2014: A year of Shishi -- Chinese Lion-Dogs -- 3.21.2014

3. 21. 2014

Here is the dog that showed up today -- drawn at a meeting I was at, on a paper towel. These Shishi are veeery interesting -- they scan ok -- but interesting things happen when I try to save them to the hard-drive, or upload them to Facebook, or here. There is a certain amount of resistance! Must be a powerful symbol. Very potent symbol.

My good fortune from this, is your good fortune. Any errors, are due to my fault, and my fault only.

: - )

CM

Cartoon - If You're Spring, I Guess You're Coming In

Oh yeah -- happy first day of spring. Now get out there and paint a fence or help an old lady across the street. CM Evans Cartoons

FREE POETRY THURSDAY

TONIGHT! "Free Poetry Thursday" in Laguna Beach at A.I.R. Gallery

658 South Pacific Coast Highway -- between Cleo & Legion.

5.30 to 8.30 PM.

Come by and get a little paper boat with a poem in it. Happens every Thursday!

2014: A year of Shishi -- Chinese Lion-Dogs

I was reading a book on Katsushika Hokusai -- one of Japan's most famous artists -- he was renown for the block print. He's probably one of the finest block-printers in the history of art. Even if you don't think you know him, you know him, because his images have been endlessly reproduced. I read starting in 1842 he drew shishi -- Chinese Lion-Dogs  -- one for each day, for a year. Because I have a ceramic shishi -- I decided to do the same. I started on 3.11.14. I'm not feeling unlucky, but why not increase the luck and see what it brings me? Then I can share my good luck with you!

Cartoon - Regional Conflict

Don't laugh -- please. Do you know how hard it is to get a good insurance policy for your armored personnel carriers and light vehicles with comprehensive road assistance and routine maintenance, when you're trying to mobilize them for a regional conflict? I mean, if you lose your coverage at that point, you might as well go cry -- because it will either be prohibitively expensive to replace the same coverage you had before, or you'll only get it through some third-rate insurance exchange that has lousy customer support. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Never Nevermind

I was watching Colombo -- or someone else was watching Colombo in the other room. Then I thought of that line from "Princess' Bride" -- never start a land war in Asia. But of curse, this was reportedly mentioned General Douglas MacArthur to President John F. Kennedy, in 1961.

I figure it does not count if you are from Asia, because lots of people start wars there, and win them all the time.

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Cartoon - Thanks You / Do Feel Better

I was going
to post a poem
that was witty
and had
something observant
to say about communication

But I couldn't find
the right poem I had written
in the past

Here is the cartoon -- I
drew it in baby-blue ink,
but then I set it to
grayscale

I might repost as
grayscale

I like color

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PS

And for anyone
who has been feeling blue

I do hope you feel
better

Cartoon - TANK ON TANK!!!

It was going to ROCK!!! TANK verses TANK!! NO RULES!!! TANK THROWDOWN!!! GET IN YOUR TANK AND FIGHT!!! Then we're on a giant golf course I guess. Tank one falls into Hole #14. Handicap/ Par 2/4. "Left-center of the fairway is the ideal tee shot to avoid the trees guarding the approach from the right." From the giant brochure we found nearby that we though was a house. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - BM 2 fer Monday

I have these colored pens, and I draw with them, but other people around here draw with the pens too -- and so what happens is I start a cartoon, and the pen runs out. Undeterred, I keep drawing the cartoon with a totally different color, and I imagine if anyone studies my artwork when I'm dead, they'll think I changed colors because of some deeply symbolic meaning. What I mean is, you're too kind to come by and look at my work, and I love you.

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Have a nice day.

Cartoon - In Love with the World

Oh here we go World -- the minute I've sworn to resolving to harden my heart and never love you again -- then you sneak up on me, with all the happiness and love I can see in you, and I'm in love with you more than ever. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Hitting the Motherlode

I was going to draw something else -- but then this showed up somehow. I have no idea why.

I was more trying to coming up with a cartoon, on how birds are actually people. I told my son, who is seven now, that birds don't come from eggs. I explained most birds are people who lied too much. I told my son every time you lie, you get smaller by just a little bit -- it is hardly noticeable. And as you get smaller, your skin starts to become more feathery. You continue to tell fibs, you keep shrinking and getting more and more feathery, and then one day you are a bird!

My son smiled kindly, didn't believe me -- even for one second. You see, I also told him once that keyfobs come from key-trees. I said the keyfobs grow like leaves on the key-tree, and when they are ripe the break off in pairs and fly fly fly to the keystore to be sold as key-fobs.

Oh well. Let me know when you strike it rich.

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Cartoon - God Parking

It is a bit embarrassing. You get ticketed by emanations from your own creation. A demonstration of the concept of 'free will', I guess. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - It Is My

I hope you are having a swell day, in whatever part of the world you are from. Try this one out. I think it is always worth trying to change one's self, because if I change then everyone around me can reap that benefit, and they didn't have to do anything. We're talking positive change here. The more positive changes in you, the more people come into your life. I know this is obvious to many of you, but I thought I'd mention it to those who were wondering if the good is stronger than the bad. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - AprilValen's Day

Of course, then I go back for the throat, or a give it a swift kick to the balls. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Valentines Day / Bring It

Then there are those times when I try to be nice, and I try extra hard, but I end up not being nice. Because I wasn't really being so reasonable before.

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Cartoon - 2. 14. 14

OK -- I go for contrast, or perspective here. Trying to make it to the other side. Some people can enjoy a holiday, without other people going in and bombing it to smithereens.

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Cartoon - Valentines Day

Sometimes I cartoon exactly what I'm thinking. People tend to be less honest nowadays, with all the blogging, texting and chatting we do -- I think it is because we want to appear to be nice.

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I also love the entire country of Portugal. And every person there who looks at my cartoons.

Happy Valentine's Day to you. : -)



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Cartoon - Why I

When I can't figure things out, I draw charts. Here is a new chart that could come in handy for any number of occasions -- at work, at home, wherever. Enjoy. CM Evans Cartoons

Cartoon - Hardly

I'm reading more short stories by HP Lovecraft. It's been a few years -- I found a few of his books in my library that I now can shelve because I have shelves. Then I was reading the stories more carefully, and I realized that I'm not reading a book by HP Lovecraft -- it is actually a collection of stories by Frank Belknap Long -- one of a few notable writers in the circle of 'Weird Tales', with Lovecraft. LOL. It has been some time since I read Frank Belknap Long and mistook him of HP Lovecraft. CM Evans Cartoons