I’ve been having a lot of fun with cliches, turns of phrase and hackneyed imagery lately. That said, I get irritated when – as is so often the case – these are used in place of thoughtfulness and creativity. However, when they are used differently, surprisingly or with a twist, I find them very entertaining and refreshing. To me, the element of comedic ambush is everything in a cartoon. When I was thinking of the turn of phrase “betting on, or backing the wrong horse” I was trying to conjur ways to depict a wrong or bad horse in relation to Bush’s massive financial backing of General Pervez Musharraf, and the trojan horse being the “wrong horse” just seemed funny to me. If I had drawn some type of horse race scenario…That would have been dull and predictable. Same with just drawing the boring old Trojan Horse alone to depict my observation. But somehow, the melding of the two made me smile.