I drew editorial cartoons for a few years before I created Frazz, and to this day I blame our current polarized, facts-optional, obstinate political climate on the fact that not enough editors and readers saw things my way. Except for those moments, and by “moments” I mean “almost all the time,” when I realize the more likely reason I didn’t last as an editorial cartoonist was because I didn’t see things enough editors’ and readers’ way.
Frazz:10 hrs ·
9/16/2017
How quaint. Equifax gets hacked and some 143 million people’s most vital and personal information is stolen with nary a piece of paper being ruffled, and here I am with a joke about a shredder. Oh, well. Part of the charm of comics is how they’re just a little bit of an anachronism, right?
9/15/2017
And I don’t mean who saw what which way from any ideological or political viewpoint. That, in my mind, was the problem. Not the opposing viewpoint, but that there was any pre-existing viewpoint at all. I didn’t want to tell people what to think, and I sure as hell wasn’t interested in reinforcing what anybody already thought. I just wanted them to think a little more.
Oopsie.
Maybe. I’m not drawing editorial cartoons anymore, but neither are a whole lot of other people who were in that business then who did it the way I swore not to. But I am still drawing cartoons and trying to fool people into thinking every now and then. Like today. I think that last panel holds some pretty good advice. Even if, to get to it, my readers had to wade through half a week of intestinal material. Humor by peristalsis. With, I hope, a slightly more pleasant end product. Even if that sounds dangerously close to caring what people think.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] almost 7 years ago
FrazzYesterday at 3:18am ·
I drew editorial cartoons for a few years before I created Frazz, and to this day I blame our current polarized, facts-optional, obstinate political climate on the fact that not enough editors and readers saw things my way. Except for those moments, and by “moments” I mean “almost all the time,” when I realize the more likely reason I didn’t last as an editorial cartoonist was because I didn’t see things enough editors’ and readers’ way.
Frazz:10 hrs ·
9/16/2017
How quaint. Equifax gets hacked and some 143 million people’s most vital and personal information is stolen with nary a piece of paper being ruffled, and here I am with a joke about a shredder. Oh, well. Part of the charm of comics is how they’re just a little bit of an anachronism, right?
9/15/2017
And I don’t mean who saw what which way from any ideological or political viewpoint. That, in my mind, was the problem. Not the opposing viewpoint, but that there was any pre-existing viewpoint at all. I didn’t want to tell people what to think, and I sure as hell wasn’t interested in reinforcing what anybody already thought. I just wanted them to think a little more.
Oopsie.
Maybe. I’m not drawing editorial cartoons anymore, but neither are a whole lot of other people who were in that business then who did it the way I swore not to. But I am still drawing cartoons and trying to fool people into thinking every now and then. Like today. I think that last panel holds some pretty good advice. Even if, to get to it, my readers had to wade through half a week of intestinal material. Humor by peristalsis. With, I hope, a slightly more pleasant end product. Even if that sounds dangerously close to caring what people think.
LeftCoastKen Premium Member almost 7 years ago
One of the more obfuscated retorts I’ve seen in Frazz, and this one from a young girl. Impressive!