For Illustration Friday: subject is frozen.

Well, it would have been understandable, and all too easy to do ice cream for this subject. But it’s almost Halloween! And this is a very very cold…drink.

You know what the waiter is about to say, right? Cold as a witch’s toes in a brass bottle. Isn’t that how it goes?

This cartoon is part of my Daily Special feature, for some of the top newspapers in the country.

The Caption: I make a martini as cold as…well, it’s very cold.”

Yup, I got away with this line! Doing these cartoons every week really taught me a lot about how to draw for newspapers, in a small space, and how to make black and white pop.

More cartoons:
1. How many minority and women cartoonists are in the LA Times?
2. Which came first, Democrats or Republicans?
3. When people read magazines