#163: Creeps!
A bucket fulla weirdos
Sofia here. In that game recognize game, cartoonists recognize creeps: we are, after all, professional lurkers. Where better to make keen observations about human nature than from the outside looking in? We not only draw marginalia; we are marginalia. And so, this week, an ode to creeps, in all their outcast glory.
Look, I'm not thrilled to learn about God being a little creep either, but at least now we know he's real. I remember the days when we would mumble at statues and hope for magic tricks. Isn't this better?
For the record, I think anteaters are very cute and not creepy at all in real life. Except for the fact that they have 5 inch long claws for fingers. Focus on the nose and tiny little mouth at the end of it.
I drew this cartoon during the New Yorker Cartoon Challenge when I taught Nick Offerman how to draw a gag and yes it was the highlight of my life.
If you're going to be a creep, be hot and charming about it—that's just called romance.
I've spent my whole life looking for Arnold.
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