Cartoon - Why I

Oh isn't it simple why we decide to like, or not like one another. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Nerf Dart

Back to regular Tuesday/ Thursday updates. The writing muse is gone. The cartoons clamor for contentment. Nerf guns and projectiles have been liberally employed in the Opium Magazine Literary Death Matches. I was partially responsible for this, encouraging mayhem and chaos (in a fun way) whenever I can. But you must be careful not to go too far. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Fred the Alien

I'm back at updating the cartoon website after a few months of not doing much updating, I was writing, but now the muse has apparently gone off to New Jersey, or somewhere like that. I have no idea when she will be coming back. As far as I know, there is no muse for cartooning, and I have lots of them laying here and there, like a huge amount of autumn leaves. Here's a poignant little cartoon that will be going out in the next Opium Magazine, I'm sure you will appreciate it. And hey! We're getting close to 1,000,000 hits on the site. I know it took about 8 years to get there, and other sites get 1,000,000 hits a day, but thanks anyways. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Memorial

I gotta get me down to Memphis some day soon. I could take the train. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Quiz

Cartoon - Mike Hill

Cartoon - Juan the Onion I

Cartoon - Burt Buys

We hit the Tuesday update. here, today, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, rain, after snow, snow, snow, snow, and snow. Tomorrow, one of my favorite days, April 1. Whoop whoo! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Headless Letterman

I missed the Tuesday update -- I've been writing up a storm over at my writing blog Giganticjet. Some good stuff is up there. This lopsided creative path happens in one direction or the other, from time to time -- but not often. Some Bodhidharma-Taoist-Zen muse really got me in a headlock, and away I went. I've also been planning a new Literary/Art website called Intercontinental Paper Airplane, with my friend Jason, who hosts CM EVANS CARTOONS. I don't know when we'll go live, but soon, I hope. It is about time for me to run my own webzine, after helping, contributing, and editing so many venues over the years. I also found out McSweeney's is coming out with the big cartoon book with 200+ illustrations from famous (and not so famous) humorists, it is going to press as I write this. And I'm in it. A few weeks ago I was starting to get bummed that not much was happening, but now I'm feeling better -- the wheels were turning all by themselves. As for today's update -- I don't know what it truly signifies. But I liked it when I drew it. I hope you like it. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Question

This cartoon was floating around in my files, I dug it out and I liked it. I can't believe I can remember every single cartoon and drawing I've ever done. When it comes to my writing, or poetry, not so much. Which is nice, to be surprised from time to time somewhere in my creative output. Probably the reason I can remember every cartoon I've ever drawn is because the style has never changed much since day one, going back to about 1982. Yeah, one day in 1982, sitting in the back of the English Lit classroom, bored, with a blue pen and some pilfered copy paper -- that is where it all began. If you find that hard to believe, ask Evan. He'll tell you. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Yellow

I'd like to write something specific for this cartoon, other than it is yellow, made of post-its, plus black magic-marker. And I just did it today. But I don't feel like saying anything else, because sometimes talking about the horizontal positioning verses vertical tension, and the overblown yellowness of it, calculated to bother people -- plus how puerile the first part of it, is. Instead, I'll print the following 2 stories:

1.

Chung Tzu Says Do Something Nice - or - How So

"Do something nice, for a change." says Chung Tzu.

I clean the stove. I put the burner grates in the dishwasher, and set the washer on "Pot Scrub".

"Nice try." says Chung Tzu.

"How so?" I shoot back.

"How so, indeed!" yells Chung Tzu.

2.

Chung Tzu and Stove Parts

Chung Tzu comes over with his friend, Stove Parts. They both look at the glistening, put together stove that I cleaned.

"What do you think?" asks Chung Tzu.

"Oh, I think he did a good job." says Stove Parts.

"Was he nice when he did it?"

"Nice enough, I think. But he could work on being nicer."

"Well, okay, kid." says Chung Tzu. "You shouldn't argue with an expert. You passed."

"Thanks so much" I say.

"But don't forget I'm watching you!" says Chung Tzu as he and Stove Parts leave.

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Cartoon - Ticket

I keep getting a ticket, and I keep missing the Infinity Express. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Cocktail

I'm back. Did anyone notice I was gone? I was away longer than I thought, and I missed posting to the site. I did keep updating the writing website. I've got a bunch of new work I did for Todd, he has a new edition of Opium Magazine .print coming out soon. I hope he uses some of it. Twice weekly updates, starting again, now. No, I'm serious, not kidding. Back to work. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon Redux - Up to no Good

Last of the "Cartoon Redux" cycle, here, new work coming, starting on Thursday. Made it through the Holidays. What more can I say? CM Evans Cartoons