My First Subscriber
November, 1978
The Sanders County Ledger
Thompson Falls, Montana
Having coffee with Doc Eggensperger (left),
the first publisher to subscribe to my then-new
editorial cartoon service.
Ninilchik, Alaska
Thanksgiving, 1998
Hello ...
Twenty years ago when I began my career as a smalltown cartoonist, little
did I know what extraordinary adventures lay ahead.
Little did I know that I'd be cartooning from four continents for more than 1500 newspapers. Or that I'd be visiting hundreds of schools to teach kids
to draw.
Or that I'd be inspiring a Nashville television special, ramroddin'
America's biggest cattle drive in 100 years, joining a government trade mission to Asia, coaching a softball team along the Yukon River, breaking wild horses in New Mexico, inciting a revolution in Tasmania, or be launching off an aircraft carrier off the coast of Saudi Arabia. Whew!
It's like I've been a poster child for Helen Keller's famous dictum: "Life is either an exciting adventure or nothing at all."
But that's how it's gone. And I'm forever grateful for that chilly
Monday morning just before Thanksgiving, 1978, when I wander-
ed into the Ledger office in Thompson Falls, had a cup of coffee
with ol' Doc Eggensperger, signed him up, and launched "Barry's
Cartoons" as my life's work.
Who knows what the next twenty years will bring. But I assure
you I'll be doing my best to give your readers cartoons the kind
of cartoons they'll really enjoy -- and you'll be proud to run.
Happy Turkey Day,
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