Delonas - Sean Delonas: 201 Cartoons

Skyhorse and Skyhorse Publishing are registered trademarks of Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Visit our website at www.skyhorsepublishing.com. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available on file. Cover design by Sean Delonas and Brian Peterson Cover illustrations credit Sean Delonas Cartoons by John Delonas reproduced on page 11 with permission by Nadia Delonas Print ISBN: 978-1-63220-365-6 Ebook ISBN: 978-1-63220-839-2 Printed in China CONTENTS For my mother, father and son FOREWORD If he was a normal personlike you or meit might be fair to tag Sean Delonas as a perversely evil misanthrope. A man poised to pounce on the missteps of icons and idiots with equal contempt. But Delonas isnt an evil genius; hes just a 64, 250-pound man-child who happens to be a master draftsman.

He can draw, paint, or sculpt anything, but usually that anything is a woebegone politico or a celebrity whos recently ruined his or her life with a very bad public choice. According to Mark Twain, Humor is tragedy plus time. Delonas once actually tested Twains theory with a block cartoon of a Ford Theater usher asking Mary Todd Lincoln, Other than that, how was the play? Whether it was just an old joke that still has a little laughing gas in it or Abes expressionXs for eyes and his tongue lolling from his mouthbut that panel is plain funny. More often Delonas found himself in hot water with both his editors at the Post and his readership because his work rarely enjoyed the luxury of time in that classic comedy equation. One of those all-too-soon laughs that incited a vicious public backlash was over a panel cartoon about the infamous lip-sync duo Milli Vanilli. In this sketch MV front man Rob Pilatus, who had just OD-ed in real life, is drawn flat on his back apparently asking for medical help.

A befuddled cop cant understand the nature of the emergency because, as the cops says, His lips are moving but nothings coming out. Its okay to smileDelonas is a guilty pleasure. How about when Michael Jackson was acquitted on charges of sexual misconduct with a minor? Delonas illustrated that breaking news with a cartoon of the King of Pop sitting at the dinner table with his closest pals including the bones of the elephant man, Bubbles the chimp, and an anaconda. MJ declares, With the trial over things can get back to normal around here. It was a very good cartoon, but the one Delonas really wanted to appear, but was rejected by Post editors as too far over the edge, was MJ hugging a young boy in celebration of his acquittal. In this frame it appears the Gloved-ones lost mitten could be found in the waistband of the youngsters shorts.

True, that cartoon was rejected, yet it made it into the paper anyway because mischievous Delonas drew it as a framed wall-painting in the background of the back to normal panel. And Sean Delirious thought nobody would notice. Be you a president or a pastor you were never safe from Delonass very sharp pencil. After Rev. Al Sharpton once compared his work with that of Martin Luther King Jr., Delonas was inspired to draw a rare two panel cartoon. One with Dr.

King delivering his famous line, I have a dream; the second with the self-promoting Sharpton uttering, I have a scheme. President Bill Clintons sexual appetites were often fodder for Delonas, who liked to draw Clinton in luv-print boxer shorts holding a power drill attached to a spinning fish. When asked, What gives with the fish-drill? Delonas would admit he didnt know, but he liked how the odd semi-sexual device would fire peoples imaginations as to its use. Thats one of Delonass secrets: he makes us complicit in his madness. And as for that monkey, all I can say is if Delonas intended it to be President Obama it would have had bigger ears. To understand Delonass fuck-em-if-they-cant-take-a-joke attitude you have to loosen up and be ready to be offended.

His holiday cartoon of an elephant, a duck, a gorilla, and a giraffe all hitched to Santas sleigh explains the man perfectly. After looking at the menagerie replacing Rudolf and the other reindeer, you have to agree with the elf telling Santa, I think were getting carried away with this political correctness. Amen. Dan Aquilante, December 2014 INTRODUCTION M y father drew cartoons. My earliest memories are scribbling cartoons with him at the kitchen table. Some things about my fathers life are known to me only through his cartoonsexperiences of war, his youth (notice the cat drinking and smoking in the cartoon Hugh of Drew (and Kinsey, the Cat)), women, and so on.

Luckily, my cartoons say nothing about me. In 1990, my life changed after drawing a portrait of the late, great Bay Rigby (pictured right). Bay was the New York Post s Page Six cartoonist and son of the famed Daily News cartoonist, Paul Rigby. Bay wanted to go back to Australia and asked if I would fill in for him for three months at the Post . Managing editor Lou Colasuonno hired me. The first person I told was my father.

For the rest of his life, my father called me at work with ideas and always would hand me several pages of drawings at every family get together. Almost twenty-three years, and nearly six thousand cartoons after taking a temporary three-month job, I accepted a buyout. My career with the New York Post ended on May 31, 2013. The National Review Online wrote, Sean Delonas Has Left the New York Post . Page Six just wont be the same without him. Scribbling with my father led to something bigger than I ever dreamed.

Thanks, Dad. CELEBRITIES