Confusing Cartoons

"It's plotted out. I just have to write it."

Artist:
Barsotti, Charles
Search ID:
CC32967
High Res:
2846x2550 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
plot, plots, plotted out, plotting, writer, writers, writing, note, notes, notecard, notecards, note card, note cards, card, cards, author, authors, writing process, writing processes, write, writes, writer's block, writers block, confused, confusion, confusing, circuitous

Too many coxes.

Artist:
Miller, Warren
Search ID:
CC30814
High Res:
2768x1688 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
cox, coxed, coxes, coxswain, coxswains, row, rowing, rows, rowed, single, sculling, scull, sculled, unhelpful, useless, pace, pacing, paces, instruction, instructions, steer, steering, steered, confusing, confused, exercise, fitness, hobbies, sport, sports, shout, shouting, megaphone, megaphones, order, orders

"I always forget - is it Kirsten or Kristin?"

Artist:
Shanahan, Danny
Search ID:
CC121645
High Res:
4000x3024 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
couple, couples, caveman, cavemen, neanderthal, neanderthals, name, names, forget, forgets, forgetting, faux pas, similar, similarity, confuse, confusing, confuses, confusion, memory, bad memory, forgettable, small talk, introduction, introductions, introduce, introducing, mutual friend, mutual friends, friendship, friendships

"Does the No. 1 stop here and does that go to Penn Station and can I get a train there to Philadelphia and then how do I get to Walnut Street?"

Artist:
Dator, Joe
Search ID:
CC134228
High Res:
3006x2524 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
bus, buses, subway, subways, tube, train, trains, tubes, mass transit, mass transits, transport, transporting, transports, direction, directions, confusing, annoy, annoying, talk, talking, advice, advise, adviser, confuse, confused, help, helped, annoyed, annoys, questioning, questions, questioned, public transport, public transports, chat, chatting, local, locals, pester, pestering, bother

"When you say 'my people,' do you mean your tribe or your reps?"

Artist:
Gregory, Alex
Search ID:
CC122257
High Res:
5000x3950 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
my people, native american, native americans, native-american, native-americans, american indian, american-indians, hollywood, hollywood culture, actor, actors, actress, actresses, cowboy, cowboys, confusing, confused, play on words, double meaning, word play, your people, western, westerns, agent, agents, team, teams, jargon, hollywood jargon, filming, recording

Introducing the 1040 - F.I.* Form (*The tax return for the financially incompetent.)

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC29699
High Res:
2199x2374 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
tax, tax season, tax form, tax forms, taxes, confusing, confusion, taxes, financially incompetent, file taxes, filing taxes, tax return, tax returns, accounting, personal accountant, personal accountants, incompetent, incompetence, irresponsible

Pyrrhic Victory

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC131531
High Res:
2931x4288 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
confused, confusion, confusing, confuses, old, older, old people, elder, elderly, elderly couple, couple, couples, married, marriage, married life, argue, argues, argument, arguments, argumentative, arguing, pyrrhic, wife, wives, husband, husbands, pyrrhic victory, senile, senility

Right lane becomes left lane 100 ft.

Artist:
Harris, Sidney
Search ID:
CC34926
High Res:
3704x2367 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
road sign, road signs, sign, signs, crossover, crossovers, car, cars, highway, highways, freeway, freeways, slow lane, fast lane, slow lanes, fast lanes, right wing, right wings, left wing, left wings, left-winger, left-wingers, right-winger, right-wingers, political affiliation, political affiliations, politically affiliated, pointless, pointlessness, needless, confusing, interstate travel, road trip, road trips

Man in a desert looks up to see a sand timer sprinkling sand below.

Artist:
Galindo, Felipe
Search ID:
CC131082
High Res:
3570x4176 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
desert, deserts, lost, sahara, timer, time, timers, sand, sands, dune, dunes, sand dune, sand dunes, wander, wandering, wanders, sand time, sand clock, hourglass, hourglasses, hour glass, hour glasses, confusing, confusion, confused, origin, original, sahara desert

"Your tax return...."

