How One Cartoonist's Mind Works by T. McCracken   The Ultimate Cartoon Cliché? A desert island. You'd think by now every desert island joke out there would have been done, but no. I sell at least one desert island cartoon a month, so a desert island is near the top of my list of locations. List of locations? Yeah, in addition to lists of buzz words and clichés, I make lists of locations, lists of professions, lists of diseases, lists of predicaments, lists of emotions, lists of props, lists of situations, lists of lists, etc. One of my most popular desert island cartoons ideas happened I was trying to come up with an idea about a desert island, a musician, and the phrase, "What luck." Voile. Tweaking that cartoon by changing props and characters I was able to sell it to a chemistry journal. More tweaking and I sold it to a medical journal. I was able to come up with another batch of cartoons by flipping the idea, making it "What BAD luck" Another of my better selling desert island cartoons first sold to a wine magazine. Once again by tweaking characters and changing the props I was able to sell it to to an an agriculture magazine, and many many others. God, I love this job! 1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 / 7 / 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 / 12 / 13 / 14 / 15 / 16 / 17 / 18 / 19 / 20 / 21 / 22 <<<Back . . . . . Next>>> How To Cartoon Cartoons That Can be seen a Page 16 Music Cartoon 5820: A band stranded on a desert isle, seeing a bass player float by cries: "What luck!"   Math Cartoon 5924: A scientist on a desert island with a black board full of equations sees a blank board floating on shore. He cries: "What luck!"   Medical Cartoon 7381: A doctor stranded on an island with a patient looking at another doctor in a raft rowing up says: "What luck! Just the doctor I was going to refer you to."   Wine Cartoon 5368: A man stranded on a desert island says of to a woman who's found a case of red wine washed up on shore, "Oh great. All we've got to eat are fish."   Dairy Cartoon 6930: Someone stranded on an island with some cattle sees a milker wash up on shore. He says: "Oh great. And all I've got is a bull." Want to use any of these cartoons? Want to get any of these cartoons on T-shirts & other stuff? Cartoon Index   email   HOME of www.mchumor.com