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Do missionaries have a sense
of humor? When dealing with cannibals, I would
think a sense of humor would be important. I know
if I were about to be eaten by cannibals, I'd try
to disarm them with jokes. I don't think throwing
Bible quotes at them would do much good. Maybe if
you offered them an alternative to missionary meat.
Maybe pizza.
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Hmmm. Is this politically
incorrect? Change it to lions. Lions don't have a
political action committee . . . not yet at any
rate.
Pizza? It must be time
for lunch.
A bit more about not needing art talent to be a
cartoonist. In college I took a two credit art
course and flunked it. My professor said all of my
proportions were off--you might notice that my
character's noses are drawn in proportion to my
character's feet. "Picasso's proportions were off,"
I said to my professor "You're not Picasso," he
replied. Yeah, but I bet more of my work appears on
refrigerator doors, than his.
One of the most successful cartoonists in
Oregon, my home state, is John Callahan, a
quadriplegic. His art work is awful and looks like
it's drawn by a . . . . well, by a quadriplegic.
However, his ideas are good and his work has
appeared in most major magazines. His
autobiography, Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on
Foot, is a must read for anyone interested in
cartooning.
The most frequent question most cartoonists are
asked: "Do you draw for the New Yorker?" "Of
course," I always reply "They, just never had the
good sense to buy any of my work." Hundreds of
other magazines, have, though.
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