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"Photo-Op: Comic Strip Classics Stamps/Boca Raton, FL" #2
Continuing my latest 'sweeps month' (November, 2015) I have another 'photo-op' (for "Throwback Thursday") to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the 'first day of issue' for the "Comic Strip Classics" postage stamps and the 100th anniversary of the formation of King Features Syndicate...
The October 1, 1995 ceremony - held in between the Boca Raton, Florida post office and the site of IMCA (the International Museum of Cartoon Art), under a tent - had a number of luminaries in attendance. Most notably, to help celebrate the occasion, was the museum's founder (and the cartoonist/creator of "Beetle Bailey"), Mort Walker (right, in red sweater).
Of course, I got to meet Mr. Walker many months ago, when I was a 'volunteer worker' in a makeshift gift shop next to the construction site of IMCA. In fact, I had my picture taken with him at another ceremony with fellow IMCA employees and 'volunteer workers'. You can check out that 'photo-op' at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2265071/
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The October 1, 1995 ceremony - held in between the Boca Raton, Florida post office and the site of IMCA (the International Museum of Cartoon Art), under a tent - had a number of luminaries in attendance. Most notably, to help celebrate the occasion, was the museum's founder (and the cartoonist/creator of "Beetle Bailey"), Mort Walker (right, in red sweater).
Of course, I got to meet Mr. Walker many months ago, when I was a 'volunteer worker' in a makeshift gift shop next to the construction site of IMCA. In fact, I had my picture taken with him at another ceremony with fellow IMCA employees and 'volunteer workers'. You can check out that 'photo-op' at http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2265071/
Comic strip titles © their respective syndicates and distributors
Category Photography / Human
Species Human
Size 950 x 799px
File Size 208.8 kB
Good ol' Mort Walker....when Charles Schulz was this newbee cartoonist from St. Paul Minnesota and wanted to join the National Cartoonists Society, the old guard (led by "The Little King" artist Otto Soglow) at the NCS hemmed and hawed and stalled Schulz's entry into the Society. Walker fought for Schulz's inclusion.
Soglow: "You can't propose him...this is not a social club."
Walker fired back: "If he makes his living drawing comic strips, then he should be a member."
The NCS took Schulz in as a member...reluctantly. Schulz won the Reuben Award (for the annual Best Comic Strip artist voted by his peers in the society) from the NCS twice in 1955 and 1964, the first repeat winner. Walker won in 1953.
Mort Walker said it best about his fellow comic strip creators: "While we are competitors, we are all friends...we enjoy each other's company and respect each other's work."
Soglow: "You can't propose him...this is not a social club."
Walker fired back: "If he makes his living drawing comic strips, then he should be a member."
The NCS took Schulz in as a member...reluctantly. Schulz won the Reuben Award (for the annual Best Comic Strip artist voted by his peers in the society) from the NCS twice in 1955 and 1964, the first repeat winner. Walker won in 1953.
Mort Walker said it best about his fellow comic strip creators: "While we are competitors, we are all friends...we enjoy each other's company and respect each other's work."
Wonderful ancedote, artytoons!
The greatest moment of my life was meeting some of the members of the National Cartoonists Society, when they came down to Boca Raton (in May, 2005) to attend their annual convention, and show their respective support to Mort Walker, as the International Museum of Cartoon Art was still under construction.
Among the cartoonists I'd met were Bill ("The Family Circus"[i]) Keane, Roy ([i]"Wordless Workshop") Doty, Patrick ("Mutts") McDonnell, Jim ("Garfield") Davis, and Jeff ("Shoe"/"Pluggers") MacNelly. (You can check out some of the sketches and photos from a few NCS members in my 'Scraps' section.)
Presently, I have 'friended' a number of other cartoonists in Facebook, including Graham ("Sunshine State") Nolan, Mark ("Off The Mark") Parisi, and Jill (Scary Godmother) Thompson...
See you in the 'funny pages'!
The greatest moment of my life was meeting some of the members of the National Cartoonists Society, when they came down to Boca Raton (in May, 2005) to attend their annual convention, and show their respective support to Mort Walker, as the International Museum of Cartoon Art was still under construction.
Among the cartoonists I'd met were Bill ("The Family Circus"[i]) Keane, Roy ([i]"Wordless Workshop") Doty, Patrick ("Mutts") McDonnell, Jim ("Garfield") Davis, and Jeff ("Shoe"/"Pluggers") MacNelly. (You can check out some of the sketches and photos from a few NCS members in my 'Scraps' section.)
Presently, I have 'friended' a number of other cartoonists in Facebook, including Graham ("Sunshine State") Nolan, Mark ("Off The Mark") Parisi, and Jill (Scary Godmother) Thompson...
See you in the 'funny pages'!
Walker made the later statement about cartoonists being friends for the most part after when Bill Watterston made a college speech decrying "selling out" comic strip characters for advertising (with Walker in the audience), and then quitting "Calvin and Hobbes", and becoming a recluse and refusing contact with anyone in the comic strip field.
Walker extended an olive branch to Watterston if he wants to discuss things that "sure, we can always have a drink together and talk." Watterston never responded.
Walker extended an olive branch to Watterston if he wants to discuss things that "sure, we can always have a drink together and talk." Watterston never responded.
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