Sharpie pen in hand, from a desk at his home near Buffalo, New York political cartoonist Dale Neseman reads The County Press online to glean ideas for new material. See an assortment of his cartoons that were published in this paper on page 4A.
LAPEER TWP. — For more than 15 years Dale Neseman has been drawing the political cartoon published each Sunday and Wednesday on the editorial page of The County Press. It’s a neat story how the magic occurs and the unique content makes it before your eyes each week.
Neseman, 71, lives in Hamburg, New York (near Buffalo) where from his in-home studio he reads The County Press online to glean ideas about what’s going in our community and what people are talking about (via letters to the editor, Sound Off). Earning degrees from Ferris State University in Big Rapids and The State University of New York at Oswego, Neseman worked as a graphic designer for an auto supply manufacturer that made windshield wipers in Buffalo. After that he became an advertising executive for a furniture company before going to work as a marketing communications manager for the Marriott Corporation.
“I got tired of the corporate world (maybe they got tired of me) and decided to purchase a small printing business with six employees. About the same time I was just beginning my editorial cartoon career, drawing for my local newspaper for fun and a few bucks,” said Neseman.
He continued, “The digital world was beginning to overtake the printing industry and soon I had to make a decision; buy all new, very expensive digital printers or sell the business and become a full-time cartoonist. I rolled the dice and chose the latter. I utilized the internet to cultivate new business and before I knew it, I was actually able to make a humble living doing something I had only dreamed of just a few years before.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Tom Toles, who works for The Washington Post, went to the same high school as Neseman did. Toles was a couple years younger than Neseman, but they had the same art teacher. “He was already pretty well known by this time, but I thought ‘he did it, why can’t I?’ Although I never reached his level of fame, in my world of smaller newspapers I held my own winning Better Newspaper Awards in New York, Florida, Arkansas, Illinois and Michigan.”
The County Press is the only Michigan newspaper Neseman draws for.
Neseman has about 10 newspapers he draws for around the country. He used to draw for about 30 nationally and 15 to 20 in New York State that pick up his cartoons through a service provided by the New York Press Association.
“I know more trivia about small towns than I care to admit,” said Neseman. “But one thing they all have in common is they love cartoons about their own local community. I strive to draw my cartoons with a local slant, but it’s not always possible.”
How does he get his ideas? “Sometimes they just happen, like babies and mosquito bites. Those cartoons I can draw in 30 minutes. Other times I might work on a cartoon for two hours, getting hand gestures and facial expressions just right — checking the proper positioning of the subject before deciding the cartoon just isn’t working and trash it,” said Neseman. “There are times I have lost sleep trying to come up with a clever idea. Oh, did I mention I work from home. I can always take a nap on the couch.”
He added, “I plan to keep on doing this until I can’t hold my Sharpie any longer. Or my wife tells me I need a ‘real’ job.”
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