Cartoon - Psycho Christmas Tree

Last xmas themed cartoon for this year. I promise not to go all psycho on you this Holiday Season, but I can't say that FOR MY CHRISTMAS TREE!!!! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon Redux - I Catch Me a Santa

Whoooo - don't even attempt to try this at home -- "I Catch Me a Santa". Poor Santa! But where can I get me a Sticky-Tree? Posted last year, on December 20th. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Christmas Smaller

Going all out here for the Christmas Holiday -- Christmas Smaller...if only we could -- it seems Christmas gets bigger and bigger every year in the Buying & Having department & smaller and smaller in the Spirit of Giving. But a hearty "Ho Ho Ho" to all of you, as a certain Fat Man says! And if all of this makes you grumpy, have an eggnog with extra brandy, on me.* CM Evans Cartoons

* My daughter. 7, asked me what is in Eggnog? I said, simple - Eggs and Nogs. What are Nogs? She asked. That is the question, I responded.

Cartoon Redux - You Can Never Start Too Early

Ha ha! You Can Never Start Too Early -- one of my favorite Christmas theme cartoons. I was getting ready to post it, but I see it is already in the archives. So here it is -- watch out for galloping psycho Christmas Trees...and their owners! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Xmas in my Coffee

Blah blah blah blah, yack yack yack, comment comment (peeps) comment comment, talk talk talk, comment xmas comment, yack yack, blah, yack -- blah blah, something something, yadda yada yadda, type type type type (pinner dude) type, two cents two cents, hork hork hork hork hork, blah blah blah. Comment comment comment, talk yack; comment yuck yuck yuck, whoo whoo, comment. Blah blah blah blah, yack yack yack, oink, comment, keep it real, comment comment comment, talk (hooptie) talk talk, comment comment...blah blah blah, yack yack yuckkity yack, comment comment comment comment, talk talk talk, comment comment....I luv coffee, but not Xmas Coffee. CM Evans Cartoons

Comic News - Grinding on at the Daily Grind

The Daily Grind - Iron Man Challenge continues....grinding on and on and on. Talk about fortitude! I wonder when it will end? I give it at least one more year. Even two. That's a helluva lot of work for 1,120 bucks. But they say a real cartoonist will constantly crank out work, whether they get published or not. Which in my opinion, is true. At least it was for me. Some of my favorites: Bela - YOUNGADVENTUREFRIENDS, Joseph - Say Uncle Comics, Jennie - The Devil's Panties

Cartoon - Rob's Other Eye

Thursday's cartoon update -- Rob's Other Eye -- is it Thursday already? This week shot by pretty fast for some reason. I gotta get going on my Christmas shopping. If you have all your shopping done by now, I hate you. CM Evans Cartoons

Link Added - Helio Mag

You can download Helio Mag as a PDF -- and then it will burn your face off. Check it out. Art, music, writing, commentary & well, much more. Links section

Cartoon Redux - Cement Angel

I'm sifting through the 800 plus cartoons I've posted to CM Evans Cartoons, and from time to time I'll throw an oldie-but-goody for you to see. Posted back in 2003, number 348, this cartoon has entertained me mightily. Cement Angel

Look At This & Bottle Houses Galore

Look At This, a pointer blog that I visit every day, has an entry showing a bottle house, looks like in Russia. I've seen two bottle houses in my travels -- one is located in the ghost town of Rhyolite, in Nevada. The other one is in, of all places, Knott's Berry Farm Amusement Park, in Buena Park, CA. See the picture above -- I got it from a funny Swedish website that has information and pictures of the park. As for the house in Rhyolite (still standing, with a new roof), it was built by Tom Kelly in about 1906. Here is a website with info, history and pictures of the "Tom Kelly Bottle House". I hear that it was well used, several generations of kids were raised there. It also has an interesting rock garden/ cement sculpture garden of miniature houses & buildings. While we are at it, here is a website that has links to a whole bunch of bottle houses all over the United States, including what it claims to be the first bottle house, built in Tonopah, Nevada in 1902.

More info on the ghost town of Rhyolite, here. A place worth visiting, if you get out there --plus Death Valley is about an hour away, a must see, too.

Lastly, on a side note: Knott's Berry Farm also has a smallish barrel house, next to Boot Hill. But amazingly, I can't find any good pics of this.

