Roughs, Volume 236

Most of these roughs were created for the Fredericksburg Advance on a story about a traffic projection for a new Buc-ees in Stafford County. Basically, there’s going to be a huge increase in traffic when this new Buc-ees opens.

What’s a Buc-ees? I’ve never been to one but from my understanding, it’s kinda like a Wawa. Wait, some of you don’t know what Wawa is. It’s a gas station, but I think, again from my impression, Buc-ees is like a Wawa on crack. Maybe it’s like a truck stop/Wawa.

All the Stafford/Buc-ees roughs were drawn on Wednesday, May 29.

I’ve been drawing one cartoon a week for the Advance since October of last year. Martin, my editor, asked me a few weeks ago if I’d like to start doing it once a week. I said sure and he was going to get approval from the board or something like that. I was like, “There’s a board?” I didn’t know if or when we were going to start doing it weekly…but I found out Tuesday night. I told my editor I was traveling this week but I wanted to get started now. Let’s do it.

I wasn’t crazy about this one.

This one kinda worked and my editor loved it but it’s not entirely accurate. While Buc-ees wants to open this store and they have donated money to Virginia’s governor’s Super-Pac (Glenn Youngkin, a Republican lying gaslighter), they were honest about the traffic projection. It’s Stafford County that wants to blow it off, approve this store, and worry about the traffic later. That’s how they built everything in the Fredericksburg area. At this very moment, someone’s cursing traffic at Central Park. No, not Central Park in Manhattan. There’s a huge strip mall here that ripped the name off from New York City and whose look was inspired by Las Vegas…and no one has ever accused it of looking kinda tacky (insert eye roll here). The owners of Central Park believe sidewalks, neon you can see from Jupiter, and geese prevent the place from being a strip mall.

This didn’t go anywhere.

This one didn’t go anywhere either, but it was leading to something.

This is a cliché I’ve given myself limits on, and I had used it fairly recently… but I think clichés may be more suited for local cartoons. We didn’t go with it…thank god. Actually, I didn’t send it to my editor until he approved the next idea.

And this is the one we chose and I’m very happy with it. It became another unplanned mess of Easter eggs drawn on a Saturday afternoon in Huntsville, Alabama. Don’t expect this every week, Martin.

Here’s a little something I drew on Tuesday, May 28.

This one got a little convoluted. It was also drawn on May 28. I think I drew both of these in the evening.

This was also drawn on the evening of May 29 shortly after I heard another one of Alito’s stupid excuses. The final version was drawn on a train, in the Baltimore airport, and the Atlanta airport.

Which of these are your favorites?

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