Kitty Corner

Did cat's ask this question before human's existed?

Bright Idea

Did you know that even in the primordial Time-Before-Time, a bright idea would be indicated by a light bulb?

IT'S TRUE!

Hirsute Pursuit

When all else fails, grow a big mustache!

The Best Medicine

Awful Joe

With some high-priced fancy coffee cafe on seemingly every corner these days, perhaps it's for something different -- why not start a chain of java shops that sell cheap, terrible dreck? Why spend a lot of money to get that caffeine jolt every morning? Not only could people save big bucks, but they'd also take a certain pride in their ability to down the noxious brew. AWFUL JOE, that's what the place could be called. I can imagine TV commercials with customers bragging about how they've just had the worst cup of coffee in the world AND got change back from their dollar. Maybe the could sell stale pastries too. Yeah, AWFUL JOE -- think about it!

Pedestrian Quandary

Just started scribbling with the pencil here, with a little digital clean-up.

Perhaps it's two in the morning, you're standing on the corner and the traffic light is red -- there is no traffic -- do you follow the rules and wait for the light to change green?

More Clown

Ink Shapes

Something in ink

Eye of the Clown

Starting today, I'll post a new drawing, cartoon, imbecilic scribbling or whatever I can fit onto a yellow "sticky note" (the 1.5" x 2" variety) every day this month.

Here we have the first:

Marvelously grotesque! I will call this Polyphemus the Clown. Perhaps he's smiling because he has just dined on some fine Greek cuisine?

Ejikatin'

We hope for a Utopian education system with kind, supportive and understanding teachers. Teachers who will guide children to some psychologically unblemished intellectual Nirvana. In reality, we do have some psychotic sadists out there who seem to take pleasure in making students miserable, tarnishing young minds with their special brand of insanity; filling days with humiliation and embarrassment; supplying traumatic memories that we get to revisit, over and over in our darkest nightmares.

But is this a bad thing? Once we reach adulthood, one of the greatest pleasures we have is to share tales of hideous school days with our friends and cohorts -- laughing at the ridiculousness of our lives!

Here's to you awful teachers! I salute you (as, I assume, you eternally rot in the lowest dungeon of hades...)!!

Eye Cloth

The other day, I had a dream that had something like this in it...

A floating cloth tube with a worried eye. Now, what could that mean? Will I use a sock to clean my glasses in the future??

While in Transit

I drew this while on the Metra train home

I imagine the fellow may be saying something like "Someone just told me life is like a big Yo-Yo, but I always thought it was more like a paddle-ball..."

Clownhorse

Haven't posted a disturbing clown drawing in a while. How about this?

Is that disturbing? I don't know -- Clownhorse -- It sounds kind of disturbing. Perhaps it marks the point where Dr. Moreau just took thing too far...

Lines

Was just scribbling. Perhaps this could be a joke carved into some ancient obelisk -- yeah there could be a really great line in there somewhere.

Future's Future

Freud Feud

DID YOU KNOW...

... That if you defeat your analyst in a wrestling match, that means your therapy is complete?

IT'S TRUE!!

Amber Waves of Pain

I call this one Man With The Formerly Happenin' Hair

Twisted Soda Bottle & Troglodyte

A crudely drawn offering today...

Yes, Valentine's Day was over a week ago, but I think for this fellow, every day is Valentine's Day!

Way Past Clunky

We always see robots from the future coming back to our time for various missions (typically either to save or destroy the human race) -- I usually run across at least two such robots a week while I'm doing my job downtown ( Easy to spot -- They're the only "people" who look like movie stars).

Well, anyway, why not have some clunky robot from the past travel forward to the present?

Weighty Matter

Overheard this while scurrying down Jackson blvd on Tuesday:

Got me to wondering -- Just how much does an E-Mail weigh??

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OH -- A friend of mine has started up a cool site dedicated to the Selective Horror Movie Buff -- You should check it out!! :

http://www.shadowsandscreams.com/

The New World Patriot

Just something that popped into my head...

Trees & Things

I've never been camping, but I'm sure there are all sorts of things going on out there in the woods that are way too interested in you.

Drawin' Stuff

A quick Doodle in the early morning

Let There Be Clouds

Pre-Walk

Just a quick drawing to start off the year...

Application Rejected

Well, I seem to be in a grim looking face phase here -- anyway, another quick pic.

I'm guessing this fellow was a candidate for Robin Hood's Merry Men, but didn't quite make the final cut.

