A typical day started pretty averagely and not too creative (printing out the weather page after adding daily changes given to me via some subscription service, changing the date, changing the index on the front page, etc.) but the latter half of the day I built the front page of one section and worked on different projects like bonus sections, a weekly TV Guide layout, locator maps and instructional graphics. Among those projects were illustrations. They'd plan out stories for the Lifestyles section months in advance and those things that they couldn't easily get pictures for (pictures for a story about junk mail, losing your hearing, hiccups, and couples arguing over their decor to name a few) became mine to create illustrations for. I sometimes had anywhere from 3 to 6 illustrations a month to do. Some I had for a month before the deadline while others were needed tomorrow. I did them all.

It was like Christmas day every day a new one was published and I'd go over to this one department where newspapers were delivered to some girls in the advertising department whose only job was to sit and cut out ads for the salespeople to keep files on and to return to the advertisers with, so they had stacks to papers that were going to be trashed. I'd go through them on those days and pick out a couple of dozen or so of the page or section that had my drawing and I built a huge collection of them.

I can't scan these pages. They're just too big, but I did take the best digital pictures of them that I could. Some of the originals I still have and have scanned them. To see the originals, click on the SCAN link.

Enjoy.