I wrote the teasers for the front page, laid out the rest of the pages. I was bangin’ ’em out one after another. Mugging that dog and taking his ring with the power pill really paid off!
(My original teaser for the midwife story was, “She knows sumthin’ ’bout birthin’ those babies!” The newspaper advisor said no.)
I laid these out…
I laid out these pages.
I laid out the bottom half of this page. Editor-in-chief Scott Shumaker did the top half.
This first page was a “whattya think?’ test layout. The advisor said, nice, but no.
I made these pages like a big boy!
Page I put together for the May Puma Press…
I did this!
Loon News page I laid out for the April issue of The Puma Press
I laid this page out. I put my brain through the wringer trying to think of something to fill that hole in the masthead. I came up with “The Daily Prayer.” I put in a classic picture of God (stern looking, bearded man) and wrote: “Today’s Daily Prayer: Dear Lord, please help me come up with something to fill this stupid hole on the page.”
When I picked up the published paper a few days later, I saw that it was yanked.
Eric Paul Johnson 