Obsolescence Cheer

Holiday Spirit

That's Class

Now, I could call this " Just another quick doodle"...

...but I think I'll call it: The Barefoot Ballerina Awaits The Final Dance.

Yeah -- that sounds classy!

Strings Attached

Marie Marionette says: "We can only be our true selves through our puppets." Hey, maybe that's just plain creepy...

Life in the Flatline

Social Facade

To build our place in society, we create an illusion of who we are that we present to our friends, associates, co-workers etc. -- in many cases, different faces to different groups. Would society be improved if the absolute truth about each of us was known to everybody? Or is society built on what we all pretend to be, and would crumble without the multitude of carefully maintained lies?

Hack Track

On Friday, I was at the downtown Metra station, and figured it would be a good idea to add some cash to my CTA card, just in case I need to use a bus or Rapid Transit train. Just ahead of me at the CTA fare card machine, there was a rather scuzzy looking individual who, while stuffing bills in the pay slot, was literally coughing up a lung all over the machine (though he did seem to give special attention to the money slot). I got the impression that covering his mouth or redirecting his germs to a less public area were ideas completely alien to him.

I left the station without using (or getting near) the fare card machine.

Heavy Rolling

I often see heavy equipment rolling along with yellow & black diagonal stripe markings on various parts. Made me think about a machine that's only function was to be diagonal stripes.

Now that I'm thinking about heavy and rolling, my mind naturally veers off the tracks and thinks of Rock & Roll. And Rolls -- how about a bakery clearance shop called Rock Hard Rolls? Just a thought

Social Costs

Doodles On A Train

While sitting on the Metra train, drew these. Usually I would use a fine or Ultra-fine marker, but these were done using a gel pen.

Another Face

Just doodlin' away!

Face of Worry

Why, this fellow looks rather worried...

What can we guess, just by looking at his face? Well, I'd say he's the tie salesman in a mid-sized city's big department store. His name has to be Adelbert. He's worried that he will not make a sale today. He lives in a not too neatly kept studio apartment. When the middle-aged spinster across the hall goes on vacation, he feeds her cat.

When he was a kid, he had a pet frog named Edward; Edward had the habit of jumping out of his tank at night, and Adelbert would have to find him in the morning and put him back in his tank. One day instead of looking for Edward, who, as usual, escaped his enclosure, Adelbert decided to go out and play at the park with his friends. Edward wasn't found till three days later -- under the kitchen stove and dried up like a green raisin. Adelbert still feels guilty about it.

Tentacles For All Occasions

A quick little item I call The Man WithThe Cephalopod Ascot

More Buttons

When I was a kid, I'd get harassed by other students at school because I insisted on having my shirt buttoned all the way to the top!

Trash Clown

According to my calculations, this should be my 400th post here at The Meander Box ( Eh -- Les Quatre Cents Poteaux -- take that Truffaut!!).

Why not celebrate with a Disturbing Clown drawing??

Glue Tooth

I had this strange urge to draw a robot with teeth.

Hmmm -- lots of people have false teeth -- how about a person who has false everything except teeth?

CARING

Incredible Potato-Hulk

A quick drawing here...

As my potato adventures continue, various preparation suggestions have been proffered; one such was microwaving. I wondered just what effect would all that microwave radiation have on Mr. Potato Head??

Butterflies are Free (with 12oz beverage)

Low Cal Visuals

Hmmm, for some reason, images are not uploading ... Is the Secret Conspiracy Government trying to stop me from getting The Word out??? Boy, do I feel important! Then again, maybe that's just what They want me to think!!

Anyway, I was pondering the implications of photographically documenting every banana/banana peel I don't slip on...

Anyway, without images on this post, one won't be loading up one's brains with my sweet, yummy cartoons, so you won't have to worry about becoming a fat head!

Calling Mr. Potato Head

An almost instantaneously produced drawing -- Inspired by Real Life!!

Yes, until last week, I had never purchased a raw potato before. But do I need some imaginary fat-pantsed crumudgeon belittling me because of it?? NO!! Anyway, last week I did buy a bag of friendly tubers, with the intent of producing a perfectly baked potato. So far my experiments have resulted in several unsatisfactory specimens and one exploded spud.

Leftovers

Here's something I call Out of Work Horror Comicbook Host

Poor guy -- should have been around in the 1950s...

While I was thinking about turtles earlier this week, I came up with this

Shell Game

Felt like drawing something in color -- here we go: a BusinessTurtle

Non-Sitcom Life