Cow Tipping

Hello! So as I type this it's about 10:30 Sunday night and after being woken up this morning at about 5:45 or so by my 2 boys, I'm pretty tired. Just finished off this cartoon, so I think I'll keep this one brief so I can go to bed....

Brainstorming the other night and found a note that simply said "Cow Tipping" and thought I'd give it a go. Now my first thought was cow tipping at a restaurant or something, but I thought that's probably been done before and after a quick Google search I found that was the case. Quite a lot of other cartoonists had done something similar, which was pretty much about cows tipping or not tipping. So I thought I'd look at it from another angle and think of some other types of  "Tips" and being the gamer that I am, I very quickly came to the good old game 'tips'. And you know what else? I freakin' hate these guys who 'back seat game' on you and tell you what to do while you're playing. Especially you know what you're doing, ahhh!

Anyway I'm going to bed, good night....

Mike 

Limited Facial Vocabulary

This weeks idea came from my mate Ben, who has a secret crush on Kristen Stewart, who posted a funny image on my Facebook wall about her and her lack of facial expression. Here it is:

I saw it and for some reason I thought I'd set myself the challenge this week to do a Kristen Stewart joke. Now, I'm pretty sure if I wouldn't have thought of the whole robot angle if not for the help of my son Dash I have to admit. As last week, all he's wanted to watch on TV is his DVD's of Rob the Robot over and over, which I think influenced my thought process. Well, that's what I'm assuming anyway, maybe I would have got there anyway, who knows.

I think a rough version of the final idea, I got quite quickly, but I did keep working on it to see if I could improve it somewhat, or think of something better. For awhile there I was actually going to go with something about Facial Recognition software, whether as a machine at the airport or an App I wasn't sure. But I really liked the punch-line of this idea, the "That's 18 more than Kristen Stewart has", which was what made me go back to this idea in the end.

You know what? I'm just impress by the fact that this cartoon has the word "Facial" in the titled and it's pretty much a clean joke! There's a pat on my back right there...#pat#pat# Ahhhhhh, that's good.

Mike

Sexual Predator

I've mentioned a couple of times here just how much I tend to scrutinise all the statistics of this blog, such as pageviews and traffic sources. Being as this is a Google based blog, I get detailed stats on what Google search leads people here. Gotta tell you, there's some strange and interesting keyword searches that's for sure. The other day I had a look for the search words for the previous week, which looked like this:

Now I can understand most of these...except a couple there, yep, you know the ones I'm talking about. I wonder just how disappointed the people were who looked for "Slaughtering women the cocks and..." and "Blowjob on the phone cartoon insta..." were? Anyway, I posted the above photo on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter as I'm a social media whore, and my friend Bec mentioned the "Comic predator porn" one. Which I didn't think anything of as I knew it was because of the Predator cartoon I did (http://brinkscartoons.blogspot.com.au/2011/10/sly-predator.html) but she thought it was someone looking for sexual predator porn. Which, she may be right, so I really do hope that weirdo was disappointed. But it got me thinking about "Sexual Predator", which led to this new cartoon. I did spend a fair bit of time Friday morning working on some ideas while I was out for lunch and it did take me awhile to get this one out in the end. I thought of many different ways to visualise "Sexual Predator", like a teenage Predator getting a boner in a high-school class full of humans, a Predator in a human porn movie (I was going to do another "I've come to clean zee pool" again) just to name a few. As usual I was panicking a bit on the drive home as I didn't know what cartoon I was going to drawn that afternoon and boom! After thinking and thinking about Sexual Predators (never thought I'd say that) it came to me, a Predator hiring a prostitute! You think I'd have more faith and confidence in my ideas process by now wouldn't you? Nope, I still panic just beforehand...mind you if I was more organised and had final ideas ready to go before the day I have to do them then all would be good, but hey, I am the master of procrastination....

So I spent a couple of days debating whether to have the caption "Sexual Predator" on the bottom of this cartoon or not, as it's the title of the blog post and all. In the end I was worried that the joke might get missed if someone didn't see the title (especially if the cartoon is seen outside the blog as just an image) so I just put it in there. Which does kind of bug me, as you may know, I like people to think a bit to get a joke rather than just spell it out for them, it's more fun that way. And my favourite jokes always tend to be ones like that, hence also why I prefer them. Oh well, what do you think? Does it work as well without the caption?

See you next time!

Mike   

That's Not Mayo

Hello again my good friends!

I really do enjoy dissecting my ideas and detailing just how I get them on this blog as one of my initial goals when I first started this blog was to make it informative as well as funny. So I hope you guys all like it as well. But you know what, sometimes I just see or hear something and the complete idea pretty much just pops into my head. It doesn't happen very often and it only ever happens because I've spent years and years of my life trying to brainstorm and think up funny cartoon ideas. Can you guess where this going and how I got this idea? Yep, I saw on a menu the other week a "pulled pork sandwich" and boom! That's all it took. You see "pulled pork" and think "hmmmm, tasty", I think about a pig getting jerked off in a kitchen. Honestly there are always a few key buz words that always make me think of something crude that can sometimes lead to ideas, like: "pull", "load"and "jerk" just to name a few.

So no real in-depth story for this week, maybe next time ;-)

Mike