Editorial Cartoons

My First career. Editorial cartoons. While attending high school, my Journalism teacher got me in contact with Paul Conrad, the Pulitzer prize winning cartoonist for the Los Angeles Times. I was hooked. I wanted the fame and glory of working for a major newspaper, commenting about the days events.  To this end, I entered school at California State University, Long Beach. They has a respectable art department AND a journalism department.

Little did I know, I had signed up to enter an industry that was already in decline, in a nation that was pulling towards conservatism at an alarming rate. I had some success getting work in the industry, but this was the era of Reagan, and even my mentor was being shunted aside for for a cartoonist who was VERY conservative. So, in 1991, when the economy took a downturn triggered by a financial meltdown in the Savings and Loan industry and a war in Iraq (see, we don’t learn from our mistakes) I jumped to a new industry, video games, working with a small startup company called Silicone and Synapse.

The following is just a very small sample of my output during this time. And yes, it was made with old tech; Paper, Pens and no “undo” key, once ink hits paper.