Here is a cartoon I did. My first and last. Promise.

[applegrove]

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. are peaches attacking us?

:scared:

[applegrove]

3. He thinks he is Churchill amongst many lauded War leaders...so..

[Quantess]

14. That would be a good toon too.

...peaches being thrown at Bush...

[CrazyOrangeCat]

2. by garsh, applegrove . . .

. . . i think you've captured his tiny twisted soul.

[applegrove]

4. All tie no suit too!

[Demit]

5. But...but...I want the series! "...on the landing grounds, in the fields, in the

streets..." You can't stop now! Get punning!!

(I love your, ah, simple linear style, shall we say.)

[applegrove]

6. Yes I'm very talented at sketching. Writing too! LOL

[Kelly Rupert]

7. Needs a bit of refining, IMO.

Maybe I'm just being critical, but It's hard to get the joke, and when you do, it's not satisfying. I assume this is going for wordplay on Churchill's famous speech. It just doesn't flow for me; the pun is a bit of a stretch, and can't carry a whole comic. Now, if I were to do the idea, I'd make it more text-heavy. I'm hoping here that the sum force of mild puns (but mostly rhythmic parallels to Churchill's speech) will outline a contrast between Churchill's war of survival and Bush's war of politics, carrying the comic.

TITLE: "THE NEW CHURCHILL"

BUSH STANDING IN FRONT OF BANNER READING "SURGE."

"I will go on to the end, I will fight on TV and the papers , I will fight with growing confidence and growing strength on the airwaves, I will defend my legacy, whatever the cost may be, I will fight the impeachment, I will fight the indictments, I will fight in the House and the Senate, I will never surrender!"

Yours is a good start for a comic, but I'd go through a few more revisions (I'd revise my above concept two or three more times if I were serious about it). Comedy is hard work.

[applegrove]

8. Yours is much better than mine. Like I said..it was my last try. You got

it. You made it. You did it! I started with one concept and didn't think very hard after that. Obviously I have no idea about comedy. But I felt like drawing it out..then I posted. And thanks for your commentary/criticism. It is helpful.

[Rock_Garden]

9. applegrove, you're a minimalist genius!

I see the beauty in it. James Thurber got famous drawing like that.

[Kelly Rupert]

10. Don't think I'm ragging on you.

Yours has a quality all its own. I took it one direction, you're taking it another. I wouldn't stop making cartoons, though. You've got talent.

[applegrove]

11. No your advice was welcome and helpful.

[blm]

12. hey, you took a risk and stuck your neck out... few do that in life and in politics.

I applaud.

[applegrove]

16. I didn't really stick my neck out. I know my own talent. But was fun to

download something original. Now I can buy that copy of Time Magazine's Person of the year..because it is about "me" and my original content. LOL

[zanne]

13. Reminds me of the SNL skits...

Do you remember the "court drawings"? They couldn't afford an artist to draw sketches of court scenes, so they drew stick people. Hilarious.

[applegrove]

15. I'm glad you laughed somehow. Yes - I'm very proud of my stick person.

[zanne]

17. If I had to draw a comic strip...

Everybody would be a stick person. And there would be stick dogs, cats and birds.