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Religion Cartoon 2481

WAIT. There is one New Testament figure you can make fun of: St. Peter at the Pearly Gates.

It must be rather a mob scene every day with only him up there checking everyone in. Are there express lanes?

 

 

Cannibal Cartoon 4805
Do missionaries have a sense of humor? When dealing with cannibals, I would think a sense of humor would be important. I know if I were about to be eaten by cannibals, I'd try to disarm them with jokes. I don't think throwing Bible quotes at them would do much good. Maybe if you offered them an alternative to missionary meat. Maybe pizza.
Food Cartoon 6142

Hmmm. Is this politically incorrect? Change it to lions. Lions don't have a political action committee . . . not yet at any rate.

Pizza? It must be time for lunch.

 

A bit more about not needing art talent to be a cartoonist. In college I took a two credit art course and flunked it. My professor said all of my proportions were off--you might notice that my character's noses are drawn in proportion to my character's feet. "Picasso's proportions were off," I said to my professor "You're not Picasso," he replied. Yeah, but I bet more of my work appears on refrigerator doors, than his.

One of the most successful cartoonists in Oregon, my home state, is John Callahan, a quadriplegic. His art work is awful and looks like it's drawn by a . . . . well, by a quadriplegic. However, his ideas are good and his work has appeared in most major magazines. His autobiography, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot, is a must read for anyone interested in cartooning.

The most frequent question most cartoonists are asked: "Do you draw for the New Yorker?" "Of course," I always reply "They, just never had the good sense to buy any of my work." Hundreds of other magazines, have, though.

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