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Old 05-28-2000, 09:49 AM
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I got the grand job of making the "filler" cartoon for my neighborhood weekly (it only rates bottom-inside-margin position).
Pay? Not a cent above my regular pay for classified ad phone-in data-entry.

But I like to draw so I volenteered. I had 5 ideas and used them all. Help!

Ideas don't have to be great. My first: A billboard for the isolated diner in the desert background: "Wilma's Cafe - validated parking"
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Old 05-28-2000, 11:30 AM
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How about . . .

A couple in the sidewalk section of a cafe.
Obviously nude but descretely masked by other people/ferns/etc.
The waiter is scowling.
The man points to the sign saying "Then what does it mean?"
The sign reads Alfresco Dining.
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Old 05-29-2000, 05:40 PM
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In the grocery

Loaf of bread: "Boy, that was quick! And they didn't even have a going away party"

Other loaf, on the "Day Old" shelf : "Good luck kid! You may need it."
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Old 05-29-2000, 11:31 PM
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A priest a rabbi and a policeman come into a bar.
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Old 05-30-2000, 04:18 PM
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That's almost a joke, actually.
You need 3 people associated with food.
How about a fisherman?

Then the cop orders fish & chips

The fisherman orders a kosher pickle

And the Rabbi orders donuts.

Or, mix in some other people with food cliches.
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Old 05-31-2000, 03:25 AM
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You might try the half-jokes you see in New Yorker.

Like a bear asking the grocer for nuts and berries.

Or a clown with curly hair buying an identically-shaped broccoli.
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Old 05-31-2000, 11:03 AM
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Will they look like Slug's drawings?
Or can't you draw people well?
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Old 06-04-2000, 03:35 PM
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(I'm not sure Slug can draw like Slug. Every picture seems stranger than the last.)

HELP! I need ideas!
It sounded so easy, but now I'm blanking totally. (boo hoo hoo...sniff)
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