Furious Diaper

Eric Allie

A bit inside baseball for more go here and here

I was working on this one when Obama gave his latest on Iran so I dropped it and drew Obama reacting slowly.  I could have stuck in the corner of this cartoon the reoccurring grinning applauding Obama groupie with the graying ponytail. I love that guy.

I abandoned this last night because I didn’t like it too much. Sarcasm doesn’t work very well. And initially I had planned on Sam standing in front of a wall of tv’ all droning on and on about MJ. That felt like too much work for too little pay-off. But looking at it today, I think it might work without the tv’s. Maybe.

Maybe they improved on it.

Another play on the Ash Borer = Grim reaper. The shadow play is another tired cartoonists trick. Slow week. Weak idea. So I just tried to make it look cool.

Eric Allie

1957. How twisted.

Eric Allie

Reminds me of my college dorm.

Eric Allie

Smiley face stickers as a warning. I had another idea for this- a Godfather reference: terrified guy pulls back the bed sheets and instead of a horse head, a smiley face.

I’d say I was ripped off, except I think it’s common nightmare.

Ugh. Multi panel cartoons are a pain in the ass and I end up doing two in a row.

Eric Allie

I rarely use photoshop special effects. When editorial cartoonists use them it often looks hokey and amateurish. And if it hadn’t been for a deadline that got pushed up 36 hours, I may have spent a lot of time trying to cross hatch the lighting effect before using the lens flare thingerMcBob which looks better than anything I would have been able to scratch out. Now, special effects are no substitute for good writing and drawing. The cool lighting doesn’t save this cartoon. What saves this cartoon is butt crack. Hi-larious and hi-brow.

Eric Allie

Evanston is going to get rid of mailboxes because no one uses them anymore. Story here.

Red Eye is a great show. Gutfeld rocks. And if you disagree with me you, sir, are worse than Hitler.

Eric Allie

Here’s the Trib’s editorial.

Eric Allie

This is just a goof on a local story.