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Double double toil and trouble

By That's life

Witch

Not quite the potion of the witches from Macbeth, but surely just as evil?

As a child I was rather surprisingly taken by the famous witches poem from Macbeth; so much so that I learnt it off by heart at the age of ten. I guess I liked the idea of witches, gruesome ingredients and evil potions. If I could make a potion, I think it would be a truth serum. Yes, not that imaginative, but for some spark, I’d infiltrate the office air conditioning system and watch the fun begin. Evil, aren’t I?

If you could whip up a potion (good or bad), what would it be?

 

Flashback to Doug the dung beetle

By Animals, Dung Beetles

Finders Keepers Cartoon

A bit of a flashback to a cartoon I drew a couple of years back, but this time I have redrawn it in the app I now use for all my cartoons. Since I’ve been accepted into Cartoonstock, I’ve been inspired to redraw some of my favourite cartoons which can’t be included in Cartoonstock’s portfolio because they don’t have the required resolution.

Are there any other cartoons from the past you think I should redraw? Or perhaps, any themes or subject matter you think would work well for sales.

Let me know

Remember Eleanor Rigby?

By That's life

Eleanor rigby

Eleanor Rigby is probably my favourite Beatles song. I remember listening to the quirky words as a child and picturing the whole story unfold in my imagination.

What’s your favourite Beatles song?

Heard of Cartoonstock?

By Website announcements

One Small Step

Cartoonstock.com is probably the largest online licenser of cartoons

Their self professed claim to fame is “Welcome to the universe’s largest cartoon database”

It’s been a goal of mine to make it to their listing of 1,000 cartoonists worldwide and after two attempts over 4 years, I was finally accepted to join the party. I would greatly appreciate it if you visit my listed cartoons by clicking here. If you get seduced to viewing all the other fantastic cartoons on offer and want to find me again, simply go to the search page and sort by cartoonist. Lucky me – I’m third bottom of the list under Zeitler, Martina.

Spread the news!

Sheet music lesson #1

By Pot Luck, Word play

Music

Normally I find Wiki a quick way to learn about something that I have no idea about (at least as a starting point). But this time I was presented with the opposite; having played the clarinet for 5 years I knew what B flat was. However, Wiki’s definition challenged my modest brain matter.

B (B-flat; also called si bémol) is the eleventh semitone of the Western chromatic scale (starting from C). It lies a diatonic semitone above A and a chromatic semitone below B, thus being enharmonic to A although in some musical tunings, B will have a different sounding pitch than A.

Fifty shades

By That's life, Word play

50 shades of blue

Every now and then I dare to check Google to see if my cartoon is already out there. It’s a cartoonist’s worst nightmare (or close to) to publish a cartoon that someone else has already done – similar in notion to inadvertant copying. If you find out afterwards, it’s a bit like going through the seven stages of grief, starting with disbelief and shock (I mean, how could someone else possibly come up with my great, unique idea before I even had a chance to put pen to paper?). Luckily, this time I was relieved to find nothing similar. I found an article titled ‘Fifty shades of blue’, where my heart momentarily skipped a beat. However, it was short lived – It was a blue hair colour dye trend article.

Ever had your great idea trumped by someone else?

PS. If you find a cartoon along a similar vein, feel free to not contacting me with the information 🙂

The office cuckoo

By Work

Frank and the office cuckoo

Two cuckoo facts that you mightn’t know

  • Not all cuckoos are brood parasites (organism that relies on others to raise their offspring), the majority of cuckoos actually raise their young themselves
  • The roadrunner, one of my favourite cartoons, is a fast running ground cuckoo

Roadrunner_looney_tunes

Image credit: Wikicommons

The new work employee

By Animals, Work

The black sheep

Every family has a black sheep lurking in the group and looks like every work office does too. What are the odds that the next employee will be a dung beetle to deal with the droppings? Before you know it, the office will be a full on self sustaining ecosystem.