Once again I had a difficult time on the idea for tomorrow’s cartoon.  I was committed to doing something on McCain as I thought it was a good issue that he’s the front runner for a party that doesn’t really like him.  All the hard far right wing Republicans are going nuts over this.  Good times.  I decided since I scribbled down so many useless ideas, I’d share them with the blog readers.  Someone came up to me last week and said "I have a question about your cartooning" and I thought "please don’t let it be the ‘where do you get your ideas’ question".  It was.  So maybe by my posting these horrible roughs, you’ll get an idea on where I get my ideas from.  I still don’t know.

The first thing I did was churn out a few McCain sketches.  Ignore the elephant.  That was the start of an idea I didn’t like enough to even finish a rough for.

This idea didn’t really set me on fire.  By the time I got to the second panel I gave up on distinguishing anything.

I kinda liked this second idea except it wasn’t really funny.  Plus, I read a rumor that Nancy Reagan actually likes McCain.  If I would have gone through with this cartoon I would have drawn the Reagan library behind it since that’s where the last debate was held.

This second idea I thought was funny.  I was thinking of Joe Pesci in the movie Lethal Weapon 2, or 3 or 17…well in one of them he complained about how you’re….well…I can’t write what he said but let’s just say you never get what you ordered when you go through drive-thru.  Last time I was told to pull over at McDonald they forgot about me.  When I went inside I talked to them like Joe Pesci would have.

But I thought this idea was kind of a stretch and didn’t know if anyone would get the drive-thru thing.  I didn’t feel like drawing a fast food restaurant but I did like drawing McCain as a burger boy.  Maybe that’s what he’s storing in his cheeks.

I’ll post what I finally went with tomorrow.