Johnny Appleseed Cartoon

It's September in Fort Wayne and that means all kinds of area fall festivals. The biggest being The Johnny Appleseed Festival starting this weekend. Lots of crafts, food, games, humans and usually bees. It's the one festival that my wife and I often avoid because of the large crowds and parking situations. But to be honest, if we don't go, I often suffer from avoidance remorse. I think that I should've just paid the $8 or so to park and walked shoulder-to-shoulder with the citizens of Northeast Indiana through the trails of funnel cakes, turkey legs and famous root beer.  So, what about this year? We'll probably see you out there. 

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Free Cartoons For Your Presentations, Social Media Pages or Email Newsletters.

Here are a few free cartoons that are yours to use for your personal or business website, Powerpoint presentation, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or other social media pages. Normally, I charge for these kinds of uses, but I'm offering this free offer so you can "test drive" a cartoon or two to see what kind of response you might get. 

Some folks that use cartoons in presentations are doctors, business people and teachers, so below you'll find one of each.

Below each cartoon below is a link to other of my cartoons, that are available for your presentation, website, social media or email campaign for only $20 per cartoon.

Thanks,

Steve

Free Medical, Doctor, Pharmaceutical Prescription Cartoon

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Free Teacher, Education, Computer Cartoon

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Free Business, Receptionist, Administrative Assistant Cartoon

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Past Fort Wayne Magazine Cartoon About Yoga Classes With Gumby

It seems like I've been hearing a lot about yoga recently. Classes are springing up all over town and people are bending over backwards to get in! Fladoomp-Pishhh! (That's the sound of a drummer's rimshot played after comedy gold like my sentence above). Anyhow, maybe that yoga joke is a bit of a stretch, Fladoomp-Pishhh! How do you like that? Another joke and hence, another rimshot. So, I thought I would post one of my past cartoons that I drew for Fort Wayne Magazine that featured yoga as the subject. Here it is. I hope you enjoy it. Want to browse more of my cartoons? Just click here to go to my homepage where you can choose cartoons by subject matter or search by keyword.

Memory Loss Cartoon for Fall 2016 Issue Of Chicago Health Magazine

I love my job. Drawing cartoons and writing the captions are a lot of fun! It can almost seem like playing until I'm asked to come up with ideas with certain constraints.

Obviously, since most of my cartoons are used in publications that are considered pretty tame as far as tone and subject matter is concerned, my cartoons must reflect that same non-edgy approach. That's the first constraint.

Secondly, the cartoon must be in the same ball park in terms of the mission statement of the publication. If it's a magazine that's published for car mechanics, they want to see wrench cartoons, not cartoons featuring fairy tale characters. Also, it's not advisable to draw cartoons that make fun of the readership. A cartoon about unreasonable customers would be better than a cartoon about an over-charging automobile service technician in a mechanic magazine.

Lastly, the the magazine will often have a specific theme for each issue. Like the Food Issue or the Traveling Issue. In those cases, the editors will ask for cartoon ideas that go in tandem with that issue's theme.

That is the case with this cartoon. I was contacted a few months back by the fine folks at Chicago Health Magazine about some cartoon ideas to go along with their Fall 2016 issue. The theme for the magazine was dealing with the very serious subject matter of aging, memory loss and the devastating Alzheimer's Disease. It took quite some time to finally come up with some sketches that walked that very fine line between funny and serious. Here is the result. I hope you like it!

Here's a link to the magazine's website that has a few other cartoons I've had the pleasure to do for them.    

Back To School Clothes Shopping Cartoon

I don't understand why so soon, but it's that time of year again, for going back to school.

Here's a little secret, kids. We of the, shall we say, seasoned population, used to get out of school the first week in June and didn't go back until the first week in September. A full three months. Do you know what one can accomplish in a full three months of vacation? I, for one, logged countless hours of wiffle ball games, kick the can, couch surfing and the relentless badgering of my mom with the age-old question, "Mom, what can I do?" To which, her response was always the classic, "Spit in your shoe. Stir it up and give it to you."

It was the end of August that we would finally muster up the motivation to jump in the car and begin our long foot scuffing, shoulder slouching trek through department store after department store looking for the latest shirt designs, as well as my standard husky sized "Johnny Unitas" corduroy pants. 

Back-to-school shopping is quite different than it used to be. Fashions change, stores change, economics have changed. One thing that hasn't changed it the quest to be fashionable, which is the subject of this back-to-school clothes shopping cartoon. I hope you enjoy it. If not, I'm giving you an "F"! 

Texting Teenager, Conjoined At The Phone Cartoon, Appearing In Brain Child Magazine

The wonderful and supportive editor at the award winning Brain, Child Magazine, once mentioned that she thought it was pretty cool how I never had children, yet I could come up with lots of children related cartoons for her magazine. I thought about and considered that maybe it was because, through my wife, I had inherited quite a few grandchildren. Or maybe it is because of my 50 plus year addiction to Peanuts cartoons. Who knows? My suspicion is that, for almost all of my life, I've had the pleasure of doing young-people-type things as my source of income. Teaching drums, playing in bands and drawing cartoons. If you never saw me and saw my list of jobs, you could easily surmise that I was a 17 year old kid. Mentally, that's not far from the truth. Financially too!

Here's my latest teenager, phone and chores cartoon that appeared on Brain Child's Facebook page today! 

Teacher! That Cartoonist Is Copying That Cartoon Idea Off Me! (Not Really)

Every now and then, I like to post a cartoon that has been published by another cartoonist that has a striking resemblance to a cartoon I've done in the past. I do this, not to indict the other cartoonist, but to illustrate how some funny ideas are just, sort of universal. Sometimes, the cartoons are almost exactly the same. Sometimes, they're just similar.

This morning I was reading the comics page in the local newspaper and ran across a cartoon by one of my favorite cartoonists, Dana Summers. Here's the link.

http://www.gocomics.com/boundandgagged/2016/07/25   

As you can see from my cartoon, shown here, I had a very similar idea a few years ago. I remember not being sold 100 percent on my idea because it seemed a bit "clunky". I just thought the idea of a baby texting was funny, but I had to explain that the message was from a baby so I needed to add the caption. Dana Summers got around this problem by showing the maternity ward and the baby who was doing the texting. Great job Dana!