I Spy

The 1st Annual ToonStack Scavenger Hunt

Congratulations, ToonStack reader! You’ve found your way to this email, which happens to contain the 1st Annual ToonStack Scavenger Hunt™ (hold for applause)

Here’s the deal: cartoons take much longer to draw than they do to read, which means sometimes we cartoonists spend time drawing little details that go completely unnoticed. Well, not this week! This week I invite you to spend some extra time with these drawings, which, in addition to being funny, are filled with rich and interesting details I’m sure you’ll love. 

Below is a list of items found throughout the cartoons– can you find them all? My fellow ToonStackers have provided some clues to help you on your search. Happy Sunday and Happy hunting!

-JD

SCAVENGER HUNT ITEMS

• Apple

• Spork

• Cell phone charger cable

• Hammer

• Helmet

• Teddy bear

• Underwear

• Bag of chips

• Three rats

• Seven cats

• Water bottle

• Oreo

• Banana

• Six cocktails

• Three crayons

• Clipboard

• Block of cheddar cheese

• Treachery! (Hint: Amy’s cartoon)

Ellis Rosen 

City sidewalks are to walk

To shuffle to swerve through this and that

No, sir, I don’t have time to talk,

I’m busy avoiding all these rats.

Kendra Allenby

While backpacking, the world is mine

And I think I’ll just sit and shoot the breeze. 

But with my lunchtime errands I barely have time 

To eat enough salami and cheese

Navied Mahdavian

I don’t like drawing, no sir I don’t

And no one can make me, I can’t I won’t! 

Except for cats, drawing them is fine

So here’s a bunch, just shy of nine. 

Hilary Campbell

1 2 3 I lost my keys 

4 5 6 liquor and landlords don’t mix

Amy Kurzweil

1. Comedic timing is my calling 

Your ancestor’s teeth will be my galling

2. She found me with a slither’s tip

I sent them for an awful trip

3. In tunnels, together, we raced the machine

His heart gave out, but my head did gleam

4. Ink and pigment on paper – you chump

I am not what your mind dreams up!

Johnny DiNapoli

At last this email’s come to an end

I hope you’ve had a good time, my friend.

If you’re sick of the rhyming, you’re in luck:

This cartoon’s got the three crayons in it.

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ToonStack NewsStack:

• New book alert! Sofia Warren’s Radical: My Year with a Socialist Senator is out and available to order here.

• Amy Kurzweil teaches cartoon classes on Patreon! Next class is …next weekend Oct 16th! Sign up now to get the recording of every past class!

• Listen to Hilary’s podcast What’d You Do This Weekend?

• Order Send Help! a desert island cartoon collection by Ellis Rosen and Jon Adams, out now!

• Be sure to check out Shelby Lorman’s newsletter, Please Clap!

• The same goes for Sofia Warren’s advice newsletter, You’re Doing Great!

• See more cartoons from Ellis Rosen’s weekly Junk Drawer