A light came on upstairs so to speak with this cartoon that has quickly become one of my favorites.  I can always tell when I like a particular cartoon because I spend twice as long making the cartoon as I do any of the others.  Also after the cartoon is made I quickly make it my wall paper on my computer screen, I made it my profile picture on my Facebook profile and I scan in my pencil and sketch book drawings to show off in my blog.

Right now what I like most about this cartoon is that it reminds me about how much unrest there is in this country right now.  With the economy going to the pits and everybody hating each other politically, it seems like no one is looking to the light at the end of the tunnel.  I can’t watch the news anymore since it depresses me and I can’t go ten feet down the street in San Francisco without seeing a newspaper headline about the end of the world.  Maybe the light did burn out at the end of the tunnel?

So my cartoon simply explains that we have a crew working on fixing the light so in the meantime we should take a deep breath and wait for it to turn back on.  When I first thought of this cartoon my first thought would be to make the light at the end of the tunnel be a “spot light” like the ones you see at grand openings and shows with a lot of pomp and circumstance.  But I later realized that (more…)