Cartoons, cartoons, cartoons.... John Crowther's Cartoon Odyssey
I think of it as The Fool's Journey. I've been asked who the "fool" is. It's me, but in the classical sense of the court jester. Only the fool was allowed to tell the king of his follies. All cartoons are available as prints or orginals, framed or unframed, through my website or e-mail. For mugs, t-shirts, and other products visit my gift shop at www.zazzle.com/jcrowtherart* (be sure to include the *).
Friday, January 01, 2010
Thursday, December 31, 2009
HAPPY NEW DECADE
2005. It's coming to the end of the year and I'm winging across the Atlantic going to Italy. The cabin is dark, most passengers are sleeping. I go to chat up the flight attendant and there's this fellow spreading out his prayer rug back opposite the galley, arranged to face Mecca. I run to my seat and get my sketchbook. People have asked me how I know he was facing Mecca. Duh.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
Doggie Tales
I'm saddened by the death last Tuesday of David Levine, one of the world's great illustrators, at age 83. Usually referred to as a caricaturist, he was in fact, like Al Hirschfeld, an amazing creator of what Hirschfeld appropriately preferred to call character drawings. As with the finest magicians and acrobats, one looked at Levine's work and thought, "how the heck does he do that?"
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Tuesday, December 29, 2009
Monday, December 28, 2009
Sunday, December 27, 2009
Immaculate Consumption
The local news yesterday evening reported that after a day of rest shoppers were able to go back to their frenzied search for bargains. I wonder how Jesus would feel about what has become of the day that presumably was to commemorate his birth, a kind of time out to recuperate from unbridled consumerism.













