# Is It Possible To Get Better Illustrations For The Home Page? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [January 18, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849 "2009-01-18T10:54:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 10:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/1 "2009-01-18T10:54:07Z")
While the management is upgrading the look and feel of the website a bit in order to lure more punters into the joint and part them from their doubloons, is it at all possible to upgrade the quality of the retina-thrashing cartoons that grace the home page? _De gustibus_ and all that, but they are baboon-startlingly ugly well beyond the point of being downright off-putting. I know the present illustrator has been doing them for a while, and his sub-Robert Crumb stylings may have had a certain hemp-scented charm in a free local rag back in 1973, but 36 years later they should be decently interred in a none-too-salubrious ditch somewhere, preferably under a decomposing tramp to prevent the casual passer-by from investigating too closely, instead of continuing to scorch corneas on the entrance to the site. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/2 "2009-01-18T16:21:43Z")
I would estimate the chance of the Dope separating itself from Slug to be roughly equivalent to, oh, say, the chance of me becoming the illustrator. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/3 "2009-01-18T19:45:19Z")
I suspect Slug’s response would be along [these lines](http://www.slugsignorino.com/straightd1.htm). ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/4 "2009-01-18T19:57:24Z")
You can have our Slug when you can pry him from our cold, slimy hands. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JR\_Brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JR\_Brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JR_Brown)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/5 "2009-01-18T20:55:00Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > I suspect Slug’s response would be along [these lines](http://www.slugsignorino.com/straightd1.htm). Squee! A whole archive of Sluggy goodness! 😃 Oh, and to the OP, your opinion is not concordant with mine. 😛 JRB ---
**Author:** ![Una\_Persson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/una_persson/32/346_2.png) [@Una\_Persson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Una_Persson)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2009, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/6 "2009-01-18T23:34:27Z")
Slug and his illustrations are a fundamental part of the Straight Dope. ---
**Author:** ![hawthorne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@hawthorne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawthorne)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/7 "2009-01-19T00:52:04Z")
> [@](#): > > **Scissorjack** > they are baboon-startlingly ugly well beyond the point of being downright off-putting. He’s going to smear that on his CV, you know. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/8 "2009-01-19T02:07:19Z")
I have no idea what you’re going on about. Slug’s illustrations positively tickle my corneas. Either that or its conjunctivitis. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/9 "2009-01-19T13:33:32Z")
No way in Hell. I love those cartoons. They are 50% of the reason to go to that page. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/10 "2009-01-19T14:41:34Z")
Is this turning into a referendum? I loathe them. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/11 "2009-01-19T16:39:36Z")
If Slug leaves, so do I. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/12 "2009-01-19T16:53:52Z")
[My favorite](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2318/are-there-kegel-exercises-for-men-plus), which always makes me giggle. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/13 "2009-01-19T17:35:34Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [My favorite](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2318/are-there-kegel-exercises-for-men-plus), which always makes me giggle. Huh. Those of us who dislike him would probably point to the exact same one (that’s just nasty). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/14 "2009-01-20T08:46:09Z")
Sometimes (not often) I think they’re clever or funny, but always I think they’re ugly. Slug Signorino’s stylistic choice is one I have always found repulsive. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/15 "2009-01-20T19:43:33Z")
This column has my favorite Slug illustration. > **[If cat poop is so toxic to pregnant women, why aren’t there more birth...](https://www.straightdope.com/21343759/if-cat-poop-is-so-toxic-to-pregnant-women-why-aren-t-there-more-birth-defects-can-cat-poop-cause-sch)** 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/16 "2009-01-20T20:21:46Z")
> [@Fear\_Itself](#): > > [My favorite](http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2318/are-there-kegel-exercises-for-men-plus), which always makes me giggle. Oh c’mon, that’s just vile as well as ugly: is splashing that on the entrance page meant to _attract_ people? I submit that anyone posting a link to an image like that in a thread would be summarily warned not to do it again. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/17 "2009-01-20T22:18:25Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > While the management is upgrading the look and feel of the website a bit in order to lure more punters into the joint and part them from their doubloons, is it at all possible to upgrade the quality of the retina-thrashing cartoons that grace the home page? _De gustibus_ and all that, but they are baboon-startlingly ugly well beyond the point of being downright off-putting. I know the present illustrator has been doing them for a while, and his sub-Robert Crumb stylings may have had a certain hemp-scented charm in a free local rag back in 1973, but 36 years later they should be decently interred in a none-too-salubrious ditch somewhere, preferably under a decomposing tramp to prevent the casual passer-by from investigating too closely, instead of continuing to scorch corneas on the entrance to the site. This. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/18 "2009-01-20T22:33:31Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > While the management is upgrading the look and feel of the website a bit in order to lure more punters into the joint and part them from their doubloons, is it at all possible to upgrade the quality of the retina-thrashing cartoons that grace the home page? _De gustibus_ and all that, but they are baboon-startlingly ugly well beyond the point of being downright off-putting. I know the present illustrator has been doing them for a while, and his sub-Robert Crumb stylings may have had a certain hemp-scented charm in a free local rag back in 1973, but 36 years later they should be decently interred in a none-too-salubrious ditch somewhere, preferably under a decomposing tramp to prevent the casual passer-by from investigating too closely, instead of continuing to scorch corneas on the entrance to the site. On behalf of illustrator Slug Signorino, let me say thank you, **Scissorjack**. This is high praise indeed. ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/19 "2009-01-20T22:36:40Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > On behalf of illustrator Slug Signorino, let me say thank you, **Scissorjack**. This is high praise indeed. Ha! ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849/20 "2009-01-20T22:40:58Z")
> [@Scissorjack](#): > > Oh c’mon, that’s just vile as well as ugly: is splashing that on the entrance page meant to _attract_ people? If it repels whiners and prudes, I’d say Slug earned his keep. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-it-possible-to-get-better-illustrations-for-the-home-page/481849.md?page=2)