Monday, October 14, 2024

This Week's Sneak Peek

 I tasked myself with another outdoor setting at night this week:

That works really well in grayscale; I know of just one publication that prints my cartoons that way. It poses a challenge in colorizing the cartoon, as the Moody Blues said:

Cold-hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colors from our sight
Red is gray, and yellow white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion

I learned this weekend of the death of Jerry Fearing, 94, editorial cartoonist for the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, and the papers that merged into it, from about 1957 to 1994. In his memory, here is the cartoon he drew after the death of Senator Hubert Humphrey in 1978:


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