I've resumed the TV spots after a little summer break. If you look carefully in the first two clips, you can see my leg shaking idiotically and uncontrollably. Which I find very annoying, and will never do, ever again. It's amazing the stupid things you learn when there's a camera on you. Once during a Network TV interview, I swiveled back and forth like a second grader in their swivel-y chair through the whole interview. On the bright side, perhaps … Read more of this entry »

No cartoon from me today. Here's the reason for my silence:

We called him "Wasnum."

The difficulty that my dear late Grandma had remembering names – coupled with her sing-song Welsh brogue – left her applying a single moniker to her various acquaintances: "Wasnum," or "whatsisname" in English. I thought that would be the perfect name for a pound dog.

He was on death row when my wife and I adopted him in the summer of 1999. A large Shepherd/Great Dane mix, ... Read more of this entry »

Size matters. Hope you like the new format. In the previous blog incarnation, the cartoons were too damn small, and I tried out a click-on feature to make them bigger, but it wasn't entirely satisfactory. The header up top was thrown together in about four minutes and it will probably change. The star rating poll below each cartoon pays you $5 for every vote you register. Kidding, of course.

I realize that I haven't drawn the requisite asterisk cartoon about Barry Bonds, as I think there's real stuff going on in the world that actually warrants our attention, but a look back in my file to 2004 shows that I'm not completely indifferent to the exciting world of baseball cheating:

I was originally planning to draw a "boring" cartoon about the wishy-washy Democrats allowing Bush/Cheney's latest stab at Constitutional erosion to become law…Then I couldn't help but notice the apparent lack of outrage over the whole issue. Maybe it's because it's August and people's consciences go on vacation too, but I suspect that in a culture that now thrives on meritless attention seeking, a government official listening in on your phone conversation might … Read more of this entry »