Bonehead.

January

It’s been almost a week since I was last able to post. For your light amusement, let me turn back the clock to last Wednesday, the morning of New Year’s Eve. About five minutes after I wrote the previous, mind-bendingly dull blog entry (below), I went outside, where the falling snow was busy accumulating picturesquely. After attempting to start the car and discovering the battery was dead, I took off on a treacherous sprint to my barn (everything I do in life involves some type of treacherous sprint) which houses our old, beat up, but still adequately conductive jumper cables.
Somewhere en route I suddenly became aware of a strange, almost euphoric feeling of floating – followed rapidly by its close cousin, a loud thud. Turns out the thud was the sound my shoulder made on impact with the frozen gravel drive, and the simultaneous “crack” was my right collar bone shearing in two. It was gruesome. Even the EMTs winced. I am typing this with my left hand, as my right hand is attached to a region so drenched in pain it is ostensibly useless.
Which is a long-winded way of saying that I won’t be drawing cartoons for a little while. As soon as the pain subsides adequately (and with some help from my ever-patient, kind and lovely wife) I’ll start doodling. I will be thinking of stupid things to post in the meantime, so keep coming back here – even if it is to rubberneck at my pitiful wreck a little.

Photo: Lucy Davies

This entry was posted on Tuesday, January 6th, 2009 at 8:19 am by Matt Davies.
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21 Responses to “Bonehead.”

parka January 6th, 2009 at 9:26 am
I love your cartoons. Get well soon. Take care.
Jack January 6th, 2009 at 9:56 am
After all that you have been through, you still manage to keep your outstanding sense of humor and that winning smile. or is that just a result of the pain meds.?
Lord Baltimore January 6th, 2009 at 10:29 am
I separated my shoulder years ago and the pain was excruciating. Can’t imagine what a break feels like.
Get well soon, and avoid any snow shoveling.
BULLDOG January 6th, 2009 at 10:37 am
Get well soon Matt. That arm has to be ready when Obama takes over. I’m looking forward to a little Dem bashing since there are no Repubs left LOL!!!!
'58 356A January 6th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
Noooo!! Is the barn okay? Just kidding, of course – are you okay? That smile (and unshaven mug) says it all.

Get well soon!
janice January 6th, 2009 at 1:00 pm
get well soon*miss your cartoonsits a good thing you only broke your collar bonesnow & ice on the way againSTAY INSIDE please*
MikeinAlbany January 6th, 2009 at 3:51 pm
There is a safer method of achieving “euphoric floating” that can be done indoors. For best results, inhaling is recommended.
Seppo January 6th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Sorry for your accident! Your cartoons use to cheer up the day.
Nice to hear that you have still some snow. Get well soon!
Nick Anderson January 6th, 2009 at 4:58 pm
Don’t be a wuss, Matt! Hold a sharpie between your toes and start ‘toonin!

Hope you feel better soon.
Zhaf January 6th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Dude. Ouch!
DebS January 7th, 2009 at 12:10 am
Matt,

Your poor guy! I feel so bad for you.

Gotta ask about your ‘before & after’ photos above: how come you look better ‘after’?

Also, I like that Hugh Laurie/Dr. House thing you’ve got going there. Has your accent shown any change since the accident?

Please get better soon.

Oh yeah, has anybody ever heard of that Nick Anderson guy before? That name looks so familiar.
Erik Petri January 7th, 2009 at 4:18 am
Hi Matt.
Get well soon I´m addicted to your daily cartoon. They are just as important, as coffee in the morning.
Matt Davies January 7th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Hey thanks everyone! The pain is mercifully subsiding with every day. I should be able to “draw” by the end of the week/beginning of next. Funny thing is, the physical difficulty of drawing is almost immaterial compared to the inability to think of any halfway decent ideas while being distracted by what feels like a rusty machete sticking into my shoulder.

As to DebS question…The mug shot at the top of my blog is a crap picture of me, but I didn’t really care. Just humanizes the blog a little. Maybe I should use one that does actually resemble the way I look? As to Hugh Laurie, my hat is off to him. I have been living in the US since ‘83 and I still can’t do a believable American accent. My wife laughs at me mockingly when I try (It’s okay, I return the favor when she rolls out her British effort!)

And Nick Anderson? He and I have been friends since we were callow, sniveling nobodies drinking nervously in the corner at editorial cartoonist conventions…
Heather January 7th, 2009 at 10:44 am
Get well soon, Matt!

I know a great acupuncturist in Nyack if the pain meds don’t cut it.
PaMdora January 7th, 2009 at 11:48 am
Bummer! Sorry about the shoulder, hope you’re back to drawing soon.
Lalas January 7th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Get well soon Matt… mostly because all the other cartoonists suck. Wait, is Nick still here? I meant everybody else EXCEPT Nick.
Pavel January 7th, 2009 at 4:57 pm
How could You! That was very selfish moove man!!!
Now we have to work instead of reading Your blog
But seriosly get well soon !!!
Purity January 7th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
It’s been a dancing on thin ice kind of year.
Avoid choreography and get well soon.
skeptic January 8th, 2009 at 9:41 am
This must be some kind of political statement. “Washington is broken and Obama and the liberal media are going to fix everything.” Just stick to drawing.
himanshu January 9th, 2009 at 6:00 am
well its a really sad thing to have ur right arm broken and when ur job rests on it only..but it was really something to write on the way u did.. in a hilarious way that too about a trauma!!
My heartiest sympathy
Get well soon
Furious Diaper · Freakishly tall cartoonist falls, yells, ‘bloody ‘ell, me arm is broke.’ March 2nd, 2009 at 5:04 am
[...] He writes a funny account of what happened here. [...]

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