Single panel and gag cartoons are so accessible it's ridiculous. Everybody reads the comics!
The bulk of my cartoons appeared during a four-year stint at the weekly The Cooper Point Journal, where they seemed to cause universal dissent, disgust, or simply misdirected anger.
Weird thing is, the ones I liked the most just seemed to fall flat with most people. I tried to think of a good one to post as a sample, but I couldn't narrow it down. So, help yourself to a guided tour of Bullets Are Cheap.
Joe Bob Briggs, my knock-down, drag-out favorite social commentator and movie reviewer of Earth, published We Are The Weird for a number of years (I still have all my issues!) and used a few of my cartoons. Very thrilling. I must have plied that poor guy with one or two cartoons a week, for years!
Years later, I found an e-mail address for him and wrote, asking if the magazine ever started up again, and he wrote back pretty quick, telling me I was on the list for new subscribers and that he remembered me as the guy who used to send in cartoons every week. Isn't that spooky -- "Yeah, I remember you as the guy who couldn't take 'No!' for an answer." Actually, his rejections were very nice.
To lots of people, fish are very serious business, but somehow, I made an editor chuckle at Aquarium Fish Magazine. They published a few of my cartoons, but never paid me for one of them. For a while, I regularly sent them bills, but I never heard back. Good thing it's not paying the rent!
I attend an annual science fiction convention. The program guide is a really nice color affair, well printed and quite handsome. I am very glad they chose a couple of cartoons to appear in issues, particularly some of my favorites. It's some small justification for having my faves ignored by the overzealous, but humor-challenged, readership of the Journal.
