They say to be careful what you wish for. I guess that also goes for requests. The first time I asked readers to tell me their favorite cartoons, I was thrilled to create a slide show of them. But the second time, when I extended the offer to those who never got around to it the first time, the outpouring of favorites really poured out, and I was a little less thrilled. Not because the selections weren’t great; as you will soon see, they are. It’s just that creating the slide show involves quite a bit of work: finding the cartoons in the database, then getting the files into Photoshop, tweaking them so that they’re acceptable to view online, and so on. I mean, it comes very close to involving real work, which I try to avoid at all costs, especially during the torpor-inducing dog days of August. Still, no minor sacrifice is too great to please you guys, so I’ve prepared another slide show of your favorites.
By no means are these all that were asked for. There were literally hundreds of requests, and early on I had a terrible attack of Lazyitis, so the slide show has a mere fifty or so cartoons. Also, I didn’t see any point in featuring the admittedly great cartoons that everyone has seen so often, like Steiner’s “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog”; Barsotti’s “Fusilli, you crazy bastard, how are you?”; and some other guy’s “No, Thursday’s out. How about never—is never good for you?”
P.S. My protestations notwithstanding, keep sending your favorites to . More slide shows to come.
