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.

Subject for Illustration Friday is expired. Why can’t they do more subjects about death?

And I think some of those kids have had it. This is part of my Morbid file, of course. How does a snake kill a baby? Squeezing or swallowing? I took a wild guess.

For Google: Report Card for Python: Reading F, Writing F, Squeezing kids to death A, Arithmetic F, History F.

Yeah, I wrote about Navy sonar killing whales over on my political cartoon site.

MFA sonars send intense pulses of noise through the water that can disrupt or injure marine mammals nearby. Scientists say it can trigger fatal mass strandings under certain circumstances.

The Navy has the proof, they’re just making a judgment call (no puns, thanks.) that they have to keep making the same sonar sounds over and over, like 3 year olds playing with their toys.   I’ve noticed some scientists are like this, too, unfortunately; they base science on a hypothesis, with a provable result, and then spend years doing the SAME tests over and over. That sounds like a video game to me.

For Illustration Friday, subject: Subterranean.

Caption: So the Navy will continue to use sonar, but we can pick any beach in the world. To die on.