# Ever get an idea for a one-panel cartoon? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 2, 2012, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158 "2012-08-02T09:41:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Koxinga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/4af34b/32.png) [@Koxinga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Koxinga)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/1 "2012-08-02T09:41:18Z")
I can’t draw, but if I were [Dan Piraro](http://www.cartoonbrew.com/comics/todays-bizarro.html) I would draw a panel that depicted Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz standing near a ziggarut (stepped pyramid), her eyes blackened with kohl, a huge dust devil approaching from behind. Nearby is Professor Marvel wearing a long robe and sporting a long, squared off & curly beard, reclining in front of his chariot. The caption would be: WELCOME TO UR-KANSAS ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/2 "2012-08-02T13:40:29Z")
Imagine two guys paddling in canoes. One guy’s canoe has a really big alligator in it. Caption: I told you to be sure to bring your **P F D** ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/3 "2012-08-02T13:53:56Z")
The banker guy from the Monopoly game standing on a high place, pissing on working people. ‘Trickle-Down Theory’. ---
**Author:** ![postcards](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8e8cbc/32.png) [@postcards](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/postcards)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/4 "2012-08-02T20:19:45Z")
A man, holding a handkerchief out to a woman: “Does this smell like chloroform to you?” ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/5 "2012-08-02T21:07:35Z")
I never did but my son had an idea for a cartoon, he wrote to the late New Yorker cartoonist Handelsmann, who actually used it and paid my son a fee (which he didn’t cash). It was at the peak of the [dot.com](http://dot.com) boom, it appeared in a December issue and it showed a group of people sitting around saying something like, "We had only enough venture to last one day, but by some miracle it lasted for eight. So if you have an idea for a cartoon, try writing to the cartoonist. It can work. I gather they get ideas from people all the time and use some of them. ---
**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/6 "2012-08-02T21:19:45Z")
Irritable-looking guy, struggling to push a gigantic concrete letter “e” into a moving van, where there is already a gigantic letter “o”, ‘a’, etc., to someone interrupting his labors: “I told you to leave me alone when I’m trying to move my vowels.” ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/7 "2012-08-02T23:16:21Z")
I had an idea for one a few years ago after watching a few episodes of “Emeril” on the Food Network. The title of the cartoon is “Emeril at Home” and shows his family sitting around the dinner table as he brings dinner to the table. One of the kids pipes up “Spaghetti? _Again?_” ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 11:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/8 "2012-08-02T23:21:49Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > I never did but my son had an idea for a cartoon, he wrote to the late New Yorker cartoonist Handelsmann, who actually used it and paid my son a fee (which he didn’t cash). It was at the peak of the [dot.com](http://dot.com) boom, it appeared in a December issue and it showed a group of people sitting around saying something like, "We had only enough venture to last one day, but by some miracle it lasted for eight. 😃 Link! Link! נס גדול היה שם (Nas gadol hayah sham – “A great miracle happened there.” – source of the four Hebrew letters on a dreidel.) ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/9 "2012-08-02T23:31:07Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > I never did but my son had an idea for a cartoon, he wrote to the late New Yorker cartoonist Handelsmann, who actually used it and paid my son a fee (which he didn’t cash). It was at the peak of the [dot.com](http://dot.com) boom, it appeared in a December issue and it showed a group of people sitting around saying something like, "We had only enough venture to last one day, but by some miracle it lasted for eight. (Missed edit window above.) > [@Senegoid](#): > > 😃 Link! Link! > > נס גדול היה שם I found [this](http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/images/P-473-488-90/60/6066/ODZD100Z/posters/j-b-handelsman-the-internet-startup-had-only-enough-cash-for-one-more-day-but-miracul-new-yorker-cartoon.jpg). Is that it? ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/10 "2012-08-02T23:58:37Z")
I’ve drawn a few sketches as ideas have come, but never really took the time to draw them properly. One was a parking lot showing the handicap spaces filled with a wheelchair and crutches, etc. Another one was a the clerk at the Secretary of State telling a guy she needed Proof of Birth, so he walks over and photocopies his bellybutton. ---
**Author:** ![Napier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ce73a5/32.png) [@Napier](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Napier)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/11 "2012-08-03T03:01:50Z")
A black and white cow saying “Booooooooooo”. It’s topical. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-get-an-idea-for-a-one-panel-cartoon/630158/12 "2012-08-03T03:13:51Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > I’ve drawn a few sketches as ideas have come, but never really took the time to draw them properly. > > One was a parking lot showing the handicap spaces filled with a wheelchair and crutches, etc. > > Another one was a the clerk at the Secretary of State telling a guy she needed Proof of Birth, so he walks over and photocopies his bellybutton. Oh, I like that last one!😛