Down the Stretch

Death in the Desert

I did do another techo scene while at IBM school in 1959. Since this is a place of death, I suppose the bird on the cactus was supposed to be a vulture, though it might be an owl. Frankly it came out looking like some weird missing link -- half bird and half frog. 

All I can say is that machine generated imaging has come a long way in the last 51 years.

It Takes Two to Produce One George Washington

This particular "sketch" was done by Tom Newman and me. It looks like a very simple drawing of the first president to have taken two artists to do. The thing is it was done on IBM TAB Equipment in 1959. Both Tom and I were attending IBM school (which is where we met), were both studying Art and both wanted to be cartoonists. So we collaborated in wiring control boards and punching cards to produce this rudimentary portrait.