Classic WSJ Art , Part 21

( To view the initial Post in this series, please click on https://cyan-sunfish-e2wr.squarespace.com/config/pages/620a981b1f3c5f26f4888ee8 ) Another dip into my archive of the art I created at The Wall Street Journal, in the 1980’s, beginning with an early piece:

Trooper

The above, created at the very start of my WSJ career, either end of 1979 or 1980. This was an extremely long half-column illustration. Check out those boots! Even early on, the pointillism reveals itself… A building block of my signature-style hedcut portrait, as seen below:

WSJ hedcut

The ballplayer Eddie Murray, from a half-column appearance on Page One. I used to enjoy taking a break from all the detail-oriented drawings I made at the Journal. Here is a simple conceptual illustration for a story about the folks that distrust financial institutions…

Simple bed for an enormously wealthy person! Continuing in the graphic line, here is a logo for a series in the paper about cutting red-tape in government regulation… we were in the Reagan era:

Returning to tradition, here is one of the tools of the trade for those who scanned the numbers in the back-pages of The WSJ… an old-fashioned stock ticker:

I remember having a hard time locating source-imagery for this drawing. Even in the 80’s, this device seemed to be from a bygone era! All though it appears totally appropriate in the pages of this blog, I am not at all sure it was created for the Journal. More next time…