Caught in the Act

Three shots of me painting, at the gallery in Laguna Beach. Plus a peice in progress. I think these are the first pics ever, after all these years, of me making art. Caught in the act!

Cartoon - Not to Worry!

I drew this cartoon when I got two free tickets to the movies, but then I started thinking a bit neurotically who I'd ask to go, but I didn't stop thinking. I can ruin justabout anything by thinking. Interesting side-note: I'm watching Ken Burns' "The Civil War"documentary from 1991 on netflix, and for some reason, the music from the documentary has completly overpowered my lazy habitual negative speculating. So now I just have to watch out for the purpose-driven thinking, and I'll be enlightened. Yeah, okay, I'm crazy.
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Cartoon - Five Bucks

Gosh, that is all I need. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Happy Birthday to You

Happy birthday!

Cartoon - Pisa Pizzeria

More Leaning Tower of Pisa stuff here..Question: Do you think it is an obsession when you close your eyes and see the thing you are thinking about, behind your eyelids? I don't think so. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - April Idaho

Have a happy day, whatever this day is today. Are you really moving to Idaho? I think that is a swell idea. we'll all miss you terribly, but we also understand. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Happy Easter & Alien Invasion of Italy

I don't know about you, but when I think about Easter, I think about God, Jesus, rebirth, and an alliance of mighty aliens coming to Earth to straighten the Leaning Tower of Pisa. You know what I mean? Have a Happy Easter! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Morning Glory

Hello morning glory, how I love you. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Narrow and Job

Here's a two fer, fer all of you. Thank you all for visiting. I have many small cartoons that I should put up. I think the short BMs are very funny, many times I draw them and overlook them. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Absolutely

CM Evans, at large. Absolutely. Go read the online magazine I edit. Submit work.

Cartoon - Sometimes I

Speaking of sometimes, sometimes I post a cartoon with nothing to write about it, at all. But I just wrote something, didn't I? ARRARAGGGGH!  CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Doomed

True thing: the LA Times online yesterday had a big article about the phenomenon of "hurling" & "tossing" -- studying why we throw our cellphones or electronic devices. Pages and pages of thoughtful insight. Experts weighed in, quotes, quotes. A guy and a gal talked about how far they throw a phone in a coffee shop at each other. I guess a reporter was under a deadline, and they couldn't think of anything important or newsworthy to write about. Next from the LA Times: 'Why Paper Crumples', 'The History of Tying Double-Knots on Shoes and What That Says About Your Personality', and 'Why Some Folks Don't Like the Taste of Low-Salt Spam'. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Take It Up

Moral of this story is, if you see anyone hauling around a big rock, they are not up to any good. Especially if there are any birds around. You could probably cancel their big rock advantage, with a equally big rock of your own. Or I guess you could whip out a huge piece of paper. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Your Forgiveness

Someone told me that asking for forgiveness is okay, and they have no responsibility on a person's reaction to this request. It is enough to ask for forgiveness. If a person is going to be a jerk and not accept an amends, that is their problem, and how pitiful is that? CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - What

Have you seen my mind? I'll keep looking for it. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Nevermind

I took a trip to the dentist today. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Big Struggle

Life used to be a big struggle and I never knew exactly why, until I took it easier and realized that not doing something can be considered and action. Part of 'not doing' is to be aware of the moment, and how I occupy it, without excuses. Now I reside mostly in non-action, and I find I am more real than I was when I was trying to be someone or something. Because to be honest, when I was trying to be someone or something in the past, it was usually for others and not for me. This was because I didn't know who I was, or I was not being totally honest about what I wanted. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - In Charge

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Cartoon - Jack Update

Jack be nimble,
Jack be quick,
Jack jumps over
the candle-stick.

I don't know what it means, I really don't. Then I go a ruin it by looking it up. First mentioned in 1815, collected by James Orchard Halliwell. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13902. Secret meaning: The Ruination of the Universe through the misapplication of Technology. Just kidding. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - See?

fool (fl)

n.

