Survival skills

Adapt or die, amirite?

(A quick two-minute sketch. I'll probably redraw this at some point, but it's good enough for now.)

Amphibian Fight Song

No gag this week -- instead, here's a silly, quickly drawn illustration inspired by this essay I edited for The Revelator about sports teams using endangered species as their mascots (but not sharing appropriate conservation messages about those same species).

What other sports teams and mascots could be rebranded for conservation purposes? I've got a few ideas.

The Green Bay Packers could become the Green Bay Pachyderms.

The Chicago Cubs would change their name to the Chicago Grizzlies, while the Bulls would become the Chicago Tamaraws.

The members of the New York Yankees would soon play for the New York Yellowhammers or the Clubshells (a type of mussel).

The Boston Red Sox would have a lot of choices: the Boston Red Wolves, Redwings, Sockeyes...the possibilities are endless.

The New Orleans Saints could be the New Orleans Gopher Tortoises (a local species).

I could go on...but I think this is a good start!

Why I hate clothes shopping

Free hugs

This week's super-sketchy cartoon.

True story

Okay, this one isn't so much a gag as a nice piece of art/introspection, but I'm glad to finally get it posted.

True story: this was one of the first ideas that I sketched out when I started drawing cartoon ideas en masse back in 2012. At the time, I was stupidly using a ballpoint pen and filling up a notebook that had ivory-colored pages. Some of those ideas were both good and fairly well-drawn; I could have scanned and posted them right away except the ballpoint didn't create very good lines and I didn't know how to whiten the scans of those off-white pages.

Well, I finally figured out how to resolve that second problem, and this piece is about a ball-point pen, so up it goes -- just a few years after I drew/wrote it.

And there I wrote ten times more words than the drawing contains in order to explain the drawing. Remind me not to do that again!

Bite me

Live fast, die young, leave a confusing headstone.

Better or Worse?