Artist:
Booth, George
Search ID:
CC35821
High Res:
2487x2330 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
tax, taxes, tax return, tax returns, bureaucrat, bureaucracy, bureaucrats, irs, internal revenue service, payment, tax estimates, confusing, tax code, tax codes, complex, complicated

"Don't let the infinity throw you."

Artist:
Vey, P. C.
Search ID:
CC141818
High Res:
3015x2746 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
vanishing point, perspective, warped perspective, infinite, infinity, math, maths, mathematical, math jokes, meta, metaphysical, office, offices, work life, work, corridor, corridors, disturb, disturbed, illusion, illusions, art, artist, artistic, optical, confuse, confused, confusing, hate mondays, monday, just another day at the office, optical illusion, science, scientific, geometry, geometric, visual

"11th Grade Math for Nincompoops"

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC120201
High Res:
2106x2820 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
maths, math, mathematics, school, schools, schooling, education, educates, 11th grade, new math, new maths, common core, common-core, confusing, confused, mathematical, different, new, adults, unhelpful, can't help, useless, science, sciences, geometry, graphing, jargon, jargons

"Nobody said the cowbell industry was humane."

Artist:
Katz, Farley
Search ID:
CC131346
High Res:
2999x2540 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
cow, cows, cowbell, cowbells, inspector, inspectors, humane, humanity, slaughter, slaughters, factory, factories, slaughterhouse, kill, meat, meats, food, pun, puns, visual pun, convert, converting, converts, farmer, farmers, farm, farms, beef, animal rights, pointless, confusing

All-way stops.

Artist:
O'Brien, John
Search ID:
CX304793
High Res:
2431x1957 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
car, cars, vehicle, vehicles, automobile, automobiles, driving, driver, drivers, transportation, stop, stopping, stop sign, stop signs, four-way stop, four-way stops, all-way stop, all-way stops, right of way, traffic law, rules of the road, confusing, confusion

"My baby is not on backwards - your baby is on backwards."

Artist:
Smaller, Barbara
Search ID:
CC38614
High Res:
2869x2833 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
kid, kids, child, children, baby, babies, infant, infants, parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, mom, moms, mum, mums, mother, mothers, motherhood, father, fathers, fatherhood, dad, dads, family, families, new parent, new parents, baby carrier, baby carriers, baby sling, baby slings, backwards, wrong, right, incorrect, correct, forwards, facing, confusing, confusion, modern life

Home Alone.

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC118985
High Res:
2400x3000 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
mistake, mistakes, left, leave, leaving, mistake, grandpa, grandpas, grandparents, grandparent, grandfather, grandfathers, confused, confusion, old age, retirement, retiring, retires, retired, retirees, pensioner, pensioners, technology, technologies, confusion, confused, confusing, confuses, overwhelm, overwhelmed, misunderstand, misunderstanding, misunderstood, grandfather, grandfathers, grandparent, grandparents, grandpa, grandpas, mistake, mistakes, generation, generations, scared, scares, abandon, abandoned

"Are you sure you're not confusing manic-depressive with awake-asleep?"

Artist:
Haefeli, William
Search ID:
CC123714
High Res:
4159x4191 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
manic depressive, manic depressives, bipolar, bipolar disorder, bipolar disorders, awake, waking life, asleep, sleeps, sleeping, self-diagnose, self-diagnosing, self-diagnosis, mental health, mental health problem, mental health problems, psychiatrist, psychiatrists, psychiatry, psychology, psychologist, psychologists, hypochondriac, hypochondriacs, hypochondria, confusion, confused, confusing

"Chapter Eleven is, in reality, only chapter one."

Artist:
Ziegler, Jack
Search ID:
CC8373
High Res:
3041x2550 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
writer, writers, author, authors, novelist, novelists, bad writer, bad writers, failed writer, failed writers, publishing, publisher, publishers, pretentious, pretension, pretentiousness, conceit, over complicate, over complicated, over complication, over-complicate, over-complicated, over-complication, confused, confusing, narrative, narratives, complex narrative, complex narratives

"Sometimes it's as if I didn't know the difference between what's real and what's trompe-l'oeil."

