Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Some Days It's Hard To Find A Good Punchline...

Here's the new Alfie cartoon for July's issue of DCM magazine! The top one is the one that's going to print, though the one on the bottom was the original punchline. I changed it late today as I was loading the other editorial to the printer's FTP. I asked a few people when I was having lunch what they thought and they suggested to go with the Scooby line. The problem is that the MacGyver line works better and is funnier, BUT...NO kids (or people under 30) will know who MacGyver was and get the gag unless you watched the show in the 1980's. So much for dated pop culture references...

The Scooby line does work as well in my mind, since it's a tip of the hat to Scooby since I draw that as well, but maybe it means that Alfie watches cartoons when the TV is left on and Scooby is his hero? Hey, it could happen...!