar" Patterson. (I stole
this from Keith, too. Cool, huh?) |
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Cathy and I share a moment just seconds before her guards dragged me off for the mandatory cavity search (an NCS tradition since 1996 which, oddly enough, is the year I joined...). Thank you, Cathy, for a marvelous time! |
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