This is a typical New Yorker cartoon about Hollywood. Not that this is really Hollywood, of course, but it's what NEW YORK thinks Hollywood is. 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 ...

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. 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For Illustration Friday, subject: Perspective. When I first started cartooning I realized that I knew nothing about perspective. I looked at other cartoonists' work and was amazed at how they had  several things in the drawing, all the proper size! I bought (easy) books, asked people, but most of all I practiced, and studied how other cartoonists ...

Oops, did I spoil the cartoon? For Illustration Friday: propagate is the challenge. And chickens do that. This is an easy idea to tinker with, if you're good with words. The ending to Which came first, could be anything, and I think I've come up with half a dozen gags over the years. But politics has ...