Somebody somewhere should appreciate when I take a national issue and make a local cartoon out of it.  That means I can’t do it for the syndicate, I won’t receive any cool reprints in Newsweek and I won’t get an extra check for it.  Someone, somebody, give me an "attaboy".

I got a phone call this morning from someone high up.  I was expecting him to start barking at me in a furious manner, but then it turned out, he loved the cartoon.  That’s the second time this week I received a call from someone in a position I did a cartoon on, and they loved it.  I’m feeling kinda down about this.  Where’s all my haters?  Someone needs to tell me I really suck before I get seriously depressed over this.

Here’s a rough.

I had an idea on Miss California and Donald Trump but nobody got it.  So it had to die.  The idea was stupid, funny to me, and really disgusting….so you know I really wanted to draw it.  Here’s that rough.

Three people saw this and didn’t understand the Apprentice reference, the "you’re fired" reference, or the topless guy reference.  I lost a great opportunity to draw a fat guy with ugly man nipples and nasty shoulder/back hair.