My fears were confirmed ... you can't really read it (but if you click on it, it magnifies, like magic!). This is my first horse racing political cartoon. I figured there is a market for this sort of thing. There is certainly enough to poke fun at in horse racing and if you can sketch a bit, you may have something. Here we have Jerry Moss (left) and Jess Jackson to the right. Moss is trying to convince Jackson to race on the Pro-Ride. Jackson is trying to get Moss to imbibe more wine. Zenyatta and Rachel Alexandra sit in the middle, rolling their eyes thinking, "Men ... "
Have you seen early Far Sides, Calvin and Hobbes, Garfields, and Get Fuzzys?
Don't be hatin' just yet!
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Not a bad first effort. Mind you, this coming from someone, myself, who is definitely NOT an artist.
There should be this sort of thing one or more of the racing pubs.
I've seen what amounted to giant political cartoons (or caricatures, anyway) as the cover of DRF before; all the entrants in the Preakness, etc.
I think it's worthwhile.
Definitely worthwhile...someone has has to fill in the void left by PEB.
haha are those crayons??
No, no crayons. Crayola colored pencils!
I probably could have said that this was my 3rd grade art project and you would have believed me!
Thanks for the laughter and comment.
Hey, Brendan, your cartoon was good enough to make "Best of the Blogs" at Paulickreport.com. Enjoy the attention!
That's funny! Thanks for the alert!
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