Moon Quiver

HERE WE SEE the second satire magazine gag I got accepted for publication this past March [2016]: I tried further afield than the shores of Britain as most of the space for still or 'spot' cartoons in the satirical publications in UK mags is pitifully cramped---I crave more space to breathe!

The overseas magazines still hark back to traditional graphics that lavished better overall production values, and so I approached the look of these works with more of a NEW YORKER ambience.

ABOUT THIS CARTOON:

Unlike a lot of my modern drawings---many of which are assembled from separate sheets of paper-------this example  here was 'all in a oner' with only minimal tweaking required . namely the figures in the bed were shrank down a fair bit to make the bedstead look more imposing and impressive. Lots of blurring added throughout of course, for a deliberately muted 'depth-of-field' look. This was all done on a single sheet of used A4 paper---cheap parchment matters not a jot in the long run, and the Editors buying this stuff simply do not care. ......in fact, they care even less in these compu-graphic days than they did back in the 'send-stuff-in-on-paper' days. The origins of cartoons---when seen on a computer monitor---are literally undetectable, even to seasoned experts and Editors.

One of the top BEANO artists, Ron Spencer of LITTLE PLUM and BABY-FACE FINLAYSON  fame usually drew on cheap cartridge paper: the finished results always looked great.