This may seem like an unfortunate accident, but would you really want to put your love life in the hands of a baby (presumably incontinent, and yet no diaper!) with wings and armed with a bow and arrow? It may be for the best!

Speaking of rejection (and the cartoon above was rejected three years in a row in various versions and updates), if you have no valentine today, or have been recently dumped and need to get out and laugh your ass off, go see The Rejection Show’s REJECTED VALENTINE’S DAY HEARTBREAK HAVEN at the UCB! Free beer and a party after the show! Couples and singles both welcome.

UPDATE: this cartoon appears on the Huffington Posts’s comedy site, 23/6 as of now, here! Please feel free to sign in to them and make comments! (It makes them think I’m popular!)

In preparation for Valentine’s, here is one way cupid can mess with you. And you know cupid loves to mess with you.

Now to the rejects!

I tried to come up with some images for The Bubble Lounge, one of my illustration clients, because I didn’t like the photo they asked me to use for a champagne delivery promo I was working on for them, but both my ideas were rejected!

Oh well! Here they are:

This one was inspired by a Japanese delivery truck logo I once saw in Tokyo.

And this one just popped into my head, inspired by a Le Monde graphic  for newspaper delivery used in their subscription ads:

This cartoon was inspired by the very desperate search to keep ahead enough of the news to submit cartoons that might still be valid for at least a few days.  At least time enough for the magazine to come out! It aint’ easy!  

Things change so quickly! For example, McCain will pull the Decency Card a few days before the debates, mystifying everyone till the day of the debate when he says, “I repudiate people when they get out of line!” (Which is true, but only for that one time that he made sure he got on TV a few days before the debates, saying “Obama is a decent family man”!) Till the debate, I thought he had simply lost his marbles again, like that time he hugged President Bush, with a beatific smile. Here is my take, the day of that repudiation, which did not anticipate its use as fodder for the debate:

I was so innocent and naive! His true love, after all, is Joe the Plumber, a guy ” who thinks Barack Obama “can tap dance – almost as good as Sammy Davis Jr.”! Now that’s a supporter McCain can be proud of….?

(maybe they’re hoping something will “happen” to Sarah by now!)

This was rejected, but  not abandoned! I decided to practice my colorizing with Photoshop.  Still have no idea if I’m doing it right, just trying this or that.  Seems like it should be easier, somehow!

And I don’t want to hear any crap about comparing Palin to a poodle being sexist!  She’s the one who started comparing herself to domestic animals! She made her dog-bed and she can lie in it now!

It’s been a busy week, and this is all I have to say about it! At least, for now.