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Step One in Becoming A Cartoonist: Fall on Your Head
The late Al Capp, creator of Li'l
Abner, said you need two qualities to be a
successful cartoonist. First, it helps to have
been dropped on your head as a small child. Wow.
If my parents had only known that they might not
have been so horrified when I was two and fell
down two flights of stairs and landed on my
head.
Because of that fall--or maybe despite that fall--I constantly have absurd thoughts racing through my head at ungodly speeds in beat up space vehicles. I can't help but think of funny stuff ... a real problem when you're trying to appear solemn at a funeral.
The second quality you need, according to Capp, is to have no desire, talent, or ability to do anything useful in life. That's me. Of all the things you can be in this country--a biologist, a doctor, a lawyer, a CPA, a dog walker, a porn star, and on and on--but, no, from the time I was eight I knew I wanted to be a cartoonist.
I think it's because anything can happen in a cartoon.
ANYTHING
How To Cartoon Cartoons That Can be seen
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Hunting Cartoon 5273: A game
warden saying to James Bond who's shot a man and
a deer, "I'm sorry, Mr. Bond, Mr. James Bond,
but a license to kill does not include hunting
deer out of season."
Physics Cartoon 7513: A man
with a clipboard standing in the middle of an
office where desks, chairs, files, etc. are
flying all over the place. "The bankruptcy sale
at the Entropy Institute was going
to more difficult than Dave thought it'd
be."
Relationship Cartoon 5171: An
amoeba thinks: "If I bifurcate tonight, will I
respect myself in the morning?"
Biology Cartoon 3674: A) A
scientist looking in a microscope shouts, "Look,
I've discovered a talking amoeba!" B) Something from the
microscope says, "2+2=4, 5-4=1,
9/3=3" C) The second scientist
smashes the microscope the other scientist,
horrified asks, "Why did you do
that!?" D) The second scientist says, "I
wanted to get it before it multiplied.
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