CARTOONISTS

 John Wagner said, 'Cartoonists are sensitive to the insanities of the world; we just try to humanize them.'

Wagner is the cartoonist that brought us Maxine.  I like what he said about cartoonists, as, when it comes to the human race, I think I see only the insanities, and for most of my years they've helped me to put those insanities into the perspective of our very human civilization(?).  If we are a civilization, we've got to become more civil... especially with 7 billion of us humans now on this small planet. 

 Thank God for Cartoonists... they have helped me so much to get a grip and not take life so seriously.  Cartoonists must be inspired by the Creator, as When you think of the Elephant... The Giraffe... the duck billed platypus, armadillos and all the strange animals that mostly bring a smile to your face the first time you see them... and you think, as a child, there must be some mistake... there can't be an animal like that.  But "The Great Cartoonist from above" created them.   Take a look at the insects: Walking sticks; the praying mantis; June bugs (the way they bump against your screen late spring, then lay on their backs wiggling their legs helplessly waiting for a dog's nose to help right them); .... And look at the birds... the spoonbills, pelicans, and gooney birds, just to name a few; and arachnids...eewwww!  Spiders; etc....


Cartoonists are just drawing people along the same strange exaggerated lines as the Creator drew those beasts for real. And they just explain what my online dictionary on my iMac says about our idiosyncratic ways:
distinctive, individual, individualistic, characteristic, peculiar, typical,
 special, specific, unique, one-of-a-kind, personal; eccentric, unconventional,
 irregular, anomalous, odd, quirky, offbeat, queer,strange, weird, wacky, wingy,  
 bizarre, freakish, abnormal; informal, freaky, far out, off the wall.






My online dictionary just about covers it... the cartoonist does the rest. ;-)