Small biz

Beeep

Arm and...

Gaucho

Suitable

Small talk

This is the last of the not-previously-blogged cartoons in my picture pun collection. The blog is now complete, except for cartoons that I have not drawn yet, of course.

This one's for scientists

I didn't get this until it was explained to me, but if you have a scientific mind, you might get it. Speaking of not getting it, the thing I like about this drawing the most is it's the first cartoon I've drawn after finally figuring out how to work with transparencies and gradients in Photoshop. Adobe has some incredible software, but I find their manuals sometimes to be extremely hard to follow and understand. Thank you for letting me vent.

Two things that go together

This is the second to the last cartoon from my archives that I haven't posted on the blog before. After the next one, these summer "reruns" will be over.

I know this is cold

And this is August, but here it is anyway, from 2011 but not previously posted on this blog.

Ewwwwwwww

The story behind this one, from 2011, the year I started this series of word pun illos, is that Rob Krier, my colleague at the Union-Tribune who has contributed a few ideas for cartoons, suggested an idea to play off the Erie Canal. I didn't think I could do justice to the concept he relayed to me, but I kicked it around in my head and came up with this image, instead, which I obviously drew but which I still didn't care for much. Plus, it has an ick factor that probably should have prompted me, if I had had any sense at all, to omit it from my posted collection. But no, there it is, and in the interest of making this blog a comprehensive collection, I'm holding my nose as I post this here. Of course, I should also advise that the Q tip people are the first to tell you to never do this. I think the common expression, in fact, is that you should never stick anything smaller than your elbow into your ear canal. So consider yourself warned.

Half-eaten humor

Vino marketing gimmick

Another 2011 drawing. New to the blog.