Paradoxical

Whole lotta forehead

Haven't really cartooned for a while. Life and work get busy. But I'm making a concerted effort, so there will be some new 'Mal•Adjusted' panels posted here this week. Meanwhile, here's just a random page from my sketch pad. One benefit of being an Art teacher is that while the 7th graders are glazing their ceramic coil pots, I can draw. One drawback to being an Art teacher is that then as soon as any of them are done they gather around like seagulls at a beach picnic and watch what you're doing and ask "how are you doing that" with amazement, and ask if they can keep a copy and will you draw Nick Jonas for them so they can hang it in their locker and will you teach us do that? Etc. etc. etc.

As usual, this was just a random picture from some farming magazine. Although it did end up looking a little like one of my college professors, but he was a professor that I really liked, so I'd hate to make fun of him. The lines are a little shaky. I think my blood sugar must be taking a dive. Time for lunch. I hate diabetes.

Just for the heck of it

What can I say? I have no time to cartoon this week, I ran across this in an old notebook and I knew this corny joke. Considering the bear market we're in, "I thought, what the heck?"

Dumb ideas #347

Get to work

This is my version of Dilbert's "pointy-haired boss." Actually it's loosely based on a combination of Joe Santos (Sgt. Dennis Becker on the Rockford Files), James Gandolfini (Tony Soprano) and Danny DeVito (Louie on Taxi). In case you're wondering, my principal looks more like Joaquin Phoenix and I don't think I'd have the guts to characterize him no matter how frustrating the bureaucratic hoops we have to jump through as teachers get. I wouldn't want his job, he does the best he can. But lets face it, I'm sure plenty of my students think I'm as mean as this cartoon boss some days. Just part of life (see student's drawing of me in the previous post).

Pencil sketches

Here's a couple more pages from my assignment book when I took a cartooning class at Scottsdale Community College. Think that I felt like teachers were kind of intimidating?

Teachers Point us to the Future

Here's a page from my assignment book when I took a cartooning class at Scottsdale Community College, home of the Fighting Artichokes. Notice our teacher liked my work!