Today is the birthday of legendary cartoonist Al Jaffee (March 13, 1921-April 10, 2023). His career began in 1942 & ended in 2020, which holds the Guinness World Record as the longest for a cartoonist. But he is most remembered for the 65 of those years he spent as a contributor to #MadMagazine.
Some days you hold your cat. Some days your cat holds you. 🐾💜
Traditionally the last Friday before St Patrick's Day saw people placing Daffodil petals into envelopes, to send to the Grumpiest individual in the town.
Not to cheer them up, it was to let them know that they were considered to be this individual.
#untruefacts
#FlowersonFriday
#FlowerPowerFriday
Terry "Lacks Self awareness" Christian.
When I reminded him of the toxic, nasty, ugliness of The Word...
He was being Self-righteous and superior at the time.
On a scale of 18th November 1931, being the most whimsical and 16 july 1952 being the least (I'm sure I don't need to elaborate the reasons), how whimsical would you like your #WhimscalWednesday to be?
Here are some #NonsensicalOrnithology being ignored, to help you decide.
#drawingfunnypictures
Eric is the proud Cat of a Cartoonist, and it is a role that he performs with the appropriate amount of solemnity and gravitas.
In fact it wouldn't be unusual to find him spending a morning engrossed in some illustrations of Mr William Heath Robinson.
#ericthecartoonistscat #drawingfunnypictures
Cartoonist & illustrator Rose O'Neill, who created the Kewpie in her comic strips in 1909, which would go on to become hugely popular in the early 20th century. #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalWomensDay2026
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The Broons and Oor Wullie are 90 today...
Here is a 🧵 of Cats and Comics to Celebrate...
#CatsAndComics #TheBroons90 #OorWullie90 #DrawingFunnyPictures
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The Broons and Oor Wullie are 90 today...
Here is a 🧵 of Cats and Comics to Celebrate...
#CatsAndComics #TheBroons90 #OorWullie90 #DrawingFunnyPictures
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The Broons and Oor Wullie are 90 today...
Here is a 🧵 of Cats and Comics to Celebrate...
#CatsAndComics #TheBroons90 #OorWullie90 #DrawingFunnyPictures
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The Broons and Oor Wullie are 90 today...
Here is a 🧵 of Cats and Comics to Celebrate...
#CatsAndComics #TheBroons90 #OorWullie90 #DrawingFunnyPictures
Do you have a letter to post?
Is it's delivery essential
Have you considered Divine Intervention?
Then post it in a postbox outside a Church, like the one outside St Patrick's Church in Castlerea.
Disclaimer: Postboxes outside Churches may not be subject to Divine Intervention.
#postboxsaturday
#FlowerPowerFriday, shall be, for the foreseeable future, daffodil-centric, blessed as we are with an awful lot of them...
But fear not, the #weirdnotwonderful creatures shall highlight the much required diversity we seek...
#flowersonfriday #drawingfunnypictures #beautyinspires
Finishing off World Book Day, with a lit fire, me ol' monochrome mucker Eric wandering aimlessly, a #weirdnotwonderful creature and a Book of the letters from The Master, Mr P.G. Wodehouse
That is my evening all set...
#WorldBookDay #catsandbooks #pgwodehouse #drawingfunnypictures
Upon this #Worldbookday 2026, it would be incredibly commercial and crass, for me to mention my collection of Limericks, Please Return Barnaby.
What would be worse, would be to use the Undeniable Adorability of Sydney to draw attention to it.
I include a photo for example purposes only
#catsandbooks
#Flanders&Swann
First time I've ever heard this one!!
As always, Brilliant!! 🤣🤣👏👏
youtu.be/bkYrj2DQlVc?...
A gentle morning with Sydney and Penelope.
Sydney being our gentle poetic soul and Penelope being Norman Thelwell's hapless equestrian.
In an ugly world, more Thelwell is never a bad thing.
It's Another alliterative morning of, #ComicsCatsAndCoffee.
#DrawingFunnyPictures #nonsensicalornithology
If one may quote the words of The Guv'nor George Herriman.
"Here is where we who deal in naught but "Gentle Humor" Choke with sorrow, look ye well upon this scene, for we cannot tell, nor dwell upon the infamy" - Krazy Kat - July 27th 1919
#KrazyKat #GeorgeHerriman
Sums it up.
An interesting fact about me, Carly Simon once wrote a song about me.
I know what you're thinking, "How vain is this guy?"
But fret not, my vanity doesn't prevent me enjoying #flowersonfriday, like this one daffodil, next to a #WeirdNotWonderful creature.
#drawingfunnypictures #flowerpowerfriday
Bigger creep than Mandelson?
The whimsicality that is #WhimsicalWednesday, perfectly epitomised by our Garden of tranquility, providing a moment of zen to Felines, Nonsensical Birds and #WeirdNotWonderful creatures alike.
They just have one request, do not take photos.
Oh well...
#Drawingfunnypictures #nonsensicalornithology
Mr. Ross is a well known misogynist.
He used to be on a show called, they think it's all over, and the ugliness and nastiness he exhibited was disturbing. (Exposing himself to the audience most weeks for one example)
I too loved the Steve Ditko doc, but I dislike him immensely.
1: I, one day, would love to visit the Musée Hergé in Belgium.
2: if I do ever go, I shall be appropriately attired, not in my dressing gown and slippers.
But the book, the Art of Hergè, allows me to have a gentle, alliterative Morning, of #ComicsCatsAndCoffee, whilst taking in the museums ambience.
Brendan O'Neill says about Mr. Mountbatten-Windsor, "He strikes me as boorish, pompous..."
Which is ironic as that is exactly how Mr. O'Neill has always struck me.
My daily search for irony is at an end for today, I have time to do a jigsaw now.
Yes, but one propped up for years by a fawning, psychophantic, royalist press who applauded Alexander Johnson when he said, "The Royal Family is beyond reproach".
Hope there's much soul-searching within your walls.
In Ireland, it has rained every day in 2026 so far.
But hopefully this shall end soon, and there are signs it will, and #FlowerPowerFriday shall document this, and #WeirdNotWonderful #EnglishAbsurdity.
#drawingfunnypictures #flowersonfriday #BeautyMatters #BeautyInspires
As I have said, on many an occasion, Eric is a Cartoonists Cat, and, it is a role he indulges in, with much seriousness.
In fact many an evening he can be found reading Herge's gentle Comedic masterpiece, Tintin.
#drawingfunnypictures #ericthecartoonistscat #weirdnotwonderful
I was in America when Will and Kate announced their wedding, it was all over the TV news, as an Englishman, I was amazed as I was ambivalent to it...
Truth is, a lot of Americans love the royals...
youtu.be/JcgTa-qmvqA?...
This is great footage but heavily features the back of a man's head. I suspect that this is the same man that I have stood behind at every gig I ever attended. He must be pretty old by now.
