I have a big carbon footprint when I make toast.
Posted on November 20, 2008 | by Donna Barstow
I don’t like white bread anymore. Only grainy or dark or bread of substance. I like bagels and English muffins and crumpets to be grainy, too!
I also don’t like toasters. Too slow.
Or toaster ovens. (What is the point of them again? I think I’m going to toss mine.)
Microwave is fast, but where’s the slightly burnt/toasted edges?
That leaves my stove. That’s right, I turn it all the way up to broil, put a piece of tin foil down and the bread, wait 30 sec, turn it over and put some butter on so it melts just right, and Bob’s your uncle! Honey is optional, along with the guilt.
And I thought Buster Brown only made shoes! Buster Brown Bread photo through Flickr Creative Commons by Derek Farr (Detroit Derek). Thanks Derek!
Three cats consider a hole.
Posted on November 20, 2008 | by Donna Barstow
“If you see any bigger than this, just pretend you don’t see them.”
I hope you understand this cartoon. So far, no editor has.
Well, it is a little ambiguous, my favorite place to be. Originally, I meant that they should pretend to ignore any people, and since everyone is bigger than that, that would mean they ignore everyone. Which they do, anyway!
Then I noticed the mousehole - or I drew it, forget which - and so maybe the cat is referring to big mice. And that, too, is typical of cats - to ignore any fight they can’t win.
I guess I shouldn’t go into the story of how I was running around Silver Lake very late the other night and saw a mouse for the first time. I see coyotes, skunks, raccoons regularly, and hear Great Horned Owls. But I have never seen a mouse. So tiny and sort of helpless, running in short bursts to avoid my thundering feet coming up. Read the rest
An important MySpace bulletin about Obama.
Posted on November 16, 2008 | by Donna Barstow
My favorite bulletin writer on MySpace, Jones, posted an alert today that I wanted to start a viral reaction to:
Date: Nov 16, 2008 11:07 AM
Subject: Obama is a Muslim
Body: I meant to get this out there a few weeks ago.
Sorry for the delay.
An early Christmas present for you!
Posted on November 14, 2008 | by Donna Barstow
“The Three Wise Men All Chip In for a Nice Satellite Dish”
Assignment for Illustration Friday: Wise.
Owl? Too obvious.
Wise, as in smartass? Too snarky.
So I went with the wisest of the wise, and I’m ready to start Christmas early, too!
Hey, maybe I should make this up as a card for Cafe Press! Or not. I’m loving the colors here. I don’t know whether the clothes are quite correct. Costumers needed on the set!
As far as the right hand on the first wise man, it’s backwards. But that meant good luck in the olden days.
How many minority and women cartoonists are in the LA Times?
Posted on November 11, 2008 | by Donna Barstow
I wrote the post below last February in my Griffith Park Blog. It’s a popular post, so I thought cartoon people would like to take a look at it here. I update it below.
I just couldn’t believe this article in the LA Times and many other papers today.
But for one day — this Sunday — nearly a dozen cartoonists of color will be drawing essentially the same comic strip, using irony to literally illustrate that point. In each strip, the artists will portray a white reader grousing about a minority-drawn strip, complaining that it’s a “Boondocks” rip-off and blaming it on “tokenism.” “It’s the one-minority rule,” says Lalo Alcaraz (”La Cucaracha”). “We’ve got one black guy and we’ve got one Latino. There’s not room for anything else.”
Let’s respect syndicates like King Features for not allowing registered and copyrighted characters and cartoons to be uploaded, I really do, but it makes my life as a comic reporter much harder. However, came across this blogger who has some very cool comic book covers for you to ogle and enjoy. Blondie is written and drawn by two men, bless their hearts.
