One detail that I wanted to mention about the Les Aspin cartoon in Saturday’s post here was that it demonstrated how much bigger the actual drawing of my cartoons were than they appeared in print.
I couldn’t assume that the average reader of the Parkside Ranger would remember a cartoon I had drawn three or four months earlier, so I included that cartoon as part of the newer one. Not having the benefit of Photoshop in 1985, I traced a printed copy of the cartoon in the inset (somewhat challenging through Bristol board, although I might have still had a light board at the time).
Those cartoon originals are too big to fit on my current scanner — I have had to draw smaller since needing to email scans to Q Syndicate. According to the compositor's notes on the reverse of the Ranger cartoons, they were reduced to 50% for print. Typically, my recent cartoons are a little less than a foot wide when I draw them.
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