and the Award goes to...

 

Two cartoons this week. Same gag, just two different drawings of the same gag. Can't post both versions on the contest page, so I thought I'd post them both here.

 

The first cartoon is the one I posted. Don't think I'll get many points, having seen the other entries. There's one that screams to me winner, but the voting is a strange thing. Of course before the voting closes I won't comment any further.

Shit Ventriloquist Cartoon.

I had the idea for this cartoon really early in the week. Just needed to find time between contributing towards the Vets Maserati with personal plates fund, and taking official ownership of Riley. Lots of Gottle in this week contest. The theme was set as Ventriloquist. Another word I can't believe I can spell without help from the spell checker. It's a Scottish thing.

This time I did it quicker, but is it any better?

 

I re-drew the cartoon from today's contest. Not allowed to post it of course, but this time took a lot less time, if you know what I mean. The colour version took ages to be honest, and I was not happy with the end results of the drawing, so this took me literally no time at all (well, OK - about 10 minutes, if that). The colour version wouldn't be any good for marketing anyway, as very few places will take full colour cartoons. Well here's another version. Please note: This is the same joke, just a new drawing of it. Based on a theme of "desert Island". From the contest and what not. Posted here and nowhere else. Enjoy. Goodnight.

Just Deserts.

 

This week's contest was set by last weeks winner, Roger Kettle. The theme was "Desert Island". Wide open this week. I like to think I've stuck to the traditional approach to the themed contests, and not used some witty caption to win a crackerjack pencil, but all the others have cheated (with a few exceptions!). It's a classic cliché for cartoonists. I could have saved myself a lot of time and reuse one of the other desert island gags I've got, but I thought I'd do something new. Without a caption. Because it's a theme. 

Just when you thought you'd seen it all....

 

This week's entry in the caption contest. It's actually the second cartoon I drew for it, but I'm only allowed to enter one cartoon. I'll post the other cartoon when the contest closes on Monday evening.

A cartoon that I forgot to post.

I forgot to post this cartoon in last weeks cartoon caption contest. Had it all drawn and ready to go, and then missed the deadline. How stupid of me! Never mind. At least posting it on here I'll be able to witness the strange phenomena of Feedburner numbers going down every time I post something on here. 107 readers at the moment, but strangely this will now drop to about 70 for a while.

Ho! Ho! Ooooooooohhhhhhhhh!

Here's the special Christmas entry on the CCGB forum thingy. They wouldn't let me post it at Easter for some reason. Have a great Christmas everyone, and thanks for reading the blog over the last year. Probably the last entry this year, so Happy New Year as well. Here's to 2011!