1. One who is deficient in judgment, sense, or understanding.

2. One who acts unwisely on a given occasion: I was a fool to have quit my job.

3. One who has been tricked or made to appear ridiculous; a dupe: They made a fool of me by pretending I had won.

4. Informal A person with a talent or enthusiasm for a certain activity: a dancing fool; a fool for skiing.

5. A member of a royal or noble household who provided entertainment, as with jokes or antics; a jester.

6. One who subverts convention or orthodoxy or varies from social conformity in order to reveal spiritual or moral truth: a holy fool.

7. A dessert made of stewed or puréed fruit mixed with cream or custard and served cold.

8. Archaic A mentally deficient person; an idiot.

The Free Dictonary

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Cartoon - In My Head

I sure do like working with the things that I think in my head. Someone today wondered, "Who are we, if we are not our mind and our thoughts?" And I know, fundamentally, we are what we think -- all that we are, arises from our thoughts. But there are a few other very subtle things operating in this equation. It is interesting how certain things emanate, or are inherent in the having of 'mind', or having thought actions. I mean, if you do have a mind, and you do have thoughts, what is behind this? What is mind, or thought, intrinsically? If your mind is real, where does it come from, and where does it go? Can you take a picture of it, or draw it on a map for me? I keep on ending up in the moment, which is the best part of consciousness, for me. And I now focus on awareness, and action, rather than mind and thought. And I like ice-cream. And I think I could be a movie-star, still. CM Evans Cartoons

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Idiot

Middle English, from Anglo-French ydiote, from Latin idiota ignorant person, from Greek idiōtēs one in a private station, layman, ignorant person, from idios one's own, private; akin to Latin suus one's own — more at suicide.

First Known Use: 14th century

Cartoon - Just Kidding

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Cartoons - Diagram #1 and #2

आप देख सकते हैं कि वहाँ दो आरेख यहाँ हैं, और वे करने के लिए समझाने का प्रयास - या कम से कम घेरना, कुछ सांस्कृतिक और प्रासंगिक वास्तविकताओं. मैं # 2 पर वोट देते हैं. रोटी की ओर क्या आप मक्खन करते हैं?  

You can see that there are two diagrams here, and they attempt to explain -- or at least encircle, certain cultural and contextual realities. I vote on #2. What side of the bread do you butter? CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Romantic

Hello there, can I slip you this little note? Well, here it is. It is about how I feel with you. I'll just stand over here, quietly, while you read it, and think about me and my note. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Flowchart

Whenever I feel uneasy about something, I can always sum it up, and then fix it, with a flowchart. Take this one, for instance. Problem mostly solved. Now onto other things: The Pope keeps calling me and he does not seem to comprehend that I am not on "Vatican Time" which is +2 GMT, I think. Quality problems, people around me, they say. But I don't want to be a cardinal. Yes, I was confirmed. No, I do not want to be a cardinal. Please Mr. Pope. Howsabout a cartoon, or a flowchart? CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Tricky Bastard

Whenever you meet someone who is genuinely likable, but have the "tricky bastard thing" going on, and they smile at you, run for your life. Or -- go shopping with them. Because if you can go shopping with them, or to the movies, and you have a good time, then hell -- what relationship does not have problems? CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Before

I have a bunch of notes here, but they are all very offensive, so I won't post them. I do have some more offensive cartoons, I will post those over the next few days. One of my favorite pastimes is to sit in public places, and draw cartoons from the disjointed conversations I overhear. That reminds me, during the summer I volunteered time to sit in a gallery in Laguna Beach, next door was a tattoo parlor. Here is the conversation I heard over and over again, all day long:

DRUNK TOURIST #1: Look! A Tattoo parlor. Let's get a tattoo!

DRUNK TOURIST #2: Dude! Are you serious?

DRUNK TOURIST #1: HA HA HAH. Nevermind!

