Cartoon of a messy boy and his mom. The boy says, “If women like the rugged look, why do you make me take baths?”
Cartoon of a boy and a bully. The boy says, “You want to bully me too? Get in line! I have three other bullies before you.”
As a child, I learned bullies aren’t creative. If one discovers you’re ripe for being picked on, others will catch on. Even in a small town with a small school, this became obvious.
My coping skill was to draw a cartoon that would amuse a bully. It usually worked, and sometimes made a friend. Unfortunately, I also learned you should never draw an unflattering cartoon of the bully you’re drawing a cartoon for. That was my first lesson in marketing.
I drew this for K! Magazine.
Cartoon of a boy saying, “A big store like this and they don’t sell pet fire ants?”
The customer isn’t always right. I can’t imagine anyone wanting fire ants for pets. But stranger things have been claimed as pets, haven’t they?
I got this idea when my family drove by the Fire Ant Festival in Ashburn, Georgia. We were on our way to Florida, when we accidentally stumbled into this festival. I was relieved to find out pet fire ants weren’t for sale.