Link Added - ordinary things - Ozge Samanci

Via OnlineComics.net, I found this cartoon website called ordinary things, by Ozge Samanci, a site that has work that is actually not that ordinary -- not many color cartoon websites take my interest, but I enjoyed this person's technique. Plus he (or she) can draw too, which you see in cartooning less and less of, nowadays. Here are a few more that I liked -- coffee table, masculine, chair, street dog. Links section

Cartoon - Dance Rioters

Watch out for those disaffected drama students -- I was one once...they will stop at nothing & indeed will laugh gleefully when their plan works to shake up the savage discord and massive cacophony of a downtown dance riot! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - BM - Bubbles n Saws

I drew these sorta shaky & trippy BMs a few weeks ago when I was high on vicodin due in part to my newly busted wrist. Wrist is now healing just fine, with about 5 screws, a plate, some wire, and a big pin inserted. I get the cast off just before xmas. Wish my wrist luck on being back 100%. CM Evans Cartoons

Link Added - FriendsWithYou via HI FRUCTOSE

I found this interesting website today through a new art magazine called HI FRUCTOSE-- it is called FriendsWithYou -- unique merchandise -- some books, mostly dolls, etc. Don't forget to look at the links section of HI FRUCTOSE as well! Links section

Holiday Greetings & Cartoon

Wooo wooo whoooo! Hope ya'll had a fine iThanksgiving as opposed to having a Thanksgiving.com. Now get ye to a Mall and shop yer damn brains out. Here's my Christmas list:

- Gunpowder
- Several Pounds of Ribs
- 1 Gallon, each, of White, Black, Tan, Buff, Silver, Grey, Blue, Slate & Tope Interior Latex Paint, Semi Gloss*
- Booze
- Any Marx Brothers Movie
- String**
- Geiger Counter
- Classical Music^
- A Big Cowboy Hat
- Lighter Fluid^^
- Wooden Matches ~

So there it is. Good luck with parking! CM Evans Cartoons

* None of that cheap shit paint, either -- I want Ralph Lauren. For a series of Jackson Pollock style of action-paintings I am doing.

** Twine, really. No spun nylon, please.

^ Mozart, Handel

^^ To soak the Cowboy Hat in

~ To ignite Cowboy Hat

Links Added - American Science and Surplus/ Archie McPhee

Added 2 new links to the Links section -- first one is the comprehensive American Science and Surplus. I mean, if you want giant magnets, bizarre brushings, gears, pulleys, belts and chains, robot parts, and a load of other stuff for taking over the neighborhood and then the world, you can get it here. Think of that site as a scientific version of the sublime Archie McPhee -- another great potpourri-type merchandise site -- go there for your catapults, tub o flying cats, devil ducks, Moses (and other historical personalities) Action Figures, and Cowboy Theme Band-Aids. I hope you enjoy. This link. And that link. Links Section

Cartoon - Torch

TORCHES RULE!!!! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Elephants and Monkeys

I did these little illustrations for Opium Magazine. I think the monkey on roller-skates needs a nose, though. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - To the Gun Store

Whenever I feel blue, and I don't know what to do, I go down to the Gun Store and buy me up a big gun with lots of attachments on it for scopes, muzzle-breaks, bayonets, tazers, lasers, extra large clips, special combat grips, and stuff like that. Then I go home and watch a war movie and drink. Works every time! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Old Jars

Hey lookit this -- a picture of old jars. Hey -- I broke my left wrist the day after Candy Day. What a bummer! Laid my bike down too. Double-bummer. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Moo and Mistakes

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Cartoon - Bobby's Boot

Wishing all of you a Happy Halloween, Dia de los Muertos, or even Happy Candy Day. Here is an off-topic cartoon. CM Evans Cartoons

Thanks for the Votes!

I see someone took the time to vote for me over at OnlineComics.net (35 fans, now!). Whomever you are, if you'd like, I'll send you an orginal CM Evans Artwork, signed and dated. Contact me through the OnlineComics button "Comic Feedback, Comments & Discussions", right next to the "Add to My Favorites" button at my listing, so I'll make sure to send it to the right person.

If anyone else wants to vote for me, I'll be happy to send you a signed orginal cartoon as well. If you want one.

Link Added - Peter's Mostly Food Blog

Added "Peter's Mostly Food Blog" to my links section. Peter is a fine gourmet and epicure (in the most positive meaning of the word)-- he lives in the Pacific Northwest, on Bainbridge Island. Enjoy!

Vote for CM Evans over at OnlineComics.net

If you come by this site with any regularity and feel inclined to help me get more visibility, one thing you could do is register at OnlineComics.net and then vote for my listing via that little folder icon with a plus on the far right -- the tooltip for it is "Add to my Favorites". It will raise my popularity & fan base. Gosh, I'd be so happy if you did that. Best regards to all of you.

