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Dog Cartoons!

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Dog cartoons are some of my favorite to do.

There’s an awful lot of really good low-hanging material to play with: fetch, tail wagging, being man’s best friend… Then there’s the wealth of idioms: every dog has its day, sick as a dog, it’s a dog eat dog world for example. And if you want you can go pretty deep: Pavlov,  different breeds, Westminster…  Not to mention they’re fun to draw and even more fun to anthropomorphize!

So today and next Tuesday the Andertoons Cartoon Blog is going to the dogs! Enjoy:

I have to admit I’ve done this with my own dog. There’s just something so funny about watching her look for a ball that’s not there. It must drive her crazy.

This is one of those cartoons where I can’t really explain why it’s funny to me. The casual banter over brandy in the middle of a rescue just makes me really happy.

I normally steer away from subjects like blindness for fear of offending someone, but this seemed gentle enough, and I just couldn’t resist.

This came to me while I was buying dog food at the store. I imagined separate bags marked ‘kibbles” and “bits,” and then that scene from When Harry Met Sally came to mind. Who knew Alpo and Ephron would mix?

This one began with the image first as sort of a brain teaser for myself. What had this dog done that had created those results? In the end it ended up being not about the cause, but just being happy.

Dog Cartoon #6239 by Andertoons

Sparky was eventually acquitted and now lives quietly with his tail in rural Iowa.

I hope you enjoyed this mini collection of dog cartoons! See you again next week, and feel free to browse more here.

(BTW, don’t miss the sequel to this entry!)

Cat Cartoons Part 2

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Cartoons and cats go hand in hand. At the very least cartoonists certainly chat them up:

Way down deep, we’re all motivated by the same urges. Cats have the courage to live by them. – Jim Davis

Meow is like aloha – it can mean anything.- Hank Ketchum

Fans think they want to see more than the 10 to 20 seconds of Itchy and Scratchy that we put on the show, but my feeling is less is more. Once you’ve skinned and flayed a cat, ripped his head off, made him drink acid and tied his tongue to the moon, there really isn’t that much to say. – Matt Groening

And now my own small additions to cat cartoondom:

A take on the old “you’re getting sleepy…” hypnotism thing, except that I figured that might be redundant for a cat. So I went the other way.

I’m fairly sure if you knew everything your cat had done that at some point legal advice would be required. Plausible deniability is much much better.

Getting all the of elements of this cartoon to read in the right order was a challenge. You need to recognize the delivery, scuba gear, a cat and then the fish. Tricky, but worth it.

I almost never work in multiple panels, and captionless gags are the hardest to do, so while this one was a bit of a stretch for me, it’s also one of my personal favorites.

You’d think being a cat would be enough for this applicant to stand out.

Cat Cartoon #6216 by Andertoons

I wrote this early one morning while getting my coffee. That’s often a good time to write as the editor in my head hasn’t gotten up yet.

Well, I hope you’ve enjoyed my cat cartoons! Feel free to browse ’em all here!