This Week's New Yorker Caption Contest

Here is my entry in this weeks New Yorker Caption Contest. Each week they provide the image and you provide the caption.



It’s amazing how far blackmail can get you around here.





Here's the leftovers...


I think I picked up the wrong gym bag this morning.

Wow, this side of the job is WAY easier!

This guy's never read Tom Sawyer apparently.

They're really shaking things up over here!




Here's this weekends nominees...




“Mom said you were supposed to take me to the game.”
Submitted by Laura Lea Cobb
Starkville, Miss.

“I’m trying to raise money for our squad. Would you like your plane washed?”
Submitted by John Riley
Issaquah, Wash.

"I don't think you'll be too pleased with your new uniforms, either."
Submitted by Gary Osheroff
Pasadena, Calif.


I entered...
"We were bought by Hooters Airlines."

Tracy Update

Tracy just got accepted into the 2010 Detroit Independent Film Festival! The festival is sometime in March, I don't have the exact date of the screening yet, but I'll let you know as soon as I know!

- Dan

Comics from Tracy

In our film "Tracy" we had a scene featuring one of the characters secret comic book collection. We created over 30 original comic book covers, most of which go completely unnoticed in the 3 to 4 minute scene. For the next few months I'll post one a week so that they can finally get their due.

This is the second in my two part series honoring the "Comic Character Holding a Dead Comic Character" series where one character carries another dead character whilst screaming to the heavens. This is the "Pogo-esque" version.

This Week's New Yorker Caption Contest

Here is my entry in this weeks New Yorker Caption Contest. Each week they provide the image and you provide the caption.


"You should schedule an abduction at least once a year."




Here's the leftovers...



It’s kind of the go-to Halloween costume for us proctologists.

Don’t worry my people train for this our whole lives.

I lost a silver space probe, would you mind getting up? You might be sitting on it.

I find the mask helps break the ice for what’s about to happen.

We’re gonna run a few test, then leave you naked and shivering along a country road.

What did you think universal health care was?






Here's this weeks nominees...



“I say we start the meeting without him.”
Submitted by Mark Templeman
Richmond, Va.

"I'm here to fix the coffee machine."
Submitted by Elana Klein
Brooklyn, N.Y.

"You're right. We'll need a second stimulus plan."
Submitted by Michael Harrington
Seattle, Wash.

I entered...

I'm afraid your weekend is still experiencing delays.

Dog Toy Painting Series

No dog toy painting this week as Michele and I are on vacation in LA relaxing by a freezing cold pool. Here's a new dog drawing I did for our Dog Carol's doggie daycare, Bark to Basics. Carol is there now, and is probably having a better time then we are.

Coast to Coaster

I have a dream of one day traveling the country from the East coast to the West coast, drinking at bars and writing stories about the strange people I meet along the way while drawing silly pictures on the back of bar coasters. I plan on publishing my findings in a coffee table book called "Coast to Coaster". This drawing of a fat kitty was inspired by the wet ring made from my Sazerac at Koko, one of my favorite bars in San Francisco.

Comics from Tracy

In our film "Tracy" we had a scene featuring one of the characters secret comic book collection. We created over 30 original comic book covers, most of which go completely unnoticed in the 3 to 4 minute scene. For the next few months I'll post one a week so that they can finally get their due.


"Super Bum" was actually the first comic I did for the film. I did this after a junkie on the bus sat next to Michele and accidentally scraped her arm with his long, yellow, coke nail. In reality she didn't get super powers, but she did probably get Hep C.

This Week's New Yorker Caption Contest

Here is my entry in this weeks New Yorker Caption Contest. Each week they provide the image and you provide the caption.


"We were bought by Hooters Airlines."









Here's the Leftovers...


You have a run in your landing gear.

Touch Down!

It's Casual Friday.

It's Sexual Fetish Friday.






Here's this week's nominees...





"I liked my old spin class better."
Submitted by Hal Mason
Wellesley, Mass.

"We're graduate students doing a study on lost socks."
Submitted by David Block
El Cerrito, Calif.

"Be careful, these machines are self-loading."
Submitted by Jerome O'Brien
Springfield, Va.


I entered...

"This is the only way to keep perverts from stealing our underwear."

Bettered!

Here's a fun prank! Next time you see a homemade sign at a local store, design a better version using as many of the original elements as possible. Send it to the store, tape it over the original, or email a before photo along with your new design and I'll photoshop it for you, then you can proudly call out "BOOM! You just got BETTERED!"

I see this sad tip jar at my local pizza place every week...



BOOM! You just got BETTERED!!



Remember, you don't have to be a great artist or designer, you just have to be better than the cook or cashier that drew the original.


