Humor: the air we breathe?
IN hahaha and OUT hahaha
Sofia here. When I was six, I won a breath-holding contest. It was in gym class, against Nisa Harper, and it was no contest: for what seemed like minutes after she had collapsed, gasping, onto the side of the track, onlookers noted my bulging eyes and puffed cheeks and yelled in wonder at my insane ability to survive without oxygen flow. I was a winner! I was amazing! I was the incredible airless girl! It was what I was most known for, until a few weeks later when I peed myself in front of the whole class.
After twenty-six years, I’m ready to come clean about something: I wasn’t holding my breath! I was breathing with my nose, very slowly. I’m pretty sure that Robert Granger was onto me, because he started to lean closer to examine, but I shot him a look so dirty he never spoke to me again. Not even in high school, when he was dating my best friend! The truth of the goddamn matter is, you gotta have air. If anyone tells you that they don’t need it, they’re probably lying, and, come to think of it, it’s possible they were also lying about how their mom let them stay up until seventy-two o’ clock one time. Not me, though: my mom really did.
Take a deep breath, because the toons below may disrupt your air flow.
Polly Adams
You know what they say. If you don’t have anything nice to say, whistle.
It's so fun to go out in the open air, on a lovely hike, on the estate of an author you love, and find out they once owned slaves. I'm telling you, the rumors are true, nature IS refreshing!
David Ostow
I like this cartoon because we’ve all been in this situation, right?
Akeem Roberts
Before the Fish Tube/Salmon Cannon was invented, this was how fish traveled to visit their extended family.
Ellie Black
For some reason my mind leapt straight to superheroes for this one. I didn't come up with lore for this superhero when I was drawing this cartoon, but I guess now I know that it can fly!
Ellis Rosen
All I need is the air that I breathe and about ten million dollars.
Asher Perlman
I never want to be on a plane that malfunctions, but I want to use one of those slides so bad.
Jason Chatfield
If we could harness the hot air that gathers under the rotunda in the US Capitol building we could power seventeen thousand Tesla stations. But alas, it has those little ventilation gaps, which are always hard to draw. Anyway here's a cartoon about balloons and jousting.
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