I just wanted to see if you were awake.

if a snake....cartoon

Yeah, I did a bunch of condom cartoons. I think it was for National Lampoon, when they had a call-out for condom and nun cartoons, but not in the same cartoon. I feel I know more about snakes than nuns.

I don’t think they ever did the round-up, which is a pity, because I did some pretty great cartoons on this. A man’s magazine (Penthouse?) used one, I think.

For Illustration Friday: Slither.

For Google: COPPERHEAD: Deadly snake, or condom holder? You decide.

This is a typical New Yorker cartoon about Hollywood.

hollywood producer cartoon in new yorker style

You got your palm trees, your men in colorful flowered shirts, and the strange, violent language. The posters on the wall, and the script in his hand just add to the fun.

Of course, only 3 New Yorker cartoonists actually live out here: Leo Cullum, Bruce Eric Kaplan, and me. Bruce actually writes on some tv shows – or he did. Leo was a pilot, and retired a few years ago. I’m me.

For Illustration Friday, subject: equipment. However, even though I find the subject the week before, it often changes in my mind to something else! For instance, I thought this week’s subject was toolbox. So then I remembered my fixit man cartoon, from my Love Me or Go To Hell book, but I used that one before. So then I found this one, with a …hammer.

This is a rough, obviously. I kind of like it.

Caption: No more figures, Sam. Figures choke me. Hammer me with your gut instinct.

And I have been thinking about scriptwriting again, anyway. I think I will.

For Illustration Friday: cocoon. I’ve done a few cartoons about butterflies not going back to the cocoon, moving on, and sadly, in this case, living only one day.

butterfly gets temp job cartoon

You did know that, right? That many (most?) butterflies only live one day?

Okay, I just looked it up, and I’m wrong! [/blush] From the Butterfly Site:

There is an average life span of a butterfly – it is usually about one month.  Although the smallest butterflies that you can usually spot feasting on the flowers in your front yard will usually only live about one week.

Well, for the purpose of this cartoon, it still works… for temporary employment.

Cartoon caption for blind Google: “Were you thinking of permanent or temporary employment?” from HR to a butterfly.

You could add this to my insect OR my death collection.

For Illustration Friday, the subject is: dip. I think you dip in the lambada, right? If it’s not on Dancing with the Stars, I don’t know it.

Cartoon caption: I put the lambada on my resume. It couldn’t hurt…

You know how they talk in coffee shops. I could do this, I might do that, I’m writing a script… This is obviously a young lad, not too far out of college, and he’s pulling out all the stops, by listing his dances, his rpg, etc on his resume. The woman in the cartoon wonders if he is gay. The guy on the laptop is writing a novel.

I wish everyone well in their job hunt.