1/2 the Price 2/3 the Quality
A Jury of Your Real Peers
 Advertising on a Wedding Gown
Bad Plumbing Decisions
 Businesses Inconvenient to Everywhere
 Can I Declare You a Dependent on my Taxes?
CLEAR!
Congratulations, it's a Baby X
 Diversifying is the Only Way to Survive Today
Doc, I Can't Relate to My Equipment
 Don't Laugh at Yoga
Don't Worry, the 1st 30 Years are the Hardest
Extreme Sports for White Collar Workers
Forget to Pay the Gravity Bill Again?
Frankenstein's Two Left Feet
Gained a Few Minutes on an Hour Glass Figure
Gimme Your Cash & Validate My Parking
Goldilocks Goes Shopping
I Don't Care How Much You Interfaced
I Hate Your Working Vacations
I Have a Hard Time Unwinding
I Like The Way You Handle Responsibility
I Prefer Milk & Sugar on Berries, not Manure
I'm too Old to Hunt
In a Power Surge We Tapped into the CIA
 In Case of Emergency
It's an Old Injury
Meet My Significant Other
My Kingdom for a Horse? Are You Nuts?
Oh No, A Doctor With a Humongous Scalpel
Only Steal Things with Warranties
Paramedic, Take Him Back. He Can Still Work.
Part #AB5 is a Missile, but Part #AB6 is ...
Planned Obsolescence
Pre-Traumatic Stress Syndrome
 Remember, You Repaired it Last Time
Speed Limit Enforced by Farm Animals
 Speed Limit Enforced by Pot Holes
Still Having Problems Finding Day Care
Supply in Heaven Was Out of Harps
Swiss Army Knives for all Occasions
That's Not What's Meant By Safe Sex
 The Coffee Person is the Most Important Person
 The Drug's Only Side Effects Are ...
 The Feng Shui Must Be Off
There's Really No Need For Confusion
Turkey With No Experience Needs a Job
Uh Oh. The Fat Lady is About to Sing
Vampires With Outdoor Jobs
 We Don't Let Computes Mess Up
What Luck to Be on a Desert Island
What Rudolph Does The Rest of the Year
 Where is Global Warming When you Want it?
 Who Should I Call 1st? 911 or Tech Support?
Why Don't You Look at Me That Way?
Why Hell is Freezing Over
 Why Humpty Dumpty Can't Be Put Together
Writing for Crash Test Dummies
Your Customer # Identifies You as a Person
Your Stupidity is Directly Proportional to ...

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Cartoon Variations on
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Create your own highly targeted humor.

If you're looking for a highly targeted cartoon and you haven't found something suitable on the rest of my site, go through some of my Cartoon Variations on a Theme pages and think about changing the people, the props and or the settings of an existing cartoon.

They're examples of how it's possible for a cartoonist to make a living catering not to the general population, but to small audiences that range from agriculturists to zoologists, audiences that can't afford the big bucks a magazine like the New Yorker can.

Bike Cartoon 7089

It turns out agriculturists and zoologists often laugh at the exact same thing … or almost the exact same thing. I often do dozens of variations of the same gag idea, tweaking the wording, props, characters or settings, but keeping the essence of the joke the same.

One of the first times I did this was with a cartoon of a man showing up at the door with a motorcycle saying, “Mom. Meet my new significant other.”

Surfing Cartoon 7455

Right about that time a surfing magazine approached me, so I changed the bike to a surfboard. It sold. Then I changed the surfboard to a computer, and then, well, I hope you get the idea.

To date the most bizarre and most targeted one in this series is a woman with a prenuptial agreement under her arm.

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