The Return of Stickman - Easter 2016

I came up with this comic last week and I thought it would be perfect to send out on Easter. If you find a related news article, I would be very surprised.

The Return of Stickman #1594

You should have no problem finding the news item that inspired this strip.

The Return of Stickman #1593

Finding the inspiration to this strip should be a piece a cake. My take on it would be how the insurance adjuster would look at the situation. Calling in that claim would be hard because you just know somebody is going to make a joke somewhere.

The Return of Stickman #1591

The Return of Stickman #1589

The Return of Stickman #1589

Traditional forced pun-driven gag humor. Not my forté.

The Return of Stickman #1588

True story. I wonder if they found her. Maybe she shaved her beard. I thought about doing this strip from the stabber's perspective with her shaving off her beard in a gas station or something. The strip you see was a lot easier to compose as no thinking was involved. I'm all about no thinking.

The Return of Stickmna #1587

There is no news story for this strip. My New Year Resolution is to be less of a @#$%. I'm less than a week into the New Year and I'm already finding it to be a challenge. I used to think I was a nice guy. Now I'm thinking that maybe I've been a bit of a @#$% and should make an effort to be less of a @#$%. But, it's hard. Especially when ____________.

The Return of Stickman #1586

The news story that inspired this strip was pretty straight forward. I man is at a gym working out on a treadmill. A truck crashes through the wall and hits him. It's one of those stories that writes itself.

The Return of Stickman #1585

This strip was inspired by yesterday's strip. There is no accuracy to it because it's 'fictional.'

The Return of Stickman #1584

I think I've left enough clues for you to find the article that inspired this strip.

The Return of Stickman #1581

There have been several times when I've questioned the use of a service animal. Maybe that makes me old fashion. Maybe I just like the idea that the only people who should be walking around with a parrot on their shoulder in public should either be selling photos of the parrot sitting on your shoulder or pirates. But it would be politically incorrect if I said the same thing about monkeys. And for the record, I think everyone should have monkeys.

The Return of Stickman #1580

Cartoonists are always looking to do poop jokes. Don't ask me why. But I've yet to met a cartoonist who hasn't done one. I'm surprised that there are not more poop related cartoons out there.

The Return of Stickman #1579

This really does happen to me. The first time I discovered a piece of art I created in the wild it was like a jolt. When it happens now I revel in those brief seconds where I don't recognize it as my work and I'm busy critiquing it in my head. It pleases me that most of those critiques are positive.

The Return of Stickman #1578

When I was sent this news article I immediately scribbled the first half of the dialog. But it's the last panel that really sells the gag.

The Return of Stickman #1576

I drew this a couple of weeks ago. I've been very lazy about posting my stickman strips. Well, I have a few ready in the hopper so maybe you won't have to wait so long for the next one.

The Return of Stickman #1575

If you have can locate it, the slide show some of the museum offerings are pretty interesting. Some of the wax figures are still recognizable. Others will puzzle you for a while. I like wax museums and dioramas. But I'm not sure I'd have the courage to walk through this one.

The Return of Stickman #1574

I drew this strip a few weeks ago back when the news story first broke. It's been sitting on my desk waiting its turn. Good luck finding the news story that inspired it. Tonight will be the second gather of an online drawing group: Epic Sketch Time.

The Return of Stickman #1573

Yikes! It's been over a month since I did my last Stickman strip. I've been wicked busy doing paperwork this last month. It's been a bit of a drag because I've not had time to draw things like this. Hopefully I will get a chance to draw tonight at a new online drawing group: Epic Sketch Time.

The Return of Stickman #1572

The tragic truth is that you can't take it with you. Most of my house is filled with stuff that has meaning for me, yet have little or no real value to others. Some items might be looked upon as kitschy. I have a large Tunaki piggy bank I brought home from Japan. I associate it with all the good memories of the months I lived there in 1979 & 1980. With age the fake fuzz is peeling off. I also have various gifts that people have given me that hold no value other than they are a gift from a friend. If my wife and I died tomorrow I'm pretty sure that nearly everything we own would either end up in a landfill or would be on a thrift store shelf. I know stuff in my office closet I will never need again. Why do I hang onto it?

 One year I made a New Year Resolution that each week I would fill up a cardboard box (a standard filing box) with stuff that I would either donate or toss. This was a lot harder to do than I thought. I managed to fill up the box only 48 times out of those 52 weeks. It was like pulling teeth. And now I can't even tell you what was inside those boxes. On top of that I noticed a something terrible: I got new stuff to replace the old stuff. So, I didn't end up cleaning out anything at all. The new crap stuff just meant more to me than the old crap stuff.