Don has sold a LOT of cartoons in his career. Each numbered cartoon or illustration on the left side of this Blog is from a DIFFERENT magazine, newspaper, etc. Let's see if we can find out the total number of publications (places) where Don's work has appeared . . . . . (An unnumbered posting is a duplicate publication.)

53. American Weekly, July 11, 1965


There were more Sunday supplements in the 1960s than most people remember. These cartoons were from American Weekly, a Hearst publication.
From 1967 to 1980, Don exhibited and sold cartoons, caricatures and seascapes in the Greenwich Village Art Show*. In those days the show was held three weekends before, during and after Memorial Day and Labor Day, so six weekends (about 14 days) total.
Over the years, the cartoons that sold the best were about lawyers and dentists. Don redrew and water colored the dental cartoon shown here a few times. Whenever one sold, he would draw another one as soon as he got home. Usually he added a third character, a heavyweight boxer who was the one wearing the boxing glove. The boxer had a strong resemblance to Muhammad Ali.
The paintings (acrylics) that Don sold were seascapes often featuring a lighthouse. They varied in size from about 6 to 8 inches square on up. One of the largest paintings he did was not for sale. It hung over our fireplace for many years. Now our son Errol and his wife have it. It is pictured in the column on the right.
* This is the familiar name by which the art show was known in those days. It has changed over the years and has had various official titles.
(For further details about American Weekly see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Weekly)

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