Walt Handelsman

When I work in my Newsday office, I turn off the lights so I can trace my rough sketches onto my thicker drawing paper by using a light table. So I lugged the light table to the DNC in Denver but once I saw our unbelievably bright, plastic-roofed work tent, I knew I was in trouble.

First I tried pulling the blue plastic skirt running around the table over my head like one of those old-time photographers but that didn't work.

Then I actually tried to lay on the floor under the table but realized immediately that I would never be able to walk again if I spent two hours down there.

Finally I decided to think inside the box.

More later---Walt

It's Convention Time Again!

There are more clowns than in a circus tent in this new animation about the upcoming political conventions.

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