Cartoon - Orgastic Lines

Todd said that he was talking to a book agent, and when he asked her what she thought of Opium Magazine, she said it was a big literary circle jerk. Actually, to be fair, she said, "Your literary magazine world is one big circle jerk." Well said, you jaded, worldly, agent of books! Just like Politics, Mass-Marketing, Prime-Time Television, and long sections of Western Civilization. Cartoons auf CM Evans

Cartoon - A Double BM

Better late than never, I heard someone say. Who was late. Shuddup and eat yer damn knish. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - French Import

I always kinda liked Citroëns -- at the same time I know very little about them, other than the Citroën DS19 had this powerful hydraulic suspension allowing the user to raise and lower the whole vehicle depending on road conditions and the kind of ride they wanted. When I worked in SJ, in the parking garage at my work, someone had a DS19 -- but it didn't look like it was in running condition. I think an executive was storing it there. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - At The Party

I had stuff to say about this one, but then I decided to just let it ride. CM Evans Cartoons

Link Added - floflo/Travels of a Wormy Nerdy Weird Guy

I don't know exactly what to call this blog, which I found randomly today. "Travels of a Wormy Nerdy Weird Guy", is one title that comes to mind. And I like him, I really like him. I hope he scores soon too, you can see here and here, he's definitely trying. Go for it floflo -- don't quit no matter what! Added to my links section

CM Evans Live @ Opium

Well lookie here. Another CM Evans cartoon live over at Opium Magazine -- whose third issue is now out as well. I just got my copy in the mail the other day -- it gets better and better with each issue. So go and order a copy.

Tuesday/ Thursday Updates

Here are the cartoons from the Tuesday/ Thursday weekly update of the cartoon site -- we had a baby boy about a month ago and he's lots of fun a lots more work. But all is good, sleeping about 3-4 hours a night now. CM Evans Cartoons

Link Added - Liquor Log

I try to add cartoon links to stay on topic, but here is a blog I have been enjoying reading, Liquor Log -- all about booze (duh!) -- I have been posting boozy cartoons lately, so I guess I'm not too far off the beaten path. Have a great weekend. I'm sorry, no, have a lousy weekend. Get drunk, fall asleep in a cemetery, and wake up covered in dew. CM Evans Links Section

Cartoon - My Cowboy Hat

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Cartoon - Beer Baseball

My friend, Erik, ran a newsletter called "Buffalo Chips" for his group of drinking buddies who were loosely affiliated with the name "Buffalos". The Buffalos, in turn, participated in the local bar baseball league. For the newsletter I'd supply Erik with cartoons. I'd show up, he'd hand me a pen and papers, and I would do 10 - 20 cartoons, usually drawing while lying on the floor. This cartoon was one that ran in the "Chips" after a notorious win or loss on the ball field, between gimlets at the top of the eighth and a few chasers before the ninth.CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - One Beer Too Many

A few years back in S.F., when the moon came up, we decided to have a few drinks on the roof of the second story flat. A girl had a few drinks too many, so she stepped off the roof, thinking she was stepping down onto a wooden kitchen awning. But she was confused and she stepped into an air-shaft that was about 10 feet deep -- she fell without a sound. Next thing she knows, she's standing straight up at the bottom the pitch-back shaft with both her legs jammed through the ceiling of the flat below, with a wooden beam 2 inches between her legs. Instead of screaming, we heard her laughing down there in the dark, while we pulled her out before the cops came. That's what I call the "lure of gravity". CM Evans Kartoons

Cartoon - Old Grouch

Hello to anyone out there who bothers to read this lousy blog with any reasonable regularity. I hate you all. As I increase with age, literally!, I like it when the olde timey folks tell younguns what is exactly on their mind, and how they feel about whippersnappers in general. Ah, to be young, and to be yelling! Also, may we all be boiled alive in the soup of our own sauce. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Wild Comb

I had a comb like this once -- born free, free as the wind blows, free to be you and me, baby it was born to run, etc. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Billy Afflicted

Hi there -- missed the Tuesday weekly update, mostly due to lack of sleep and 1 or 2 minor, yet irritating technical issues. But we're good to go. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Clone and Pencil

Switching things around a bit here today for the Thursday cartoon update -- this here double panel update is from using the cartoon characters and backgounds from Witty Comics!, where you can make and post cartoons, some of which are extremely funny. I encourage you to go forth and check it out -- I even added it to my links section. I can't believe I didn't have it there before, I think I played with the site about 2 years ago. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Bad Dinner Party

