My sketchy reasoning
You’ve all heard the phrase, “Perfect is the enemy of good.” There are variations of that maxim, my favorite being “Perfect is the enemy of DONE.”
If you’re in the business of delivering a product or service (or both) to a paying client, you won’t last long if you are chronically late, even if you overdeliver on the goods. My stints in newspaper production departments, where deadlines were not to be messed with, were my best real-life applications of that lesson.
Although I have worked as a weekly newspaper editorial cartoonist for only a few years, meeting deadlines remains a freshly taught lesson. Workload logjams or other production impediments, such as time lost to air travel, occasionally pop up. At those times, “Good enough is good enough!” becomes a flashing neon sign in my mind’s eye.
The preceding babble is my explanation and weak apology for why this loosely drawn cartoon falls short of my artistic goal. But it was on time, and that’s better than missing a flight.
Thanks for reading Let Me Be Frank. I mean, who else am I gonna be?
