Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Those darn Gadiantons!

Sorry, no punch line here. It's just an illustration I did for my sister-in-law's Primary activity. It's kind of a long story, but they needed some Gadianton Robbers* as decorations. In the same party they had a bean bag toss through Goliath's head. Must've been some party!

Anyway, it's her birthday. So happy birthday from the Gadiantons!

*The Gadianton Robbers were some pretty nasty bad guys in The Book of Mormon.

Monday, September 29, 2008

Monday sketchbook: fertilizing the idea garden

So Christy and I were talking the other night, and I said something about "thinking outside the box." And she said, "Oh, I thought you were thinking in the can."

My dear wife gets full credit for this one.

Sunday, September 28, 2008

Those mansions above...

I was skimming through the blogosphere the other day, and I came across "Ode to the Owens", and there was one entry that caught my eye: one of her sons said that his ambition as a grownup was to wear a suit. That got me thinking, and I took it to another level. So, props to lisaowens and her progeny for the inspiration!

Saturday, September 27, 2008

Plop fly

I saw in the news that several baseball fans were caught trying to steal parts of the old Yankee Stadium following the final home game. Can't say that I blame them for trying, but I guess some of them got overly ambitious in their souvenir sampling. We didn't have that problem on University Avenue. Folks weren't lining up to take home chunks of old, nasty concrete!

Friday, September 26, 2008

Week on Wall Street

With all the hullabaloo over the markets, this old cartoon came to mind for some reason.

Thursday, September 25, 2008

Live from the Middle East


I get asked from time to time whether I ever do editorial cartoons. I've done a few, but not many. Here's one I did a few years ago. Change the location, and it may still be pertinent today!

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Make yourself at home


...and their third sister, Rockie.

Sometimes I like to hide little in-jokes within the drawings. In yesterday's strip, you could see the apartment number, 121, a reference to my old BYU strip. In this one,Rockie picks up a magazine in the last panel, an old copy of the Ensign. Just to compound the reference, there's a (really rough) drawing of a covered wagon on the cover. Of course, others do the same thing. Brian Crane (who is also LDS), the creator of the comic strip Pickles, often has Opal reading the Church magazines from time to time.