Archive for January, 2009
Boomer-esque
Saturday, January 31st, 2009
Ville submitted by Clarissa Dickey
Free!
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009Here’s a cartoon I did for a magazine about 5 years ago that I never got paid for, ’cause the mag went under. I think in my entire 15-plus year I’ve been freelancing this is about the only job I ever got stiffed for — people are fundamentally honest, so all those who have been taught to get contracts: you’re never going to get that $400 from a small claims court 7 years from now anyway, so just trust in human goodness. Here, then, for the first time ever, my free cartoon (does it even make sense any more?).
Poncho Facebook
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Poncho has a Facebook page (no, sorry, Fish doesn’t, that would be silly, you can’t type with fins). He just hit 2000 friends! He’s way more popular than I am.
If you’d like to be Poncho’s Facebook friend go to Facebook and search for “Poncho Pooch” (middle name “Perry” not necessary).
John Glynn Birthday Card
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Like most members of the human race, my dashing and virile editor Mr. John Glynn had a birthday last year. This is the card I sent him.
Texas Or Bust
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Chicago Poncho host Lulu has been under a blanket of snow for the past while, but has finally been able to dig out a path to the post office and send Poncho on his way to his next (hopefully warmer) destination: Texas! Ranchers, hide your cattle!
Is Mooching A Hobby Or An Interest?
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009I need a new hobby? Any suggestions? Our family just got another cat? Could that somehow figure into the equation?
Archie
PONCHO:
Hobbies are very personal things. That’s why people ask other people about their hobbies when they’re trying to get to know them. A hobby choice can say a lot about a person. So it would be remiss of me to tell you what hobby you should take up. That said, I’m going to tell you a hobby you should take up. It’s called “tooth-pasting the cat.” I just came up with it recently, and it’s awesome. The cat hates it (check!) and as a bonus it punishes the cat owners for owning a cat, since bathing a cat is like a scene from Braveheart. It also gives them an appreciation for the comparative ease of dog-ownership. And the cat is left with a pleasant hint of mint.
Beavertons Crossing
Monday, January 19th, 2009
I’m travelling, and so are the Beavertons. Althouth it seems to be warm from their starting position. It’s minus 20 C back in my home base of Toronto. Anyway actually been to Hoover?
Professor Poncho
Saturday, January 17th, 2009
My young cousin called me up a few weeks ago. Apparently she wasn’t doing well in one of her Universtiy courses and went in to her prof’s office to talk about it, and was surprised to see many Pooch Cafe comic strips taped up around his desk area. “Hey, I know the guy who does that strip,” she said. “You better not be toying with me,” said the prof. “No, he’s my cousin. He’s not even that funny,” she answered. “Hey, if I get a drawing for you, will that help my grade?” The prof responded that he could in no way allow any kind of bribery to affect her marks, but if she really could get him a drawing he would be sincerely grateful.
In the name of education, this is what I sent him. Study hard, cuz!
Chew Wars
Thursday, January 15th, 2009
An upcoming panel from a Sunday. “Endless Shrimp” at Red Lobster?
Look-Alike
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Bubbles - submitted by Ken Jurman
I love the extra distance Ken has gone on this one! He’s actually had extreme plastic surgery done to his head in order to look just like the Chazz and solidify the illusion. That’s dedication. Apparently poor “Bubbles” embarrassing name (which luckily for “B” is spoken publically as infrequently as possible) was insisted upon by Daughter Dearest. Sigh, indeed, Ken (aka Chazz).
Pooch Fidelity
Sunday, January 11th, 2009
Here’s another Pooch movie poster riff from a side-panel of an upcoming Sunday.
Most Panels
Saturday, January 10th, 2009A little while back there was some talk of which strip had the maximum number of panels in it, and I posted a daily which I think had 9. But if we include Sundays this one is the sure-fire winner, clocking in at a healthy 15 panels.
Land Of OZ
Thursday, January 8th, 2009I’ve decided to skip the Harsh Canadian Winter for the next 3 months and go live in Melbourne, Australia. Everyone I know who I have told this to in person has given me a long, slow death-look I have not seen outside of a Charles Bronson movie. Hopefully my fans still think well of me, and if Poncho starts hopping around or mooching for eucalyptus over the next while, you’ll know why. Here, apropos of nothing, is a funny picture.
Poncho Chi-Town
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009CHICAGO
Here at last after one heck of a long blustery winter deluge, Poncho emerges safe and inquisitory, sticking his nose like G-Men of yore where it doesn’t belong around the streets of Chicago. Here, some amazing photograph work by super-blogger Lulu (Archie): The Hancock Building (second tallest in town); The Navy Pier Ferris Wheel; the historic Chicago Theater on Slate St.; with a nasty looking cat in front of the 100-year-old Art Institute; The “Chicago El”, a landmark elevated train; The Millennium Face - a face that moves, blinks, and in summer spits water (part of Millennium Park); The Sears Tower (now the tallest building in North America); the Water Tower (the only building to survive the Chicago fire of 1871); Cloudgate (mistakenly referred to as “The Bean”), also in Millennium Park; and lastly a beautiful shot of the city once again from Navy Pier. Stellar!
A Batty Exit
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009Here’s the latest thing I did for MAD mag.
Deck The Halls
Friday, January 2nd, 2009
Current Poncho host Lulu is all but snowed under in Chicago. They’re staying in and keeping warm till the weather becomes hospitable enough for some city shots. In the meantime she put Poncho to work decorating the tree. That’s the first time I’ve seen Poncho do anything resembling “work”, so she must be using trickery or bribery.