Rare- Jeff MacNelly Original Hand-Drawn Editorial Cartoon 1978 \"Shake\"

$Rare- Jeff MacNelly Original Hand-Drawn Editorial Cartoon 1978 \$

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Rare- Jeff MacNelly Original Hand-Drawn Editorial Cartoon 1978 \"Shake\":
$550.00

Original editorial cartoon art signed by Jeff MacNelly. The copyright date is 1978. This is not a print or a copy- this is original artwork by the great Jeff MacNelly.

Hand drawn in ink on Benday paper, measuring 12\" x 17.75\". The cartoon features a smiling President Jimmy Carter standing between Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Isreali Prime Minister Menachem Begin. Both Sadat and Begin\'s arms are twisted as they shake hands. This was likely a cartoon about the Camp David Peace Accord, which was reached in September 1978. You can clearly see the pencil work underneath the ink. You can also see how Jeff re-drew Begin\'s face. He applied white and and then drew in ink over it. Jeff worked in a confident style and he often made modifications to his layouts as he drew the final cartoons.You can also see where he was breaking in his pen in the margin on the upper left (outside the printed area).

It is signed \"MacNelly\" in the top left corner next to \"The Richmond News Leader 1978 By Chicago Tribune\". This drawing is completely original and it has never been damaged or repaired. It comes unframed.

Background-

MacNelly got a job at the Chapel Hill Weekly during his years at school in UNC. He worked there for the editor who became his mentor, Jim \"Shu\" Shumaker, who was also a professor at UNC-Chapel Hill. Shumaker\'s impression on the cartoonist was so profound that MacNelly created the comic strip Shoe after \"Shu,\" and the strip\'s lead character is based upon him. MacNelly considered his two years at the Chapel Hill newspaper to be what led to his \"break\"; his cartoons were picked up by newspapers across the state.

By 1970, MacNelly had become such an accomplished artist that he was hired by Ross Mackenzie at The Richmond News Leader in Richmond, Virginia to be their main illustrator and satirist. In less than two years in 1972, MacNelly won his first Pulitzer Prize, helping to put the small paper on the map. MacNelly\'s first son Jake was born that same year.

At this time, MacNelly was courted by various newspaper syndicates and journals to work for them, but he turned them down, preferring the slower pace of southern culture. In 1974, his second son Danny was born, and MacNelly was settling into being syndicated through the Chicago Tribune, while making the South his home. In 1977, he launched his first comic strip, Shoe, which was an immediate success. In 1981, he quit as editorial cartoonist at the News-Leader to focus on Shoe full-time, but found he needed to work in a newspaper office atmosphere to concentrate. In the 1980s, MacNelly moved to Chicago (to work for the Chicago Tribune) and eventually back to Virginia.

Shoe was syndicated in 950 newspapers by 1986, with millions of readers. A line of stuffed animals based on the cartoon\'s characters was produced. MacNelly also illustrated a book written by former Senator Eugene McCarthy and columnist James Kilpatrick, A Political Bestiary- Viable Alternatives, Impressive Mandates, and Other Fables.

MacNelly\'s editorial cartoons often appeared in book collections. When MacNelly represented the Irish Republican Army as a leprechaun that was a rat in one of his Chicago Tribune syndicated editorial cartoons after the IRA blew up a bus filled with schoolchildren, protesters objecting to the cartoon\'s contents picketed outside the Boston Globe\'s offices for three weeks.[2] One of his most reprinted cartoons featured Mikhail Gorbachev with a birthmark in the shape of Afghanistan. MacNelly believed that in order to draw and write editorial cartoons, an artist had to have an opinion on the news, so he watched television news to gauge what other Americans were seeing and read the columns of Hugh Sidey, George Will and Meg Greenfield.

Please feel free to write with questions. I reserve the right to disqualify buyers if they are outside the US (and there may be a restriction on selling the woods in this guitar overseas anyway), or have less than stellar reviews. Buyer pays for shipping costs.

Look for my other original cartoon art listings on , as I will be selling many Jeff MacNelly editorial and Shoe cartoons, Pat Oliphant editorial cartoons, Lee Lorenz (New Yorker published), Johnny Hart (BC/Wizard of Id), Dik Browne (Hagar the Horrible) and Mort Walker (Beetle Bailey).

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