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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1976)
Roy Paul Nelson Cartooning By LORA CUYKENDALL Of the Emerald "Cartoonists draw fast because they don't like to work long hours,” says Charles Schulz. And maybe that's why they write fast, too. Speed is no detriment to quality, however, as Univer sity professor Roy Paul Nelson's book “Cartooning” proves. Drawing on his years of teaching caricature and graphic humour courses at the University and his own experiences as an editorial and gag cartoonist, Nelson was able to complete his latest book in about six months. "Cartooning,” published in April, displays over 250 cartoons drawn by 100 artists, including several from Portland and the Northwest as well as nationally-known cartoonists. Besides tracing the evolution of cartooning and trying to measure its social impact, the 376-page book also serves as a bibliography and how-to-do-it guide. Growing up in Portland in the I930s during the fierce circulation battles among the city's three newspapers, Nelson began his career at an early age. His cartoons decorated the youth pages of the Oregonian, the Oregon Journal and the Portland News-Telegram. It was the crowning glory of my childhood to be published in all three at once,' says Nelson. Looking back, an even more glorious part of Nelson's youth was when, at 14, he finished ahead of Mort Walker in a cartooning contest sponsored by "Open Road for Boys,” a magazine Nelson describes as "not a very distinguished publication, but one remembered fondly by today's middle-aged cartoonists." Walker s comic strip "Beetle Bailey" has since won him a national following. Nelson's high school years were spent laboriously carving his drawings into linoleum blocks, in those days the only reproduction technique which letterpress high school newspapers could afford. He "couldn't get enough" of drawing at Portland's Jefferson High School, but he did get enough of seeing his cartoons indiscriminately butchered by the editor of the high school s newspaper "I originally took journalism to protect myself, he says. "I became editor of the paper and filled it with my own uncropped drawings. With a free scholarship and a New Deal-inspired job which paid him 35 cents an hour for sweeping out the YMCA, Nelson started college amidst the fever of World War II. Attending Oregon while officially a Marine, Nelson graduated from the University of Oregon in 1947 after serving for a time in the South Pacific. After stints of studying at the Art Center College of Design in Los Angeles and working as a public relations person for a forest industries association in Washington, D C. and San Francisco, Nelson returned to Oregon in 1955 to earn an advanced degree and teach. Although he rarely laughs at his own gags and drawings. Nelson does laugh at himself In Cartooning he wntes. that blandness had crept into my work (his Register-Guard editorial cartoons) and was never more apparent to me than when I received from one of my readers a contribution labelled Typical Roy Paul Cartoon Two persons, indifferently drawn, were shown talking. One was saying I think Eugene is nice The other was saying I think everything is nice. Nelson says a cartoonist often draws himself I tend to be bland as a person and it comes out in my drawings, he says. I find it too easy to see both sides of an issue He says he prefers the fine subtlety of social comment embedded in a New Yorker style gag cartoon to the meat cleaver approach of an editorial cartoon footnotes: Footnotes Available for Winter CLASS Anth 101 Anth 102 Anth 302 Bio 102 Bio 272 Bio 302 Bio 305 Bio 322 Bio 381 Chem 102 Chem 105 Chem 332 GS 105 Geog 301 Geol 101 Geol 102 Econ 201 Econ 202 Econ 375 Econ 376 Hist 202 HE 150, 250 Psy 201 Psy 214 Psy 215 Psy 480 Ph 108 PH 116 Soc 201 Soc 201 Soc 306 RHCM 121 PROFESSOR Moreno-Black Carter Tonkinson Postlewaite Frank Sistrom Herskowitz Soderwald McConnaughey Schellman Mazo Boelkelheide Goswami Smith Lund Lund Simeral Grove Grove Simeral Maddex Zentner Littman Hawkins Fagot Kirkpatrick Ebbinghausen Lonnedes Johnson Moen Hill TIME 2:30 UH 10:30 UH 1:30 MWF 12:30 MWF 8:30 MWF 10:30 MWF 8:30 MWF 8:30 MWF 2-3:30 UH 9:30 UH 11:30 MWF 12:30 MWF 1:30 MWF 2:30-4 UH 3:30 MWF 9:30 MWF 3:30 MWF 10:30 MWF 12:30 MWF 11-12:30 UH 12:30 MWF 8:30 MWF 10:30 MWF 9:30 MWF 12:30-2 UH 10:30 MWF 2:30 MWF 1:30 MWF 11:30 MWF 9:30 MWF 11:30 MWF 12:30 M PLACE 180 PLC 150 GEO 180 PLC 177 LA 211 ALL 150 GEO 123 SC 123 SC 123 SC 150 GEO 150 GEO 150 GEO 107 LA 207 CHA 177 LA 150 GEO 180 PLC 180 PLC 103 FEN 103 FEN 180 PLC 180 PLC 177 LA 180 PLC 180 PLC 207 CHA 150-GEO 138 GIL 138 GIL 103 FEN 331 GIL 133 GIL Term 1976 Old Notes are also available at $4.00 for certain classes. 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