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Quick Draw

Aired June 08, 2003 - 09:40   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


SANJAY GUPTA, CNN ANCHOR: So you've been sitting around trying to figure out what the cartoon of the week is going to be.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: That's right. So for that, we welcome Mike Luckovich for our "Quick Draw" segment. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the "Atlanta Journal- Constitution."

MIKE LUCKOVICH, EDITORIAL CARTOONIST, "ATLANTA JOURNAL- CONSTITUTION": Man, as you're talking, I am sitting here -- this is a three-panel cartoon today that I did. So it's a lot of drawing, so I'm trying to draw as quickly as I can.

COLLINS: Furiously sketching away.

GUPTA: Didn't we give you this just -- was it an hour ago?

LUCKOVICH: Oh, it was less than -- it was like a half-hour ago.

COLLINS: Make sure we get that right.

LUCKOVICH: All right. Yes, yes.

COLLINS: We want to look at some of the other work that you've been doing.

LUCKOVICH: Right, right, a couple before. Of course, this week was not a good week for Martha Stewart. And so I did this cartoon. I've got a guy labeled "Feds" and he's reading Martha Stewart's magazine "Living." And he's reading, "Nothing makes an occasion more festive than a roaring fire," as he's about to torch Martha.

You know what kind of bugs me, though? She's gone through a lot because of this whole thing. As well she deserves. But what about those Enron guys and WorldCom guys?

GUPTA: What was the number, Heidi, $47,000?

COLLINS: 45 something, almost, barely $46,000 she would have lost if she had waited a day.

LUCKOVICH: These guys cost people their livelihoods and their retirements. So she's the one that's being roasted.

Moving on. A lot of times with my cartoons, I like to show kind of better living through my cartoons. So this next one is the cork removal guide. The first panel you see, a waiter or somebody, turning corkscrew, pull up to extract. The second panel, you hand Sosa his bat. That's how you pull out the cork.

COLLINS: Interesting. We learned quite a bit about that yesterday, the cork in the bat.

GUPTA: It actually makes the bat lighter, so what you get is bat speed, increased bat speed, but you trade down momentum. There's a little bit of controversy. Some people say the ball actually doesn't go as far with a corked bat.

LUCKOVICH: Mainly what a corked bat does is just provide fodder for a cartoonist. That's why he did it, I'm sure.

Now, this is the cartoon that I did here. Now, I hope you all can tell what I've done here. Let's see. Where are we looking at? Here we go.

It's a three-panel cartoon. That would be the first panel. You see Sharon and Abbas, the -- at the Mideast summit, and Bush is behind them. And then, if we go to the second panel, which is right here, which is basically the same thing. They're shaking hands. And then, if you could go to the third panel, and Bush is thinking to himself, "I hope the super glue holds."

COLLINS: That's pretty good.

LUCKOVICH: Now, remember...

COLLINS: This was our winner of the vote today, the Middle East peace process.

LUCKOVICH: And folks, keep in mind this is a half-hour cartoon. So it's...

COLLINS: You know, I am incredibly impressed, as always.

LUCKOVICH: Thank you. It's just panic and fear of having to end up drawing a snoopy on here when I can't come up with anything that forces me to come up with something.

COLLINS: Just a mindless snoopy, huh?

LUCKOVICH: Yes.

COLLINS: That's good stuff. Of course there's going to be a lot more to come on the Israeli-Palestinian situation.

Mike Luckovich, you did it again. Thank you so much.

LUCKOVICH: Thanks for having me.

COLLINS: We will see you next weekend.

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Aired June 8, 2003 - 09:40   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN ANCHOR: So you've been sitting around trying to figure out what the cartoon of the week is going to be.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: That's right. So for that, we welcome Mike Luckovich for our "Quick Draw" segment. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist for the "Atlanta Journal- Constitution."

MIKE LUCKOVICH, EDITORIAL CARTOONIST, "ATLANTA JOURNAL- CONSTITUTION": Man, as you're talking, I am sitting here -- this is a three-panel cartoon today that I did. So it's a lot of drawing, so I'm trying to draw as quickly as I can.

COLLINS: Furiously sketching away.

GUPTA: Didn't we give you this just -- was it an hour ago?

LUCKOVICH: Oh, it was less than -- it was like a half-hour ago.

COLLINS: Make sure we get that right.

LUCKOVICH: All right. Yes, yes.

COLLINS: We want to look at some of the other work that you've been doing.

LUCKOVICH: Right, right, a couple before. Of course, this week was not a good week for Martha Stewart. And so I did this cartoon. I've got a guy labeled "Feds" and he's reading Martha Stewart's magazine "Living." And he's reading, "Nothing makes an occasion more festive than a roaring fire," as he's about to torch Martha.

You know what kind of bugs me, though? She's gone through a lot because of this whole thing. As well she deserves. But what about those Enron guys and WorldCom guys?

GUPTA: What was the number, Heidi, $47,000?

COLLINS: 45 something, almost, barely $46,000 she would have lost if she had waited a day.

LUCKOVICH: These guys cost people their livelihoods and their retirements. So she's the one that's being roasted.

Moving on. A lot of times with my cartoons, I like to show kind of better living through my cartoons. So this next one is the cork removal guide. The first panel you see, a waiter or somebody, turning corkscrew, pull up to extract. The second panel, you hand Sosa his bat. That's how you pull out the cork.

COLLINS: Interesting. We learned quite a bit about that yesterday, the cork in the bat.

GUPTA: It actually makes the bat lighter, so what you get is bat speed, increased bat speed, but you trade down momentum. There's a little bit of controversy. Some people say the ball actually doesn't go as far with a corked bat.

LUCKOVICH: Mainly what a corked bat does is just provide fodder for a cartoonist. That's why he did it, I'm sure.

Now, this is the cartoon that I did here. Now, I hope you all can tell what I've done here. Let's see. Where are we looking at? Here we go.

It's a three-panel cartoon. That would be the first panel. You see Sharon and Abbas, the -- at the Mideast summit, and Bush is behind them. And then, if we go to the second panel, which is right here, which is basically the same thing. They're shaking hands. And then, if you could go to the third panel, and Bush is thinking to himself, "I hope the super glue holds."

COLLINS: That's pretty good.

LUCKOVICH: Now, remember...

COLLINS: This was our winner of the vote today, the Middle East peace process.

LUCKOVICH: And folks, keep in mind this is a half-hour cartoon. So it's...

COLLINS: You know, I am incredibly impressed, as always.

LUCKOVICH: Thank you. It's just panic and fear of having to end up drawing a snoopy on here when I can't come up with anything that forces me to come up with something.

COLLINS: Just a mindless snoopy, huh?

LUCKOVICH: Yes.

COLLINS: That's good stuff. Of course there's going to be a lot more to come on the Israeli-Palestinian situation.

Mike Luckovich, you did it again. Thank you so much.

LUCKOVICH: Thanks for having me.

COLLINS: We will see you next weekend.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com