I don’t know the cartoonist, but found it in a daily paper. I think he’s a well known cartoonist. Or was about 20 years ago… I can’t even throw a name out there though.
I think it’s a two panel cartoon. Two guys sitting at a bar.
Panel one -
Guy one : lamenting “My Wife left me, I lost my job, my dog died, and all anyone cares about is my hat!”
Panel two -
Guy two : curious “What’s the matter with your hat?”
Any ideas? I’d love to find it again. Google foo is failing me.
I’m sure there’s a name for this kind of joke, where a list of bad things ends with some unusual incongruous detail that grabs the attention, i.e. :
A: Did you hear about the war criminal who murdered 500 [members of particular ethnic group] and two kangaroos?
B: What? Why two kangaroos?
A: Heh, I know nobody cared about [members of particular ethnic group].
I’ve seen and heard multiple variations, so good luck narrowing it down to a particular cartoonist.
I have no idea if this particular gag is one of his or not, but I immediately thought of Joe Martin, creator of Mister Boffo and Willy & Ethel.
^ First thing that popped into my head; that’s his style, all over.
Willy: I’m too tired to go to work today. I’m too tired to even come up with an excuse.
Ethel: What if your doctor was too tired to come to his office to see you?
Will: You wouldn’t happen to know what his excuse was, would you?
He also writes Porterfield and Cats With Hands.
I think it may have been Willy & Ethel.
Thanks for everyone’s replies.