Roughs, Volume 223

I’m cutting a batch of roughs in half again. I think I drew 19 last week.

I really liked this cartoon. I chose this sheep cartoon over it because I thought it was more clever, but I still liked the Covfefe spill and planned to use it this week, so I spared it from last week’s blog. Well, other things got in the way and one of the trials has a date, so it’s probably time to let this go. I drew this on Friday, March 15.

I published this cartoon on Tuesday, March 19, and wrote in the blog that there were two other ideas that were much weirder. This is one of those.

This one might only be funny to me and other musicians. Wonderwall by Oasis is a song that’s often the first learned by newbie guitar players. If you attend an open mic, the odds are pretty good you’ll hear at least one bad rendition of Wonderwall. It’s also known for being very annoying.

In 2017, Danish police sent a busker home to practice after his performance of Wonderwall. In 2010, a busker in East Sussex was arrested after threatening a pub owner. Why did he threaten the pub owner? Because the owner asked him to stop or at least play something different after two hours of only playing Wonderwall and American Pie. Busking was his fallback after losing his job as an interrogator at Guantanamo. I’ll talk! I’ll talk!

I don’t even like the original version of Wonderwall.

This is the other “weirder” idea. I knew a lot of other cartoonists would be drawing Trump as a beggar and I was right. I really liked the Hobo Love in this cartoon. $5 is a good deal on Hobo Love.

Of course, this one became a real cartoon.

This was drawn last Friday, March 22. I had been trying to get Tom Selleck and reverse mortgages into a cartoon, but this one failed. But speaking of the J.G. Wentworth commercials…

I drew several of them last Friday.

I threw three of them at CNN but they didn’t like any of them.

Last year about this time, I was in the Gatlinburg area with some members of my family. While hanging with my older sister Robin and her niece Rene, I made a reference to this commercial when we were talking about how we don’t know anyone’s phone numbers anymore. I don’t know why we were talking about that, but I started singing the song. I know this and the Kars-4-Kids jingle and that’s about it. Sometimes, I forget my own number.

The last season of Curb Your Enthusiasm has Larry David’s annoying girlfriend singing the song and (spoiler alert) after he breaks up with her, he sings the song while dancing in his driveway as she’s pulling away.

What’s wrong with you for laughing at this? What’s wrong with me for drawing and making it a finished cartoon? I did a Zoom meeting yesterday with a bunch of other cartoonists and one spoke of her theory that cartoonists had brain injuries as children. Oh my god, I did crack my head open a lot when I was a kid.

This is the one CNN picked.

Which of these are your favorites?

There will be another Blog O’ Roughs this Friday.

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