🦃Cartoon thanks to you...
Happy Thanksgiving, and thank you for your support!
Before we head off into the Thanksgiving holiday (at least here in the U.S.), I wanted to thank you SO much for following my work.
And a HUGE thanks to those of you who are kind enough to support my cartooning with your contributions. Like I always say, I couldn’t do it without you!
I’m mostly avoiding the news this week and won’t be doing a new animation, but am sketching while on the road.
Since I apparently can’t help being topical, here are some wild turkeys in a field — looking very different from those monstrous domestic turkeys we associate with Thanksgiving . . .
They look pretty scrawny to our modern eyes, but you can see how they would have been a true feast if you were a Pilgrim in an unfamiliar land (whose life was saved by Native Americans right before you spread horrific diseases and committed genocide).
On a lighter note, here’s a little sketch of the kind of turkey we’ve grown accustomed to seeing, like the ones President Biden recently pardoned.
And since we’re talking about ‘Merica and tradition, I just had to draw a classic Vermont barn at an incredible inn owned by two close friends.
As you can probably tell, I’m more comfortable in the world of cartoons rather than drawing from life.
I just wish I had more time to slow down and draw things that are right in front of me on a regular basis, it’s so meditative — and good to work those very different kind of drawing skills.
I was able to slow down even more last summer . . .
Sketches from the road...
So I loaded up the family for a Fourth of July vacation and left our little liberal bubble of the Bay Area . We’re visiting family up in Idaho and Montana and, as you can probably guess, you see things here you don’t see in the San Francisco area. (Although you could probably drive about an hour and see some of the same sentiment.)
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving — I’ll see you back here very soon!
And thanks again,
-Mark
A friend forwarded this to me, and I wondered why you left out all the turkeys Trump pardoned, after they were convicted for helping him try to overthrow the government?
Diid you know Benjamin Franklin wanted to make the wild turkey America’s national bird, but he got overruled in favor of the bald eagle, which competes with buzzards for road kill, as well as killing to eat?
Did you ever hear the joke about the fellow who went off to his state ag school, and when he came home for Thanksgiving and took his childhood sweetheart out, who was a year behind him and still in high school? After dinner at a local drive in, he drove them to a wooded area where they had done plenty of hanky panky, but she would not comply this time around, and he kept trying, and she kept resisting, and finally he asked what was going on?, and she said, he knew what was going on, and he said he had no clue what was going on, and she said yes he did, because he went off to the ag school, and he said what’s that go tot do with anything", and she said, you know, and he said he didn’t know, and if she didn’t tell him, he was going to leave her out their in the woods and she could walk him, and she said, “Boys that go to that school screw goats, cows, horses, sheep, pigs and turkeys," and he said, “Turkeys?"
Happy Turkey Day, y'all.