# Why do most Cecil's Cartoons have left handed characters? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\ **Created:** [April 18, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542 "2003-04-18T13:58:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![andy\_fl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/49beb7/32.png) [@andy\_fl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andy_fl)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/1 "2003-04-18T13:58:23Z")
I did a search but it did’nt come up with anything. Does having left handed people in a cartoon make it more funny ? ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/2 "2003-04-18T14:06:23Z")
Quick, naive answer: because Cecil is [left handed](http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a5_092.html) himself. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/3 "2003-04-18T14:40:16Z")
Lefties are smarter, aren’t they? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/4 "2003-04-18T14:54:02Z")
It’s a sign of the Mark of Satan upon him. ---
**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2003, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/5 "2003-04-18T15:34:40Z")
I’ll move this thread to Comments on Cecil’s Columns because we don’t have a forum called Comments on Slug’s Illustrations. bibliophage moderator GQ ---
**Author:** ![Alan\_Smithee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/2acd7d/32.png) [@Alan\_Smithee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alan_Smithee)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/6 "2003-04-20T03:28:21Z")
Bt we should! ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/7 "2003-04-20T19:15:13Z")
I hadn’t noticed the left-handedness before, but I assume that Slug models his own hand in the mirror before drawing, and so gets a mirror-imaged right hand (that is, a left hand)? ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/8 "2003-04-21T22:09:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by C K Dexter Haven \* > \*\*I hadn’t noticed the left-handedness before, but I assume that Slug models his own hand in the mirror before drawing, and so gets a mirror-imaged right hand (that is, a left hand)? \*\* Dex that has to be the lamest answer I have ever heard I mean that is the best you could come up with? hang you head in shame:wally: ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 21, 2003, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/9 "2003-04-21T22:53:56Z")
Well, it was an off day. And they’ve taken away my scotch for the week, nothing but slivovitz to drink. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/10 "2003-04-22T01:54:12Z")
excuses, excuses ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Pearse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/richard_pearse/32/13144_2.png) [@Richard\_Pearse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Pearse)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/11 "2003-04-22T12:31:23Z")
Do we even know that the pictures are shown as drawn. They could be flipped in the copying/publishing process. ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2003, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/12 "2003-04-22T13:56:57Z")
I just figured it’s because we lefties are intelligenter. RR ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/13 "2003-04-23T04:07:19Z")
They’re not flipped in the publishing process, because Slug’s signature (for instance) reads correctly. ---
**Author:** ![MonkeyMule](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc348/32.png) [@MonkeyMule](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MonkeyMule)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/14 "2003-04-23T06:18:15Z")
Dex, please. You have yet to redeem yourself in this thread. How the mighty have fallen But I feel sorry for you, where do I mail the booze to? we can’t have lame LAME Moderators ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2003, 6:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/15 "2003-04-23T06:31:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by green\_bladder \* > \*\*Lefties are smarter, aren’t they? 😃 \*\* Nope, can’t be–_I’m_ right-handed! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![cuban\_ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@cuban\_ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuban_ninja)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/16 "2005-01-15T06:15:16Z")
> [@RiverRunner](#): > > I just figured it’s because we lefties are intelligenter. > > RR I don’t know if we are necessarily more intelligent than right-handers but we do tend to be more creative. ---
**Author:** ![Mathochist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c89c15/32.png) [@Mathochist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mathochist)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 8:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/17 "2005-01-15T08:46:24Z")
> [@cuban ninja](#): > > I don’t know if we are necessarily more intelligent than right-handers but we do tend to be more creative. Case in point: intelligence would follow the board standards of not bumping ancient threads. ---
**Author:** ![cuban\_ninja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/76d3ee/32.png) [@cuban\_ninja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cuban_ninja)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/18 "2005-01-15T13:17:15Z")
> [@Mathochist](#): > > Case in point: intelligence would follow the board standards of not bumping ancient threads. GO SUCK ON AN EGG MATHOCHIST. ---
**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/19 "2005-01-15T14:01:15Z")
CRACK!! ::: Moderator cracks whip for attention :::: **Mathochist** , personal insults are not permitted in this forum. You know better and you should be ashamed of yourself. And you’re wrong: the rule about not reviving old threads is not hard-and-fast in this forum. WHen there is already a thread commenting on Cecil’s column, we don’t have a problem with reviving it. **cuban ninja** , personal insults are not permitted in this forum. If you want to tell someone to suck eggs, you go to the forum called the BBQ Pit and start a new thread. When someone insults you outside the Pit, you do NOT insult back. Instead, you hit the REPORT BAD POST button (the little exclamation point [!] in the upper right corner of the post.) That will call the moderator’s attention to the person making the insult, and leave you in the clear. When you insult someone back, then you’re both at fault. ---
**Author:** ![Chairman\_Pow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/838e76/32.png) [@Chairman\_Pow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chairman_Pow)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542/20 "2005-01-15T14:42:49Z")
> [@C K Dexter Haven](#): > > Well, it was an off day. And they’ve taken away my scotch for the week, nothing but slivovitz to drink. As someone intimately connected with the slivovitz industry, I demand you take back the insinuation that the drink is lesser than scotch. Slivovice is an important drink to the farmers of Eastern Europe, where many houses have their own recipies and have been making it themselves for hundreds, if not thousands of years. It is a drink with all the characteristics and subtelties of wine and a bite that will make you glad you’re still alive. That said, don’t drink the Armenian stuff - it will eat through lineoleum. The Hungarian stuff is pretty strong too. Of course, that’s generally all you can get at the corner store, so maybe you just want to wait for the scotch… [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-do-most-cecils-cartoons-have-left-handed-characters/169542.md?page=2)