Day 43

 

Again I felt like I wanted to explore how these letter characters relate with one another and what jobs they might have in their world. "I" had to work in a stereotypical girls diary today and the two "l"s and the "o" are actually "I"s buddys "A",'E", and "U" that were transformed into l.o.l by their shared mirth.
P.S I've been at sea for three days now and I'm starting to smell like it.

Day 42

 

 

I wanted to play with acronyms and their meaning. I spent an awfully long time trying to draw O.B.G.Y.N so it looked like a pregnant woman giving birth. I didn't want to add features or alter the letters, just to rotate and position them. It didn't really work. But it got me thinking about other acronym. This is Y.O.L.O or You Only Live Once. It's become a pretty big meme with today's youth. Also the little squares are the periods from the acronym. 

Day 41

 

This weeks theme is "Keep posting cartoons every day even though your at sea and Internet less". It's a theme I've tackled before and I feel up to the challenge. This time I feel slightly less guilty because the cartoons I am pre-uploading for this week are all cartoons I've drawn since beginning the ABC's project and with the intention of using them as blog filler while I am away at work. I chose this one to start the week because hopefully I am doing something similar right now. As you read this I am hopefully sunning myself somewhere in the Bahamas. Truthfully I am probably in my cabin battling sea sickness and drawing more cartoons. What can I say, I'm a man obsessed. 

Day 40

 

And the end of the week of hack cartoons ends with of course, a visual pun. Probably the thing that cartoons (myself included) do the most. Today I leave for another cruise ship but I leave you in the competent hands of Blogger and her mysterious postings....

Day 39

 

The ultimate of hack cartoon ideas: "The fill-in-your-own caption" cartoon. Probably the bedrock of modern cartooning and a brilliant ploy on the part of professional cartoonists. It's the self serve frozen yogurt stand of art. People are actually happy to come in and do your work for you. They get excited about it. It's really fun and there is a whole culture of cartoon caption submitting. Look how popular the New Yorker's cartoon caption contest is. It's unbelievable. So Day 39 is a caption contest. The winner will receive the original artwork, framed and delivered because I am, obviously, at the same level of the New Yorker and should hold myself to the same standards. Fire away!

Day 38

Today I tackled the deserted desert island. A favourite among cartoonists, especially in the 50's and 60's. I tried to stay true to my theme of letters and am happy with the results. This cartoon has some problems in that it isn't very polished. However, I am fully aware that it is a feat in and of itself to publish a new cartoon everyday and they all can't be winners.

Day 37

 

In the continuation of hack cartoon ideas I have my version of the therapist and client stereotype. I couldn't find any inspiration in the ABC's so I switched to inanimate objects mostly because I am awful at drawing cartoon people. This cartoon was heavily edited in microsoft paint because I had drawn in a worse punchline and then digitally erased it to add this one but then the expression on the chaise lounge didn't fit anymore so I altered that as well. Technology is cool and I can see why most modern panel cartoonists have switched to digital creation.