By Mortz C. Ortigoza
I just saw an ugly public official with big
lips, protruding upper teeth, flat nose, big eye glasses, fat belly, and
crumpled dress. Those downsides could be exaggerated on a cartoon to attract
readers and amused them. But, hikbi, er, sigh, beginning last week I no longer
drew an illustration for our weekly newspaper's Northern Watch .
The editor-in-chief asked me and writers to add
another news article to spike the number of our news for our weekly
publication. Since I drew the political caricature for our editorial because
the real cartoonist left, I told her I’ll no longer make illustration since it
would add more man hours for my work as columnist and a daily radio
commentator.
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| My 26 cartoons in a row. |
For a stint of six months and two weeks, I had
passionately drawn cartoons. Drawing, son of a gun, was my childhood past time!
I got the ire of my elementary and high school
teachers then because when they became a bore with their teaching, I sketched
at my notebooks and my parents reprimanded me when most of these teachers
reported my actuation to them.
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| Ranan Lurie's cartoon. Lurie was the illustrator of U.S magazine's Newsweek. He influenced' my zeal to draw since my elementary grades |
"Beside, notebooks are expensive you just don't
draw on them," my mother angrily told me and that was in the late 1970s
and early 1980s where cheap notebooks from China ay hinde pa ata uso.
