Don’t ask me why Klingons as Cling-ons is funny to me but it is. So I had to draw a Captain Kirk lookalike with his pants down around his ankles and Klingon Cling-ons coming out of his butt.
For those who haven’t heard “cling-on” here is the definition from Urban Dictionary:
Toilet Paper that gets stuck up your ass even after you wipe
Poster of this image is now available on my Society6 page.
Etch-A-Sketch inventor Andre’ Cassagnes passed away last month. I never could get that damn thing to work well.
Today’s cartoon highlights one of my biggest process pet peeves when it comes to customer service. In order to get to a live operator, the phone tree forces you to enter your customer id number or your telephone number. Customer ID’s are worse because no one has them memorized.
So after entering said number, you wait on hold, and when finally connected to a live agent they force you to repeat the number. What’s up with that?
Everyone has good and bad experiences with customer service reps but I am interested to know if there are any customer service policies/processes that you find irritating that are outside the control of the reps themselves.
Today’s cartoon was inspired by a Google Plus post by S. Heart. His comment: “Zombie Subway: Eat Flesh” Someone quickly pointed out that someone else already spoofed the name on a tshirt with a Zombie: Eat Flesh logo. But of course I wanted my own Zombway cartoon showing the zombie actually eating a “$5 Footlong”. And by footlong I mean dismembered foot.
Hilarious. I am going to be busy this week so I finished this on Monday and scheduled the post. 5 minutes later I am looking through google plus and see it is all over the place (see here and here) Though so far I am the only one who has played off the $5 footlong. I am sure someone will find it already done.
I have said before that as an artist, it can be frustrating to spend several hours on a piece of work that gets ignored or little attention on social media but I can toss up a picture of my cat and it get tons of attention. So today’s cartoon is another homage to that.
I asked my google plus followers “what trending topic that consistently pops up do you just not get?” Of course I got many but the ones that popped up most were “Cats, Justin Bieber, and Dr. Who.” I get cats and honestly that is the only social media aspect that my wife is remotely interested in and I am guilty of giving into her demands to post our cats on occasion Luckily for me the people I follow are not Justin Bieber obsessed however I constantly see his name as a trending topic. Dr. Who is the one I don’t get the fan love about. I watched it as a kid when we didn’t have cable and it was the only thing on the 5 channels we got. I even tried it again as an adult. Just can’t get into it.
What about you? Any trending topics you find consistently on social media that you don’t get? Oh and first person to name the character on the wanted poster wins…..NOTHING.
Today’s cartoon poster once again is for the wrestling fans out there. I know many of my regular readers aren’t into wrestling but as I have said before I find it funny that people will trace my poster images and I will see them on live WWE events in the crowd. Now if only the WWE would start paying me to put my work on their tshirts. Well, let’s see if my mocking name I titled this will catch on as well.
The three men you see in the image above are three wrestlers. Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre, and Jinder Mahal. Collectively they are known in the WWE as 3MB (short for three man band). I prefer the new name I came up with “Ginger Mac-Hal” which plays on Jinder Mahal’s name.
This actually took me longer than I thought it would in my head. Trying to capture someone’s likeness without their face is tough.
Here they are in image shots from wwe.com for comparison.
For any wrestling fans that want my image as a wallpaper, contact me or comment on the size you would like and I’ll try to make it happen.
Oh and shout out to TK for his great tutorials and images which I used for the background of the poster.
Today will be the last in my series of cartoons about Australia. That is unless I think of something else inspiring before Wednesday. If you look up the driest countries in the world, Australia doesn’t even pop up anywhere in the top. But when you talk continents, Australia is the driest inhabited continent. The prize for overall driest continent would be Antarctica but only a few people who want to do tortuous research live there.
This joke is actually a homage to our tour guide in the Daintree Rainforest who came up with this joke saying we love people to immigrate but please bring your own water.
You would think today’s cartoon has nothing to do with Australia. But you would be wrong. In an effort to conserve water, dual flush toilets have been installed in a whole bunch of places including all the hotels we stayed in. Some, unfortunately, didn’t work as well as others.
For the uninformed, a dual flush toilet has two buttons. One that is a half flush for liquids and the other a full flush for solids. The problem is that in several situations the half flush wasn’t enough to actually flush everything down so it required another push. Usually the second push was the full flush button just to ensure there was no yellow in the bowl. So instead of using half the amount of water to flush, you end up using 50% more than a typical sing flush toilet.
Or maybe it was just operator error.
Today is just a small example of some of the funny hotel charges we incurred while in Australia.
First, I find whether in the States or in Australia, if a hotel charges you for internet access, it will suck. I almost always have that issue when staying at an Embassy Suites for work. Don’t nickle and dime me on internet especially if you can’t get some blazing speeds.
Second, as usual when you eat in a hotel, they always charge you crazy prices. I have learned how to order ala carte or find a coffee shop near the hotel to save money. However, my wife had her first encounter with Vegemite and I can be sure there probably won’t be a second.
GST, or as we in the states like to call sales tax. But of course where I live it is 6.5%. There it is 10%. However, counties and cities in the US add a whole bunch of taxes to hotel stays so as far as overcharging goes, I think we have the Aussies on that.
Sunday/Holiday upcharge. OK to be honest this wasn’t at a hotel but rather a restaurant. See image below:
I might be able to see a Public Holiday Surcharge but a Sunday one. Does everyone get paid time and a half on Sundays? It’s not like they couldn’t have a day off another day of the week.
Finally the biggest real peeve of mine was the surcharge for using a credit card versus cash or ATM. I get it at a small retailer but a HOTEL? This was a first. I would prefer you surcharge everyone and then tell the people who pay cash, you will give them a discount. I know it is the same but it seems a bit more honest.
So any crazy surcharges any of you encountered when traveling?
Today’s cartoon is an homage to the beer of Australia. In America we get Foster’s as pretty much the only import of Australian beers. You know the commercial “Fosters, Australian for Beer.” However, you won’t find it anywhere in Australia and if you ask an Aussie, they will tell you that Fosters is crap they can and market to foreigners (typically “piss” is used in the sentence as well.
Now I am not a beer connoisseur like another in our travel party. I like pilsner and lagers. Don’t like wheat beer, don’t like ales, don’t like Guiness. Hell most of the time a Miller Lite is good enough for me (got to keep my figure you know). The beer whiz in the party thought all Australian beer tasted like piss. Compared to the microbrews all over the United States, it definitely was a much weaker taste. And trust me we went all over. In fact, here is a little taste of what beers I drank.
Tooheys and James Boags (OK I know it is Tasmania not Australia) were probably my favorites. Four X was one my least favorite though it is the most popular beer there.
Sadly there was one Australian Beer that I didn’t get to try… PISS BEER.
From their website:
Aussies have been on the piss, getting pissed, drinking piss, drinking more piss and, most definitely, taking the piss for the past two hundred years. The amazing thing is none of us thought to bottle it earlier. (Too busy getting pissed, probably.)