As promised, here’s a slide show of readers’ favorite cartoons. I should say some readers’ favorites—the ones who responded to my request. If you don’t find your favorite here, you have only yourself to blame. You could have e-mailed your pick to me, but you couldn’t be bothered, and now you’ll have to put up with the darlings of others. Look, it could be worse: it could be pictures of their kids.
I’ve always found that, with humor, some will find fault where others find favor. I didn’t need confirmation of this, but I received it via an online comment, from “mgbdesign,” who wrote:
On the personal nature of humor: I was an exhibit designer at the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco, working on an exhibit of Gary Larson’s work that was to travel. I had xeroxed (ha!) copies of some 450 cartoons, and was editing them to fit into a number of panels, each to present 16 original cartoons. I was down to my last bunch just around dinner time. At a large table at my favorite Greek restaurant, I plopped down my “really not funny rejects” pile, face up on the table and continued to sort. The waiter came over and looked at the top image on my reject pile and told me it was his all time favorite! Oh well…
So, with this in mind, let the slide show begin:
