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Giant ice cream sundae.

For Illustration Friday, the subject was: “sugary.” I’ve always hated to follow directions, and the sound of this word sets my teeth on end, anyway. I’ve never liked powdered sugar on baked goods. But I do like jimmies! Out here they call them sprinkles. I prefer all chocolate.

out of jimmies
"Uh oh, we're out of jimmies." (Or sprinkles, for you weird people.) ?D. Barstow 2010

I found a whole forum on jimmies, here.

Someone at school told me that jimmies is actually a ra-cial slur related to the Jim Crow laws (‘course, she was from Jersey)…anyone else heard this?

I hope not! I never heard that before. More comments ideas, below.

Yeah, I’ve heard that they’re sprinkles if they’re multi-colored, and jimmies if they’re chocolate, because it was slang for Jim Crow. And even if it’s not true, enough people around think it’s true, so I call them all sprinkles.

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Donna Does Desserts

chocolate ice cream illustration friday new yorker cartoon

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Break up cartoon with alimony.

Divorce cartoon
“I just told him to pack his bags, get out, and send me large checks.”

Of course, this is a New Yorker cartoon, or SHOULD be a New Yorker one. Tell it to Mankoff. This is for the Illustration Friday topic of PACKED.

I guess divorce isn’t very funny, is it? Probably why I don’t have many divorce cartoons. I was trying to take a different tangent on love gone wrong — and she may be just posturing here. You know she’s spoiled, and used to being taken care of. Rich b.i.t.c.h. thinks the world is her oyster. And it is!

The colors in this cartoon are spring, Easter colors. I decided to go the opposite way of the subject matter. I’m always trying out different color combinations, and it can be a struggle. I didn’t go to art school – which is true of most cartoonists – okay, cartoonists who write their own material.? (We’re writers, first!) I keep thinking that art school would have revealed the mystery of color.

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In the Biz New Yorker cartoons

cartoon color illustration friday womens

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Will a Swatch watch improve your life?

New Yorker cartoons

cartoon illustration friday

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Every woman is an island.

The Illustration Friday request this week was for island. Oh, this was too easy. Every cartoonist has a closet full of desert island cartoons. “Dear Islander, enclosed are the five…

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New Yorker cartoons

books desert island cartoon illustration friday

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I make a bird mistake.

Hmm. I just noticed that the topic for Illustration Friday this week is “clutter”. And here I thought the topic was “FLUTTER”. Being a bird person, and all. Well, there…

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New Yorker cartoons

illustration friday morbid cartoon vulture

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Obsessive-compulsive man speaks from beyond the grave.

New Yorker cartoons

death cartoon illustration friday morbid cartoon

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I spy a shoe sale.

Shoe sale, 75% off! But none in your size, Nancy. Nancy is unlucky at shoes.;) I’m not a boat person, but sometimes I’m a shoe person, especially when they’re on…

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New Yorker cartoons

illustration friday shoes

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