Small & Big

Here is the official list of Small and Big's favorite 25 cartoons. This is another one of these exercises I'm doing to hone my humor muscle, wherever that is. 1) Gifted child — by Gary Larson 2) Checking p-mail — by Mike Peters 3) When a tree's alone in the forest... — by Sam Gross 4) Family burdens — by Pat Brady 5) Criminal snail escape — by Charles Barsotti 6) Church of Mathematics — by Bill Watterson 7) Amish midlife crisis — by Harry Bliss 8) Delicious dinosaurs — by Arnie Levin 9) On butterfly wings — by Robert Leighton 10) Ordering the wrong food — by Charles Barsotti 11) Hamster cardio — by Jason Polan 12) Slow love — by Sam Gross 13) Making friends — by Gary Larson 14) Toothpaste personality test — by Evan Fisch 15) E=mc 3 — by Gary Larson 16) Cows rule — by Gary Larson 17) Stop and what? — by Sam Gross 18) Friendly leaves — by Charles M. Schulz 19) Mammoth roles — by Michael Maslin 20) Moon river — by Tom Cheney 21) Leftover Lunch — by Tom Che

Click image above for larger view Honeybees today juggle lots of stuff: the latest disease, staying healthy amongst lawn and garden pesticides, and deciding which delicious flower nectar to suck up next. This little one here has been joyfully workin’ the flowers. Go, honeybee, go! This is my drawing for the Illustration Friday ( IF website ) assignment to illustrate "Juggle". Check out other SMALL & big postings about bees: Bee School The Work Of The Honeybee

Shootin' the breeze, old lady style. I like the contrast on their faces, and especially the expression of the parked woman. Cute little old lady says to another lady sitting in her parked, upside-down car: “Marie, are you still driving?” Go see more of Eldon Dedini's funnies on this New Yorker page or buy stuff with this cartoon on it .

This is the slowest cartoon ever. Sloths are funny that way. Notice how the two sloths hold the tree limb exactly the same way. It’s a study in opposites, a yin yang. I admire Alex Gregory’s clean, deliberate drawing style. Lots of white space, and when he lays down an ink line he means it. Two sloths hang from a tree, and one of them is upside-up. Hanging Down Sloth asks: “How long have you been on antidepressants?” Go see more of Alex Gregory's funnies on this New Yorker page or buy stuff with this cartoon on it .

My, my, my. How Small & Big has grown since its auspicious birth on August 15, 2006. We now possess an audience of over five readers (including parents and pets). In celebration, here's a healthy cake for you, our Favoritist Reader. For best results: 1) Print this page from a color printer 2) Use print-out as a model and bake a cake that looks exactly like it 3) Eat non-paper cake 4) With color print-out, wipe face clean On the day we were borned, we made these three (three!) postings: Born Again - a short story / essay thingy Two Liners - poems Three Liners - more poems Thanks for reading, Poopsies! Hungry for more birthday musings? Try these... So Today's Your Birthday - not that you asked for advice, but... Separated At Birth? Stephen Colbert And My Cat - hee hee... huh? (and the follow-up, How My Cat Is Unlike Stephen Colbert ) You Are No Longer A Baby Elephant - layin' on some serious advice Delicious cake decorated with cute vegetables from www.kitchengard

That’s me in the black suit there, buying into obsolescence. I’m searching for a camera with built-in Macrozationals for picturizing teensy-weensy stuff, No-Manual-Reading-Because-I-Won’t-Anyway, and a price nearest to $0. At the precise moment you buy a spiffy cool new technology it has officially become obsolete. I prefer buying a car. I buy one, drive it off the sales lot and see its value drop by only 66%. Unlike today's technology, cars also include useful accessories like mirrors, cup holders, and built-in chairs. A man shops for a new camera. The salesperson points out, “And this light here lets you know when the camera is obsolete.” Go see more of Alex Gregory's funnies on this New Yorker page or buy stuff with this cartoon on it .

The hype is true! I brought some lady back to life—of a sort. Short story long: I'm one of the posters on A Little Net Story . The blog is based on that game where one person writes a paragraph and then a second person writes the next paragraph, then a third person writes and so on. So I decided it was my turn to write and then I decided to bring freshly shot Ms. Melody Mutterback-O'Knuckleton officially back to the hospital and then that evening, around 9'ish, I decided to clip my nails. I do all my deciding on Mondays. Devoted readers of SMALL & big may notice oodles of k sounds in Melody's name. Earlier in the storyline she had been given the musical name of "Melody" but no surname. Because I now know that the k sound is scientifically preferred by our brain's humor appreciation cells, I gave her a last name and splattered k's everywhere. (The word "subtlety" has no k sound.) Anywho, check it out my plot twist called Part 12 and lemm