-Dan

Dog Toy Painting Series

Here's a new painting from my series featuring the toys of my seven pound dog Carol. Here's another take of Carol's toy Draculady. This one represents her actual green color. First painting of the new year!

Comics from Tracy

In our film "Tracy" we had a scene featuring one of the characters secret comic book collection. We created over 30 original comic book covers, most of which go completely unnoticed in the 3 to 4 minute scene. For the next few months I'll post one a week so that they can finally get their due.

I did one based on the popular Japanimation style children's cartoons of the 90's. Remember those classics? No? Oh, that's probably because they were terrible.

This Week's New Yorker Caption Contest

Here is my entry in this weeks New Yorker Caption Contest. Each week they provide the image and you provide the caption.


I'm afraid your weekend is still experiencing delays.












Here are the left overs...



I’m prepared to offer you 25 cents and a bottle of Night Train for the entire company.

Maybe you should call the gas company.

I don’t think you’re employees are filling out their time cards honestly.

I guess the entire company couldn’t live off your salary.

I suppose we should have fired some people when we downsized.

I'm sorry, but anti-depressants are not covered under your company's health care plan.










Here's this weeks nominees...





"I feel like seafood tonight."
Submitted by Mike Sellers
Newtown, Pa.

“I don't want to hear again about the one that got away.”
Submitted by Jo Minow
Chicago, Ill.

“And what does she have that I don't?”
Submitted by Christo Phillips
Brooklyn, N.Y.

I entered...

"Well maybe you should get a fish penis. Did you ever think of that?"

Comics from Tracy

In our film "Tracy" we had a scene featuring one of the characters secret comic book collection. We created over 30 original comic book covers, most of which go completely unnoticed in the 3 to 4 minute scene. For the next few months I'll post one a week so that they can finally get their due.

I did this one based on a screenplay Michele wrote, about talking underwear that's tired of being dumped on.


After shooting this prop comic for the movie we later made the first act of this story into an actual comic book in 2006 called "Unmentionables" and had a great time selling it at Comic Con.

this Week's New Yorker Caption Contest

Here is my entry in this weeks New Yorker Caption Contest. Each week they provide the image and you provide the caption.


"This is the only way to keep perverts from stealing our underwear."









Here's the leftovers...

Somebody’s in here!

Can you spare a few quarters?

And I thought sitting on them felt good!

I claim squatter’s rights!







Here's this week's nominees...





“Let Table Seven know that there will be a slight delay on the risotto.”
Submitted by Teresa Palomar
Baltimore, Md.

“This is why I don't need cable TV.”
Submitted by Jamie Scott Picon
Methuen, Mass.

“There's always room for cello.”
Submitted by James Ninivaggi
Ridgefield, Conn.



I entered...

"Where did you say you got those mushrooms for the portobello salad?"

A Fun Night at a Historic San Francisco Bar

Michele and I wrapped up 2009 by taking a trip to a local bar with an impressive history. The bar is called "Tosca Cafe" in North Beach and I highly recommend you check it out. We've been to Tosca before, but the other night really reminded me just how special this place is, as you can tell from the pictures of Michele and I taken at Tosca's Cafe below ...





















The bar has been around for over 80 years, and is known for it's signature Irish coffee drink. We started the night with two steaming hot glasses, and all I have to say about that is Yum! Here's a picture of me thinking about having another of those chocolaty sensations. Can you tell I'm conflicted?
















Another great thing about Tosca is it's a favorite watering hole to celebrities like Johnny Depp, not to mention local Bay Area celebrities like Francis Ford Coppola, Sean Penn and probably Robin Williams! Tosca's is also known for encouraging celebrities to feel comfortable during their visit. They want the celebs to know that they won't be gawked at like they might at other bars. I got a taste of this treatment first hand when I noticed several people at the bar staring at me as I took this picture of myself...






















They must have recognized me from my blog. But did they come over and bother me? No! They kept their distance, because Tosca has created a cool, relaxed atmosphere for all people to feel comfortable and anonymous, which is why the Beat Poets of the 60's called Tosca's Cafe home.



Uh oh, looks like Michele has gotten caught up in the spirit of the Beat generation herself...






























Tosca's Cafe is classic 1930's, right down to the vintage jukebox with original 45 records! That's right, records! Remember those? ( Jukebox just out of view to the right of me in pic. below.)



















So if you find yourself in San Francisco and you're looking for a comfortable place to rest your bones, have a stiff drink, or just plain enjoy a touch of San Francisco's rich history, then my friend, look no further than right here...

















* All pics taken at Tosca's Cafe 2009.