New Yorker Cartoon, Unpublished, 2015
Terrific cartoonist. Brilliant humorist. Funny guy.
Also, my pal — at least most of the time. (Creators and publishers have differing points of view on occasion.)
I’ve loved his work since I met him and his wacky alternative comic Too Much Coffee Man at the 1993 San Diego Comic Con. (Also, I drink too much coffee.)
One of the many things I will miss about Comic Con in 2020 is rummaging through his originals, printed and unpublished alike. I find many of them funny as hell.
But you can buy some on-line. And they are terrific deals as far as I’m concerned.
I love gags that apply specific word choices as a chief component of the humor. To me, there is absolutely nothing that would make the cartoon funnier than “per se.”
But, maybe that’s just me.
The National Cartoonists Society would be poised for their annual awards event this month if it wasn’t for the COVID pandemic, so it’s a good week to celebrate cartoons.
See you again on Thursday with an example from the late great Gahan Wilson.