Theoretically this cannot happen, ever. But watch out. Watch out. Do I have any nutty dinner party stories? Dinner party stories of dinner parties gone horribly and terribly wrong? Scenes involving the eating of dinners that should not have been consumed in the venue of a party with certain people? Indeed I do. But go watch "The Party" with Peter Sellers instead. CM Evans' Dangerous and Disastrous Dinner Party Cartoon Website

Back to Respectability - New Swiss Knife Catalog

Back to respectability with the latest installment to the CM Evans cartoon website. In college, one job I had was that of a doorman for a swank building on Gough Street in S.F. I got along with everyone quite fine, and part of my job at the end of the day was to take out any recycling or trash that the tenants would put for me to take out in the back stairwell. One thing I discovered was the crème de la crème of society gets FABULOUS catalogs. I mean, these 4 color catalogs were gorgeous, selling all sorts of rare and precious things -- like real Louis the 14th end tables, scrimshaw from the 1820s, rare Arabian firearms, Ming Dynasty pottery, famous paintings, and other stuff that usually is in museums. And everything cost at least $5,000.00 -- and that was cheap. So I'd take these catalogs and read them in my $250.00 a month room in the Mission District, and try to figure where I'd put the end tables if I could afford them, and if they would complement warped wooden floors and chipping paint. I suppose they'd have to do, if I got them to show off my Ming Vase and assorted potpourri of Ancient Scrimshaw. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon Plagiarism Over at Wikipedia

I found this to be interesting -- a bit of political cartoon plagiarism over at Wikipedia -- now don't get me wrong...I love Wikipedia. But I hate plagiarizers. I was looking for the defintion of "Satire" and this is what I found as an example. The color version of the cartoon purports to be the original, according to Wikipdeia, "Published 1984 as a poster by Finnreklama Oy, a printer/publisher of Finland." Here is this Finnish publishing website "Finnreklama Oy - Book Maker", located in Sulkava, Finland.

However, the second black and white cartoon is the original, or a copy of the original, drawn by American Pulitzer-Prize winning political cartoonist David Horsey for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer in 1984. I have my copy from the cartoon compilation ReaganComics, published in 1984 by Carew Papritz and Russ Tremayne, Khyber Press. This illustration is on the back cover.

As often happens with plagiarizers and second-handers, the copied version isn't nearly as good at the original artwork, and the plagiarizer feels free to make a series of inferior changes to some of the text and humorous details. Two notable omissions are the knife-shaped island of Cuba "(The Dagger at our Loins)" and the Reagan Portrait -- the copier also seems to be a rotten artist, see the crude looking bird in the compass that replaced Mom with Apple Pie. Amongst various retitling on the map, the plagiarizer wrote "Lake of Our Tribes" subtitle for the Indian Ocean. Is that the best you can do?

Cosmic Swiss Cheese T-Shirt

I was stumbling around the old rotten Refreshingly Obscure Online Mercado the other day and discovered the Cosmic Swiss Cheese T-Shirt. One of my favorite products. It comes out looking good, too, as a clock. I think I'll be making some new products this week.

Cartoon - Rock N Hard

"About to be between a rock and a hard place." I like it when irony is also ironic. And the ironic irony is extra ironic. I also like collecting faux piñatas. CM Evans Cartoons

YOUNG ADVENTURE FRIENDS over at TDGIMC

Here is a strange strip by a guy/ gal named Bella Whigimill. YOUNG ADVENTURE FRIENDS. The more I can't figure it out, the more it appeals to me on some kind of subtle molecular level. I found Bella (or is it Bill/billisbygosh?) through an ongoing online cartoon competition called The Daily Grind Iron Man Challenge...competitors must update their comic Monday through Friday without fail, or you are eliminated from the pool. Winner gets $1,120. TDGIMC been going since March of last year. I wonder how long it will keep going, and who will win? I'd figure on at least another year.