I hope you have a lovely weekend, if you go for having weekends. I might have a weekend, this weekend. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Parade

When I'm bored, and I want to try and figure out things, sometimes I resort to puzzling over Leonard Cohen lyrics. In the song "The Future", he sings:

The blizzard, the blizzard of the world
has crossed the threshold
and it has overturned
the order of the soul

Wow. I can get the "...blizzard of the world..." concept -- but what is "...the order of the soul..."? I wanna know about the order of the soul. Sorry, the Order of the Soul. Or, how the Soul is Ordered. But I looked around, even in real books that talk about stuff like that, and no luck. Lots of talk about souls, and kinds of souls, from all kinds of perspectives & traditions, but no discussion on order.

Oh, well. Some smart person reading this could give me a hint. I'm sure Leonard is sick to death on trying to explain what he was singing about. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Broke

I think the past few years has been tough on a lot of people, and things are getting better, too. On the bright side, there is a bright side, because if there was only a dark side, we'd have no concept of a bright side. You can tell that to someone now, when they feel blue. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Richard III

They were looking for King Richard III of England, because they always wondered what became of him. And now they found him. And then he got fined for illegal parking. But he does HAVE A RESERVED SPACE. Go ahead -- laugh! What other English monarch from the middle ages has their own car-park space? I bet you Parliament or the Queen will sort the rest of the stuff out. Hail King Richard! Fie on you, Shakespeare -- mouthpiece of the upstart Tudors! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Invest / Reduce

I has a dream last night, I remember it because it was immediately before the alarm went off. In my dream I was in Thailand, back in about 1975, deep in the bush. I have never been to Thailand, which is interesting because the dream was so vivid. It was early in the morning and it had just rained, the river had flooded its banks. There was not a dry place to stand on for miles and miles under swaying trees and deathless jungle. Nearby was some kind of trading post on stilts, blaring out American disco. When I heard that, I turned and saw Andy Gibb wading through the tea colored water with a pretty guide. He was wearing a loose grey scarf and khaki adventure shorts, and he was frankly amazed & amused at the same time, hearing his music being played in the middle of the Thai jungle right after the river had flooded. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Department

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Cartoon - Fish for Survival

I hate it when God decides to drop a fishing trawler on my head, when I'm lost on purpose, wandering around the desert like an idiot. CM Evans Cartoons.

Cartoon - BM Instant Instant

Hello, how I have missed you. How are you? Here is some feedback for you instantly, I don't know if you a ready for it, but here it comes instantly. If you want more, I'm not selling, I'm just giving it away for free until we are all exhausted. Or you could buy one of my t-shirts. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Ha ha ha / Random Button

Sometimes I go to my cartoon website and I click on the 'Random' button for a few minutes or hours, to see what comes up. You never know what might come up. Similarly, I will hit the 'Random' button in my brain and keep typing.Yes, I am in love with you, but I see we can never be together. It must have been four years since they had that fixed right. No, it depends on how far the ends are aligned with true North, not magnetic North. On that side of the street. Every day they show up at about 5 PM and make a lot of noise. What? I'm as meek as a Lamb, and as strong as a Lion. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - My Sweetness

Today is like a big house, full of fun -- half of America has the flu. The second half of America will soon have the flu. Does writing these things, make these things true? Or were they true all along? Try and see the hilarity of life. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Not Every

I have a friend whose cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker, and he said that once you get your work in The New Yorker, then you have to get your work into The New Yorker again. I've been lucky to get my work into places like 'Bottom's Outhouse Review', 'The Smallish Little Literary Quarterly Nobody Notices, But Is Really Brilliant', 'Porcupine Hill Gazette', and even 'McSweeney's Quarterly Concern', twice. Plans for this year: more cartoons. That said, I logged onto my facebook account after not logging onto it for about four months, and I was told 3 people 'unfriended' me. Frankly, instead of being sad or upset, I found it quite exhilarating to be 'unfriended' on facebook. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Please Avoid Looking at this Cartoon

