Less is More

This submission's theme is an application of "K.I.S.S.": Keep It Simple, Stupid.

Below I decided to redraw some older ideas with more focus on the punchline and less on the art detail.

Compare these originals (drawn in '05) to these re-drawings:

Life as we / I know it (?)

Times Change, Grumpy Old People Don't

Before I was persuaded to move down south, I received my first glimpse of Winston-Salem, North Carolina via a visit to a friends' college recital. Since then, I hadn't quite thought about that time until I began cleaning out some old files and came across an old page from the Opinion section of the Winston-Salem Journal.  

 Only took a quick glimpse to remind me what made me spare this page from the trash:

Yes, despite drugs, lack of sex education and domestic dysfunction plaguing the youth in her city as much as binge drinking, Ms. Eleanor wants to reinstate Prohibition of all things. While I'm sure she isn't the only one who agrees on this stance, I doubt the WSJ delivers papers to hermit caves.

If she's still alive, I wonder what she think about gay marriage?

Photoshop

My first digitally colored cartoons since 1998 (yes, 1998)......and the 15 year wait was worth it.

Painting on a physical canvas is one thing, but "painting" on a digital canvas is another. Took a bit of adjustment, I'll say. 

Back with Vellum

With only a ink-unfriendly sketchbook on hand and a travel-heavy schedule, I finally got acquainted with vellum for the first time. Here's some examples:

Never thought I'd find it easier to trace over my penciling than to painstakingly erase any visible pencil marks on Photoshop.

From the Files of my Mind.....

WARNING: The following Cartoons contain massive in-jokes and self-reflection......

Sorry for the cut off. At the bottom right, he says "You're not the woman I married"

Originally drawn in 2010. This was inspired by an incident in a discussion group where a white German reasoned that she understood the shoes of black women because she was married to a black man. Yeah, exactly. T_T'

I'll leave the groom's reaction for your interpretation.

Don't we all have that one place that we've been working to get out of and never see again? Well, I do did. This was my exhale.

A WIN 4 Internets, A fail for our Future

Came across this image while searching for "someecards":

The answer sheet belonged to a male student. The teacher's notes read: "Who in their right mind would do this?" What's more obvious that her ignorance of internet vagina-punchers, is her seemingly selective ignorance towards innocent childhood logic.

If there was a perfect opportunity for preventive education against female harassment, this teacher missed it by many miles. This young male student's answer suggests that he's so innocent he could only imagine "sexual bullying" as the girl version of being punched in the testicles. The teacher could've used this time to explain "sexual bullying" and how it differed from the bullying as the young student understood it, thus influencing the way he treated girls as well as his view toward women as he matured to Manhood.

Instead, she ridicules him.