Roughs, Volume 191

I had a very long day drawing most of these. A couple were drawn days earlier but the rest were drawn between 10 A.M. and 10 P.M. last Friday, July 22. My day wasn’t finished until after midnight. I’m a hard worker and someone. Appreciate me, people.

I think I drew this one last Monday (July 17) and it turned into this final version (which most of my clients published and even found its way into the Washington Post). I didn’t think this was the best of the three, but I love the robot’s reaction. I want to draw more robots until the robots take over and all robots will be drawn by robots.

This helped get me to the final version.

I’ve started drawing my Friday cartoon on Thursday evenings so I can spend all day Friday focused on CNN. This was drawn last Thursday evening and became this final version.

I woke up with this idea in my head Friday morning and didn’t use it. It’s not very good. I write cartoon ideas in my dreams all the time and I think they’re brilliant…until I wake up.

I made this an official cartoon a week after drawing the rough. Mark Hamill “liked” the 30-second video on Twitter.

I didn’t do anything with this.

So I was thinking of doing this…

And I was thinking of doing this (which an editor said was “too soon”), but instead, they were both killed by my doing…

…this cartoon which became this final version. I liked the Tony Bennett/Woke cartoon, but there was no need for two cartoons on him. I seriously considered shopping the woke version to another cartoonist (for free).

I don’t think I even sent this one to my editor, but I did send a completed version to my newspaper clients.

I was told “too soon” regarding Hiroshima. I’m kinda kidding…sort of. I would have drawn this for my clients if it wasn’t for another cartoon on Barbie. I’m Barbied-out at this point.

This didn’t go anywhere.

This also just spun its wheels in the dirt.

You do know that if another cartoonist had thought of this one, he wouldn’t have self-rejected it.

This is very similar to something I did before. I didn’t have any intention of using this cartoon, though I may do something with the human Bud Light bottle down the line. I think a couple of my Florida newspapers might like it. OK, I only have two Friday newspapers (but I used to have several).

I have a pet peeve about putting human faces on objects. I just think it comes off as something a political cartoonist would have done during the 1940s. Last year, I saw a face on an air conditioner. It bores me…unless the object is in bed.

And this became the choice for the CNN Opinion newsletter. It was the very last rough I drew for the day. And after a very long day of drawing roughs, I had to make the selected one a cartoon with a crowd scene. I’m stupid.

Which is your favorite?

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