Update From the Hard Shoulder…

January

First off, a heartfelt thanks for the kind wishes both on and off the blog. My email box was chock full of nice messages this week, as opposed to the usual rabid, invective-filled suggestions for exciting, creative and contortive things I should be doing with myself. I am back in the office putting together my Pulitzer entry, and with a bit of luck – and a green light from Doctor Lefkowitz, I should be physically able to draw my cartoons again starting Monday.

Murphy’s Law being what it is, I have been missing out on some major things to editorialize on (why couldn’t I have slipped on the ice in a traditionally slow news month, like August?) But I can sleep well knowing the world will be just as messed up on Monday morning when I crank up my trusty old pencil sharpener once more.

I’ll see you then!

This entry was posted on Friday, January 9th, 2009 at 1:16 pm by Matt Davies.
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5 Responses to “Update From the Hard Shoulder…”

Topgunner January 9th, 2009 at 9:54 pm
Thank Goodness. I can’t tell you how much I’ve missed the opportunity to post my inane (and sometimes insane) comments. Plus, I haven’t had anyone tell me what to think since you’ve broken your arm.
DebS January 10th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Matt,

I’m so happy to hear the good news – you’re on the mend. Yeah, I still need that daily fix I get from your cartoons, but I’ve been revisiting old ones till you’re up to par.

So you choose your own Pulitzer entries? Didn’t know it worked that way.

Matt, if you’d slipped on ice in August!!??
Matt Davies January 11th, 2009 at 9:16 am
Pulitzer Prize is awarded for a portfolio of twenty published cartoons. The portfolio can be submitted by anyone (in fact, anyone reading this could compile twenty of my cartoons, fill out the form and “nominate” me for a Pulitzer, believe it or not.) But I have my own strong feelings about which twenty cartoons of mine best represent me. Once a winner is announced, The twenty cartoons in that winning entry are then pored over, and over-analyzed by many people, and it’s best to make sure you can comfortably stand behind each one – should you be the lucky SOB who wins. I know this from experience. When I won in 2004, I was quite surprised by the attention my cartoons received. Naivety on my part I’m sure.
Matt Davies January 11th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Oh and “ice in August..?” I broke my clavicle, not my funny bone.
Toaster January 11th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I can’t think of many bone injuries more painful or incapacitating that a broken shoulder. Except, perhaps, a broken hip requiring one of those bed-confinement pulley systems to keep it stabilized.

Sorry to hear of your misfortune. I hope you’re at least enjoying the codeine/morphine and heal shortly. Are you going to require physical therapy after the bone is healed as well?

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