On May 6th, the first cartoon I have done for the Philadelphia Daily News weekend paper Philadelphia Sports Week
will appear. It's not available on line, so I will post a copy of the
weekly cartoon on this blog when it appears each Sunday. The editors
help come up with the concept, and then I (ahem..) take the ball and
run with it.
I
received a few ideas from the editors, and once the Editor In Chief,
Becky Batcha, gave the green light to go with this sketch, I had a lot
of fun drawing it. Becky and I go back all the way to our college days
at the Daily Orange at Syracuse University, and I wanted to make
as good an impression with this first cartoon for PSW as I did with the
first cartoon I drew back in 1981 for her DO editorial about martial law
in Poland. I hope that I (ahem..) hit a home run with this one, too...
I
was worried that after I submitted the final illustration on Thursday
at noon that the Phillies would go on an offensive tear for the next 3
games and cause the cartoon to look pretty lame; however, they managed
to hand the Washington Nationals the Friday night game and today rolled
over in a 7-1 loss. I can only hope the Nationals get a three-game sweep
of the Phils with a shutout on Sunday to keep this cartoon relevant.
After that, Philadelphia can go back to being a powerhouse NL East
contender again. It might make for good cartoon material this summer.
-Rich
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