Happy 90th Birthday To The World’s Greatest Yachting Cartoonist

The fortunes of editorial cartoonists, comic book cartoonists, newspaper strip cartoonists, cartoonists working in animation and webcomics cartoonists may rise and fall with the general economy, shifts in the entertainment industry, and the whims of any number of capricious readerships, but part of me thinks the overall field has to be doing okay if there's a man out there who's legitimately described as a "yachting cartoonist." Yachting Monthly salutes the 90th birthday of just such a man, Yachting Cartoonist Mike Peyton, whose career includes multiple by-lined placements of work into yachting magazines, a series of successful postcards, multiple books and a biography. That's an awesome, charmingly peculiar and very sweet article about Yachting Cartoonist Peyton's birthday party, too. At one point it abandons the normal means of journalistic inquiry and enters right into its subject's mind; at another we get poetry:

"Over the sighing and leafless poplar trees, ragged cloud blew northwards behind the southerly tempest forming a halo around the moon."

We should be grateful for a field of artistic endeavor that constantly reveals itself to be a little bit bigger than we imagine, and the fascinating people that inhabit these largely unexplored creative domains.
 
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