Cartoon - Half of You

Having some problems with the CM Evans Cartoon site today, loading new art issues. But here is Tuesday's cartoon. Yes, this is really how much half of you is worth. Shocking, isn't it? Shocking!! CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Phoebe Drawing - Late

A Sunday special update, featuring a drawing, "Late", from the vastly talented writer and illustrator, Phoebe Evans, age 7. Recently Phoebe has gained great appreciation for the speech bubble, and all the useful effects this visual mechanism is capable of creating. She has some products (Phoebe Cat, Best Friend) over at my rarely visited store, The Refreshingly Obscure Online Mercado. More of Phoebe's work to come. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Handy

It is important to know how to fix things. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Then One Day

Oh I don't know. I was going to write, "Then one day, the mousse I was using set my hair on fire." But many of us out there have no idea what mousse is. I barely do. This cartoon obviously is for the Ladies. I hope some of the Ladies get a chuckle from this. CM Evans Cartoons

Worth Looking At - Darby Hudson's Fabulous Flash Stories

Amazing! I love this kind of stuff -- I was looking at Dancing on Fly Ash (which is regrettably going away) and saw this link -- Darby Hudson has three flash stories on his website. They're brilliant. Evening At Grandma's was my favorite. Well done, Darby.

Cartoon - MY LUCKY HAT

This is, in fact, my lucky hat. I have never had bad luck wearing the lucky hat. Whenever I need good luck, I resort to the wearing of the lucky hat. No, you cannot have my lucky hat. Sorry, there is only one lucky hat. Someday, without doubt, my lucky hat will be on display at the Smithsonian Institution. Or some other August Institution of Science, Arts, Culture,and Learning. CM Evans Cartoons

CM Evans Live @ Opium, Fiction!

On a side note - "Oldest Bestest Friend in the Whole World" short micro-fiction by your pal, CM Evans is live over at Opium Magazine. Before I was a cartoonist, I was a poet, and then a writer. I am sure many visitors to this site have figured out that I am also responsible for the writing blog Giganticjet. I hope you enjoy it.

Cartoon - Doggy

I heard a story one time, from an ex-lover of mine -- in college, she was invited over to a date's house for dinner. The date surprised her when he asked her what she wanted for dinner, because he was going to cook her a meal. Imagining something gourmet, she said she liked chicken. When she got to his house, she saw he lived in a dump of an apartment. It also looked like he had just woken up, though it was 5 o'clock in the afternoon. When she asked him how the dinner was going, he pointed to the oven. She opened the oven door, and saw a small whole roasting chicken, raw, sitting on a plate. The oven was not on. As I understand it, that was the extent of that relationship. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Bored

Dang. I hate when I get bored. I wish I knew how to cut gigantic paper snowflakes. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - The Pangs of Love

Pang - Noun

* S: (n) pang, stab, twinge (a sudden sharp feeling) "pangs of regret"; "she felt a stab of excitement"; "twinges of conscience"
* S: (n) pang, sting (a mental pain or distress) "a pang of conscience"
* S: (n) pang (a sharp spasm of pain)

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Cartoon - Back in the Doghouse

When I was growing up, we had neighbors that had a Rhodesian Ridgeback named "Moose", and he had a huge doghouse. Four kids could fit in it. We didn't stay in it long, cause the thing smelled like dog. Plus Moose decided to come in the doghouse while we were in there, temporarily both trapping us and covering everyone from head-to-foot with slobber. We piled out full of dog fur. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Bill Breaks Through

I had this cartoon for about a year, just sitting around sans caption -- I grabbed it today, added a urinal, and voila! CM Evans Cartoons

Updates to Resume August 1

I was OOT for like, 2 weeks. But now I'm back. I'm not dead. I'm relaxed now. I feel like humming. I want to play a cool video game, but there ain't any cool ones to play. I want to play a cool RPG. Check for a new cartoon tomorrow.

Cartoon - Look at My

With this, the power of speech, nay words, fail me almost utterly. But still I go on. Can you imagine anything else so simple, so sublime, so confident in it's own economy of expression, or form? ((((((Besides possibly a bar of soap, or a hoagie.) Or an old piece of twine.) Or a small rock.) Or a bug.) Or a 1 dollar bill.) Or a wheel off a matchbox car.) CM Evans Cartoons

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Cartoon - Happy Bday Creep

Damn! A double-fisted update today, in honor of my birthday! I am 389 years old today. Just kidding. I am actually 987 years old today. No, sorry -- I am 1,733 years old, today. CM Evans Cartoons

Happy Birthday to Me

Today is my XX birthday. How old am I? Well, let's see. I know what a rotary-dial phone is. In Junior High my first computer was an Apple II+ (eventally we upgraded it to 512K, with dual floppy drives, which was SMOKING in those days). Speaking of computers, my first video game was Pong. Also, on the Apple, I played Adventure and Zork. Wizardry rocked. Anyone out there know what I'm talking about? CM Evans Cartoons