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.

Through Facebook, I seem to be finding new friends in Michigan lately, and one of them posted this about storms they’ve been having there.

Michigan Storm Damage

With all the news on TV lately about the hurricanes hitting the southern states of the US and mud slides in the Middle East and South America, along with the dire predictions made by such films as The Day After Tomorrow, we shouldn’t forget that Northern Michigan has its share of devastating weather too. Attached is a photo illustrating the damage caused to a friend’s home from a storm that passed through a couple of weeks ago. It really makes you cherish what you have, and reminds us not to take things for granted.

damage from Michigan storm

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.