#34: Al Gore

A no longer topical cheap shot! Remember our motto about quality control.

#33: Murray breaks a sweat

#32: Harold escapes

#31: Satanic downsizing

#30: Darth Gaydar

Not homophobic! Just being goofy! Don't get offended, huge gay fanbase!

#29: Anti-Carrot Ninja

#28: Scenes from the Hippie Bible II

See also here.

#27: The Pharaoh goes out for a drive

#26: He's established

#25: Kids Can Be So Cruel

#24: The Flower Army

We're not necessarily proud of these puns. Tokyo Rose. Stay, men. Pistil in a holster. Pressing on. The exciting anther.

#23: Everyone loves the French absurdists

This play made a big impression on me as an adolescent.

#22: The political dialectic

#21: Swine Fever

#20: Meet the Family

#19: French authors

Baudelaire. Rimbaud. And, of course, Rambo.

#18: Scenes from the Hippie Bible

In order to "get" why this cartoon was made, you must be familiar with a certain bit of obsolete Biblical phrasing. Knowing that doesn't make it any funnier, though.

#17: Mr. Contrary to the End

#16: Great new comic characters

#15: Sketch of a hand

#14: Gag gifts

#13: Bally's Celebrity Spokesman Series

To fully understand the rationale behind this cartoon, you must know that scrawny, pot-smoking, lite-rock wastrel Glenn Frey reinvented himself (in a sense) with a series of ads for Bally Fitness (like this one) in the late '80s.




















This cartoon is honestly not intended to be sacrilegious, but a comment on the superficiality of health club culture and the dubious prestige of celebrity spokespeople.

#12: The ninja strikes

He's got ninja skills to spare.

#11: Nobody likes a cheat

#10: Everything's funnier in German

#9: All-Purpose Political Cartoon

This was drawn in 1991, at the time of the first Gulf War. Ain't a damn thing changed, of course.

#8: How to draw a lion

#7: Jeff was proud

#6: Casey Stengel

You kids with your PhotoShop and your fancy gadgets won't be impressed, but this bit of nonsense was made solely with MS Paint way, way, waaaayyyy back in 1996 or so.

#5: Santa Ana's Alimentary Canal Among Chrysanthemums

Art can teach us so much about history, anatomy, and botany.

#4: Unfortunately Named Governmental Bodies

Reed is the college I went to.

#3: There's Always One

#2: Gladiator?

#1: The trouble with titles