Mike Lynch & I were talking the other day about Mort Drucker, and I mentioned that I’ve always loved his signature:
I remember being a kid admiring Drucker’s work in Mad and thinking how cool those three lines for the “M” were (and are).
So, I dug into the archives and found various incarnations of my own signature. You can even see me copying Drucker a bit…
Here’s one from when I worked on my high school newspaper (1985):
And here’s the cartoon it came from (click the cartoon to enlarge it):
Another from high school, circa 1986:
And the cartoon:
Another high school signature from 1987:
And its corresponding cartoon:
And here we jump quite a bit. I studied to be, and worked as a trombonist for about 10 years, worked some day jobs, etc… And then I got back into cartooning.
This is from 1998 (I think…):
You can see the cartoon it came from here…
I changed to this, my current and probably final version, around 2002 or so:
I have thought over the years to changing my signature to “Andertoons” to help drive traffic to the site, but, honestly, this is probably the end of the line.
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