Below are some of the other cartoons that I have done over the years. I never sold a strip to a national syndication. So have spent my life as an architect which is just as delightful. So visit www.molinelliarchitects.com for your next church, school, medical center, or home.
Below is a 2010 effort which entered in The Washington Post Cartoon Contest "Veni, Vidi, Vadi" means loosely, "I came, I saw, I left." Then there are two strips I developed earlier for my own amusement. I was tired of being told they want the next Garfield so I came up with "Daryl The Slug." And since the syndications told me they wanted a strip with a strong central character, here are sample of "God, the strip."
Below is a 2010 effort which entered in The Washington Post Cartoon Contest "Veni, Vidi, Vadi" means loosely, "I came, I saw, I left." Then there are two strips I developed earlier for my own amusement. I was tired of being told they want the next Garfield so I came up with "Daryl The Slug." And since the syndications told me they wanted a strip with a strong central character, here are sample of "God, the strip."
So while Molarity is a success in its niche, I never went to the show with a nationally syndicated strip. This might make me the Crash Davis of cartooning. Below are three strip concepts. The first Quixaders was an abstract comic strip on a planet called Orb where Prolix rides the kangaroo Pell Mell as a knight errant. The format would allow allegorical political and social commentary. No one cared. The next version of Quixaders placed Prolix and Pell Mell in contemporary America fighting injustice. This came the closest to getting picked up, but I lost out to Luann in 1984. I was told my central character was not likeable and he talks to a kangaroo who talks back. Animals just don't talk. (Snoopy and Garfield have thought balloons.) I pointed out that only Prolix talked to and heard Pell Mell, but that was not a sufficient explanation. The next year when Luann premiered so did Calvin and Hobbes. The final 1996 strip concept (which also features a panel if it went comic book) was for a space based comic strip called Squorb. I was told that sci-fi had played out; here was no profit in it. By 1999 Futurama was on TV.
Below is the Molarity in other forms. First is the strip I developed that was to be part of the launch for USA Today in 1982. I was called by the Editors and sent to work the summer of '82 at the Cincinnati Enquirer to develop a national version of Molarity. (There I met one of the great cartoonists, Jim Borgman.) In it, Jim Mole is a TV News Cameraman working with Dion who is the rich elite reporter. Through a mishap, Chuck ends up being Jim's roommate. The format would allow the Molarity characters to go national and permit me to comment on national issues as I had done on Notre Dame issues. USA did not go for the strip and I returned to NY to become an architect. I could not sell the strip to a syndication either. Also in this gallery are some cartoons I did during the summers I worked at McDonalds.
I did political cartoons for various New York Publications (what is now Gannett's Journal News, The North County News and The Empire State Report) and won a number of First Place Prizes for Editorial Cartooning from the New York Press Association. Some of the cartoons appear below, but I could not tell you which cartoons won the prizes.