When I tell someone I draw cartoons, invariably, the question comes up, "Where do you get your ideas?" I thought I'd take Mondays and pull a cartoon from my archive and give you an idea as to how I came up with it.
Today's cartoon is based on an old vaudeville joke. The gag went like this:
Did you hear about the man with five penises?
His pants fit like a glove.
I always thought this joke was funny, but I knew it wasn't appropriate for a newspaper. The 'fit like a glove' line gave me a snapshot in my head and I drew the cartoon around the suit actually being a glove. By the way, the tailor in the drawing is an old friend of mine. I used him over and over in various forms until I came up with the Funday family I use today. Where the name, Mr. Abernathy, came from, I have no clue.
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