Friday Cartoon

I’ve been trying again to draw every day in my sketchbook. And for the past week or two I’ve been trying to come up with funny things that derive from real life. Here is one example from yesterday (and I know, if I had drawn it electronically and posted it yesterday it would have been more fitting):

Cartoon: So Close

This is a new cartoon / puzzle hybrid that I’ve been working on. What’ I’m pasting below is a sketch, so I hope to have better art, to refine the title / subtitle, and resolve whether to have instructions, etc..

I would appreciate any comments: Do you think the puzzle needs directions? Are the boxes and arrows self explanatory, or are they confusing?

Cartoon: Agreement

Below today’s cartoon is my list of answers to Monday’s P.S. initials challenge.

25 people whose initials are P.S.: Pat Sajak, Pierre Salinger, Pete Sampras, Phyllis Schlafly, Paul Scofield, Peter Scolari, Pete Seeger, Peter Sellers, Paul Shaffer, Percy Shelley, Pauly Shore, Phil Silvers, Paul Simon, Patti Smyth, Phoebe Snow, Phil Spector, Paul Stanley, Peter Steiner, Patrick Stewart, Payne Stewart, Picabo Street, Preston Sturges, Pat Summerall, Pat Summitt, and Patrick Swayze.

Cartoon: Whale

It’s been a couple of weeks since I’ve posted a cartoon. I have a few others in mind, I just haven’t gotten around to drawing them digitally. Below today’s drawing is my list from Monday’s challenge.

Here are 19 words that contain the consonants DRS in that order, and no others: Adders, address, adores, dares, dairies, daresay, dearies, dears, diaries, doors, dories, drays, dress, dressy, dries, dross, duress, odors, and udders.

B and B answers

My list of phrases that fit the pattern B__ and B__ is below. I have a feeling there are a lot more “in the language” phrases out there, so I may add to this over time.

Here are seven phrases: Bailey’s and Bushmill’s (this has an Irish connection as well, for this week), Beavis and Butthead, bed and breakfast, beef and barley, black and blue, and bread and butter. I didn’t include the birds and the bees and a couple of others because they use the word “the.”

Cartoon: None today

As of now (2:45 p.m.) I don’t have a cartoon ready, so I’ll post my list from Monday and add art later if I can.

Monday’s challenge asked for words that contain the letter N and no other consonants (nor the repetition of an N, as in NONE). I found 16 words: An, anoa (a crossword puzzle word–a dwarf buffalo), annoy, any,  en (the letter), eeny, eon, in, inn, ion, nay, nee, no, nu, on, and one.

Cartoon: Shopping

Under today’s cartoon are my answers to Monday’s URL three-peats puzzle.

I found 18 words with the letters URL in that order somewhere in them. Again, I didn’t count more than one form of each word. Burlap, burlesque, burly, churlish, curlicue (I like that version of curl), dourly, flourless, furlong, furlough, hourly, hurl, knurl, purl, purloin, purlieu, sourly, surliest and unfurl.

Cartoon: Weight Issue

Below today’s cartoon are my answers to the four by four name challenge from Monday. 

I have 35 names of famous (non-fictional) people whose first and last names both contain four letters. I’m sure there are many more, so I may add to the list over time: Alan Alda, Tori Amos, Paul Anka, Joan Baez, Kate Bush, Joel Coen, Tyne Daly, John Ford, Teri Garr, Andy Gibb, Joel Grey, Zane Grey, John Hurt, Burl Ives, Joan Jett, Carl Jung, Jack Kemp, Alan Ladd, Bert Lahr, Karl Marx, Joan Miro, Kate Moss, John Muir, Lena Olin, Jack Paar, Sean Penn, Brad Pitt, Anne Rice, Pete Rose, Karl Rove, Babe Ruth, Mort Sahl, John Tesh, Jack Webb, and Adam West.

Cartoon: Weather

My list of people who have the initials A.L. follows the drawing.

Here’s a quick cartoon that I drew up today:

Here are 14 famous people who share the initial A.L. Let me know if you think of more: Alan Ladd, Ann Landers, Angela Lansbury, Avril Lavigne, Al Leiter, Annie Lennox, Aldo Leopold, Anthony Lewis, Annie Liebovitz, Abraham Lincoln, Art Linkletter, Anita Loos, Amy Lowell, and Alan Ludden.

Cartoon: Stiff Drinks

Below today’s cartoon is my list of NN words from Monday’s challenge.

I found 17 words that contain the letters NN and no other consonants: Anion, anon, inane, naan (Indian bread), nana (grandma), nanny, nene (a Hawaiian goose), neon, nine, ninny, non, none, noon, noun, nun, onion, and union.