I was going through some old sketchbooks yesterday and found this sketch for a Y2K cartoon I was to do when I was a cartoonist for the Oregon State U.’s student paper The Barometer. The cartoon is circled in red.

I drew this sketch in November of 1999. The funny thing about this sketch is the note I made to myself underneath the cartoon. In case you can’t read what it says, I wrote:

“Note to self: Print after 1/1/00 ONLY if the end of civilization doesn’t come.”

Detail below:

I darkened up the pencil yesterday before scanning because the sketch had faded.


Well, since we all know that the end of civilization did not come the cartoon did run.

A previous illustration done. I figured it works for this week’s IF theme–”canned”… because there’s a garbage CAN in the background… yeah, that’s it.

Rayna and I went to see “The Dark Knight” last night and it was awesome!! …Probably one of the best movies I have ever seen. Go see it!