published cartoons: Sept. 10/08: Branningham Grove faces deomolition

I ate there once when it was in one of its restaurant incarnations. It was beautiful... the food was o.k., too. It seems a shame that it's going to be plowed under, likely.
Having said that, let me share a personal anecdote about this cartoon. I went over to my neighbourhood friend's porch where a bundle of papers are dropped off for his son to deliver. I
took my copy, and as I was walking home I turned to page "A4" to see if I had a cartoon in that day. I did. It was the "Contractor Tales" one you will see posted below. I set the paper aside to do some housework. In the afternoon that neighbour asked me what I did to get two cartoons in the paper in one day. I said, "What?" (I thought he was pulling my leg). He said he was serious, so I immediately thought I must be blind. I asked him where it was? He said right beside the other one on the opposite page, (A5), accompanied by a letter from some reader. So I went and checked it out and sure enough there it was.
So I'm not blind, just unobservant... but I already knew that. Anyway, I was really glad this one got printed because I spent some time at it and consider it more a work of "fine" art than a cartoon. (Does that make cartoons "not-so-fine art"??? Apologies to my cartoonist soldiers in arms... ) Maybe what i mean to say is that I was just shooting for more visual realism than caricature or visual jokes.