I was talking about failing and failing often earlier in the week, and I ran across this Henry Martin book, “Good News – Bad News.”
Martin is one of my favorite cartoonists, and goodness knows he was successful, but when I got to the back of the book, I noticed how many of the cartoons were listed as ‘previously unpublished.’ (Click on the images to see larger ones…)
There’s a lot of failure in the back of that book; a lot of really good, useful, necessary failure.
And that’s why Martin sold so much.
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Henry Martin drew 5 cartoons a day. He worked very hard. His daughter, Ann, when questioned about her success as the creator of the Baby-sitters Club series of books, credits her work ethic to watching her cartoonist dad.
1997 Photo of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Martin from Scholastic's Ann M. Martin site:
http://www.scholastic.com/annmartin/letters/images/mar04/AMmom_dad72.jpg
— Mike "I Heard This All from Henry Martin's Friend Sid Harris" Lynch
Mark, that's a great observation. I'll have to steal it for my blog.
LOL! I think I stole it from Lynch. (BTW, did you know he wears makeup?)