TNY cartoon: a spoonful of sugar
(Click on the image to reach the cartoonbank.com)
The second sign says, “Non-Employees really ought to wash their hands, too.” (Sorry, the cartoonbank shrinks them so that sometimes you can’t read text inside the cartoon, so I enlarged it a bit, which made it a little fuzzy.)
I’m sick as a dog, having caught some kind of cold or flu from one of my lovely clients (one of the hazards of the job, and bound to happen sooner or later when you deal with so many different people), but the spoonful of sugar helping me draw my batch today (had to crash last night, the fever took over), and maybe even finish it on time, is the above cartoon, sold over a year ago, and finally published this week!
It was the result of a hallucination one day in a restaurant restroom. I could’ve sworn I saw a sign just like the second one in the cartoon, out of the corner of my eye. Also, this cartoon had been rejected several times when I finally thought re-drawing it more nicely might help. And it did.
Paranoia, hypochondria, too much coffee, and a little diligence: all these things contribute to the creation of a cartoon. That should raise my morale enough to drag my butt to midtown today for a one-hour fitting at least.