Artist:
Kaplan, Bruce
Search ID:
CC32515
High Res:
2961x2432 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
trompe-l'oeil, trompe loeil, trompe l'oeil, realism, illusion, illusions, optical illusion, optical illusions, perspective illusion, perspective illusions, decoration, decorating, decorations, three dimensional, forced perspective, forced perspective, different perspective, different perspective, confused, confusing, confusion, therapy, therapists, therapist, counselor, counselors, counseling, counsellor, counsellors, counselling, psychology, psychologist, psychologists, psychiatry, psychiatrist, psychiatrists, psychoanalysis

Driver looking at a confusing road sign with arrows pointing in many directions

Artist:
Gerberg, Mort
Search ID:
RC600092
High Res:
2632x2622 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
car, cars, automobile, automobiles, vehicle, vehicles, driving, driver, drivers, transportation, sign, signs, road sign, road signs, confusing, arrow, arrows, directions, pointing, left, right, up, down, incomprehensible, lost, urban, urban life, urban living, city, cities, city life, living in the city, city living, city driving, urban driving

Not an Entrance/Not An Exit

Artist:
Mankoff, Bob
Search ID:
CX300555
High Res:
2563x2275 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
exit, exits, entrance, entrances, logic, logical, illogical, door, doors, entrance door, exit door, exit doors, entrance doors, department, departments, logical thinker, logical thinkers, logical thinking, philosophy, philosophy teacher, philosophy teachers, philosophical, teacher, teachers, logic problem, logic problems, puzzle, puzzles, puzzling, door, doors, logician, lawyer, lawyers, legalese, lawyerese, interpret, interpretation, interpretations, confusing, confusion

"You could be right, Foster, But I believe you're confusing 'uncaring' with 'unfeeling'."

Artist:
Cullum, Leo
Search ID:
CX301296
High Res:
4400x3400 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
executive, executives, office, offices, business, businesses, businessman, businessmen, uncaring, unfeeling, confusion, confused, confusing, concern, concerns, sympathy, sympathetic, unsympathetic, facial expression, facial expressions, emotions, emotion

"Where's the business end of this thing?"

Artist:
Koren, Edward
Search ID:
CC87290
High Res:
4718x6384 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
technology, technologies, machine, machines, machinery, complex, complicated, complexity, convolute, convoluted, overcomplicated, labyrinthine, rube goldberg, industry, industrial, industrial design, industrial designer, industrial designs, heath-robinson, contraption, contraptions, confusing, confusion, confused, manufacture, manufacturing, lab, laboratory, equipment

"Please make regular coffee in the pot with brown trim and decaffeinated coffee in the pot with orange trim, so people can tell what kind it is. And do not tarry at the vaulted coffee niche."

Artist:
Booth, George
Search ID:
CC22367
High Res:
1305x1581 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
coffee, coffees, decaffeinated, caffeine, caffeinated, coffee pot, coffee pots, orange trim, identity, identities, breakroom, break room, break rooms, office, offices, instruction, instructions, maid, maids, confusing, confusion

"The only person who is going to be able to make any sense of this trial is the sketch artist."

Artist:
Dernavich, Drew
Search ID:
CC139631
High Res:
7942x6041 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
court, courts, courtroom, courtrooms, trial, trials, legal system, justice system, law, judge, judges, lawyer, lawyers, counselor, counselors, counsellors, counsellors, attorney, attorneys, solicitor, solicitors, barrister, barristers, legal counsel, nonsense, confusing, confusion, sense, make sense, making sense, artist, artists, sketch artist, sketch artists, courtroom sketch, courtroom sketches, fruit, fruits, witness, witnesses, still life, still-life, painter, painters, painting, paintings, art, artwork, artworks, drawing, drawings, sketch, sketches, jury, juries