Nothing to see here folks! Or, I was thinking about Star Wars, and the Death Star. Hmmm. The Death Star is the size of a small moon. It shoots this beam and blows up the planet Alderaan, poof! You gotta figure the planet is way bigger than the Death Star -- our Moon, for instance, has approximately 1/4 Earth's diameter, 1/50 Earth's volume, and 1/80 Earth's mass. So the Death Star related to Alderaan can't be more than 2 percent of the planets mass. So that is a pretty huge amount of energy for the Death Star to have, however you want to explain it, to be able to vaporize a planet with almost 100% more mass than the Death Star. And the Death Star totally annihilates Alderaan from very far away, because the Death Star does not get pelted with any debris, so the power source in the Death Star that produces this beam is all the greater in intensity.  That is a lot of energy to be controlling, I wonder how they do it? I bet there were quite a few accidents before they got the vaporizing of planets just right. Where did they test it? If the Empire is so technologically capable, and the Death Star is so fabulously expensive and complex, why wouldn't they use more conventional means to dominate the Empire? It is a movie, I know. But you gotta wonder. Thus I have lost my mind. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Cranes

Happy New Year to all of us, I was out of town, but now I am back. Looking forward to 2013, and all the crazy things it can bring. I hope you have a good year too. By the way, I folded 35 cranes and I got everything I was wishing for, and how. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Artificial

I saw someone doing this. They were going to pile the presents on the bottom half, and make some kind of lamp with the top half. They couldn't figure out why their kids started crying. Then, finally, they swore and said,  "...if people wanted to have one complete Christmas Tree in one room, like everybody else does, and never try to do things differently, then fine." Ho ho ho ho! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Catch Me a Santa

We got a few more days to go before Christmas, if the world does not end tomorrow. Being that I counted on things to keep going, tomorrow should be a big shopping day for me, to see if I can get any "END OF THE WORLD" discounts. Here's a cartoon I drew back in the day, we had a cat that got her tail stuck on a flytrap on Christmas Eve at about 2 O'clock in the morning, and that is where I go this idea from. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Way Bigger

Indeed, they do turn out that way, often. Who ever bought a Christmas Tree, and it turned out to be TOO SMALL? CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Twinkle Monkey

I've been getting many gag ideas from reading news headlines. I was trying to get hilarious ideas from reading the Roman historian Livy, but he wasn't funny enough, unless you're keen on jokes about his outward seeming opposition of any sort of sedation to restore Rome to a Republic, Livy's supernatural expressions of historical events, or his relevant advocacy of ancient morality. LOL! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - MAGIC METAL BALL

Hey I wanted to submit some more magic cartoons to the UK publication that will be coming out with a 'magic' theme edition, but the deadline is closed. So here is one more drawing* that crossed my brain**. YOU CAN DO MAGIC TOO!^ CM Evans Cartoons





* Ningún animal fue dañado en la construcción de este dibujo animado

** Mein Geist ist voller zerbrochener Teetassen und alter Käse 

 ^ Gamle psykiatere er ikke så aktiv som gamle bygningsarbejdere

Cartoon - Lookin' Fer More

I first drew this cartoon with the fella holding the two pieces of paper over his head. But I've been drawing a lot of cartoons with 'arms up in the air', so now he's dragging the paper. Two years ago I repetitively drew cartoons of cars going off cliffs. What I really would like, is to work in more bowling balls, squirrels, fire, and taffy into my humor. Wait, nix the bowling balls. Possibly this is a New Years Resolution.

 La primera vez que hizo este dibujo animado con el chico sosteniendo las dos hojas de papel sobre su cabeza. Pero he estado dibujando un montón de dibujos animados con "brazos en el aire", por lo que ahora se está arrastrando el papel. Hace dos años me repetitiva dibujó caricaturas de los coches pasando por los acantilados. Lo que realmente me gusta, es trabajar en las bolas de bowling más, ardillas, fuego y chicloso en mi humor. Espera, nix las bolas de bowling. Posiblemente se trata de una Resolución de Año Nuevo

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