Failed Cartoons

Three-Martini Breakfast

Artist:
Katz, Farley
Search ID:
CC131006
High Res:
3107x2768 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
three-martini, three martini, breakfast, lunch, three-martini lunch, three martini lunch, professionals, professional, time, alcohol, drink, drinks, overwhelmed, drunk, failed, failed experiment, martini, martinis, tax deduction, gin, vermouth, olive, olives

Ed's Restaurant - Closed. Get Over It

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC22434
High Res:
1267x1093 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
sign, signs, signage, door sign, closure, closed, close, fails, fail, failed, failure, failures, bankrupt, bankruptcy, economy, economic, recession, small business, small businesses, dining, diner, diners, restaurants, restaurant, shut down, shut-down, shutdown, food, eating, eatery, cafe, rude, rudeness, frank, frankness, brusque, school of hard knocks, hard knocks, service, service industry, catering

"I thought he was a genius, but now I find out that he was self-proclaimed."

Artist:
Cotham, Frank
Search ID:
CC135326
High Res:
2806x2217 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
executive, executives, business, businessmen, businessman, businesses, office, offices, corporate, corporations, corporation, work, workers, working, working world, market, marketing, markets, profit, profit boost, profits, profitable, profitability, train, training, trained, trainer, genius, geniuses, resume, resumes, ego, egotist, egotistical, failure, failed, failures, recoup, recouping, trust, trusting, trustworthy, reliable, rely, relying, running away, run away, runaway

Godzilla vs. The Angry Movie Executives

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC39764
High Res:
1952x2666 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
godzilla, kaiju, kaijus, monster, monsters, giant monster, giant monsters, battles, talking animal, talking animals, actor, actors, big budget, budget, exec, executive, executives, movie, movies, film, films, cinema, cinemas, box office, flop, box office flop, box-office, entertainment, failure, failed, battle, battled, argue, argued, antagonise, antagonise, threaten, threatened, versus, vs, anthro, anthropomorphic, anthropomorphism, hollywood, director, directors, producer, producers, sales, profit, profits, overwhelm, overwhelmed, gang up, ganged up

"The Sudden, Sure Knowledge That One's Best Efforts Have Come To Naught."

Artist:
Wilson, Gahan
Search ID:
CC31178
High Res:
1901x1652 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
effort, efforts, death, deaths, die, dies, deadly, escape, vaudeville, song-and-dance, grim reapers, grim-reapers, grim reaper, grim-reaper, audience, audiences, dying, dies, cheating death, cheats death, performance, performed, barbershop music, barbershop, disappointed, disappointed, fail, failed, effort, efforts

The Houseplant Cemetery.

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC143791
High Res:
3088x2599 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
cemetery, cemeteries, plant, plants, planted, planting, mistake, mistakes, mistook, mistakes, death, deaths, fail, failed, gardener, gardeners, gardening, cactus, cacti, broke, broken, breaking, breaks, horticulture, horticultures, gardening, gardens, die, dies, died, dying

"I know he's in here somewhere!"

Artist:
Wilson, Gahan
Search ID:
CC42954
High Res:
1569x1721 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
baptism, baptize, baptise, baptising, baptizing, christening, christening, drown, drowns, drowning, drop, dropped, awkward, baby, babies, child, children, infant, infants, drop, dropped, church, churches, christian, christians, font, fonts, failed, failing, baptismal font, baptismal, christened, religions, religion, christianity, priest, priest, vicar, vicars, reverend, reverends, lost, losing, loses

'Where Are They Now?'

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC43499
High Res:
2722x3362 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
middle age, middle-aged, high school, high-school, most likely to, most likely to succeed, marriage, marriages, life, lives, divorce, divorced, bleak, jealous, fail, failed, outlook, outlook, prediction, predictions, middle aged, lonely, loneliness, divorce, divorced, divorcing, mid-life crisis, mid life crisis, bleak, gloomy

"Well, I'll be-we just spent all weekend planning to rob a façade."

Artist:
Kanin, Zachary
Search ID:
CC139938
High Res:
2980x2327 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
rob, robbing, robbery, steal, stealing, heist, failed, facade, fake, facades, fakes, foiled, time wasting, plan, planning, west, wild west, cowboy, cowboys, unlucky, failed, ghost town, ghost towns, western

"We're going to have to start drafting people."

Artist:
Cotham, Frank
Search ID:
CC123548
High Res:
3290x3959 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
volunteer, volunteers, army, arms, armies, military, militaries, recruit, recruits, army draft, military draft, conscription, national service, conscripted, campaign, campaigns, militarize, militarise, soldier, soldiers, enlist, enlisting, draft, drafting, forced draft, war, wars, battle, battles, march, marching, napoleon, france, french, manpower, under-supplied, under supplied, force, forced, fail, failed, failure, tactic, tactics, napoleonic wars

"We're going to have to start drafting people."

Artist:
Cotham, Frank
Search ID:
CC123548
High Res:
3290x4676 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
volunteer, volunteers, army, arms, armies, military, militaries, recruit, recruits, army draft, military draft, conscription, national service, conscripted, campaign, campaigns, militarize, militarise, soldier, soldiers, enlist, enlisting, draft, drafting, forced draft, war, wars, battle, battles, march, marching, napoleon, france, french, manpower, under-supplied, under supplied, force, forced, fail, failed, failure, tactic, tactics, napoleonic wars

Sushi Spinoffs

Artist:
Harris, Sidney
Search ID:
CC35077
High Res:
2357x1583 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
bad, cook, cooks, cooking, raw, uncooked, basic, fail, failed, food, foods, dining, ethnic, japanese, sushi, sushis, spinoff, knock off, spin off, gross, disgusting, disgusted, disgust, yuck, yucky, repulsive, sickening, awful, inferior, parody, parodies

NATURE WALK

Artist:
Noth, Paul
Search ID:
CC143623
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3088x2434 pixels (unwatermarked)
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walk, walking walks, treadmill, tread mill, running machine, running machine, plant, plants, nature, natural, nature walk, natures, fail, failed, doing it wrong, misguided, misunderstood, treadmills, tread mills, inside, indoors, plant, plant pot, pot, plants

"Someday we'll look back on this time in our lives and think, Man, we were high."

Artist:
Toro, Tom
Search ID:
CC137033
High Res:
3037x2982 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
teenagers, teen-agers, teens, teen, teenage, teen-age, teenager, teen-ager, high, highs, pot, weed, smoke, smoking, marijuana, cannabis, edible, edibles, deep, not deep, profound, failed, remember, remembering, reminisce, reminiscing, reminisced, look back, looking back, youth, youthful, drug, drugs, ganja, unprofound, mild, superficial

Staff Picks. Please Note: We are probably going to fire Brian

Artist:
Chitty, Tom
Search ID:
CC142405
High Res:
4750x3586 pixels (unwatermarked)
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fire, fired, firing, laid off, made redundant, redundant, redundancy, staff picks, book, books, bookshop, bookshops, book shop, book shops, recommend, recommendation, recommendations, job, jobs, fail, failed, review, reviews, bookstore, bookstores, book store, book stores, library, libraries, recommends, recommendations, laid off, laying off, unimpressed, warn, warning, warnings

"All right, spit it out and let's try again."

Artist:
Wilson, Gahan
Search ID:
CC41133
High Res:
2140x1320 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
lion, lions, tamer, tamers, lion tamer, lion tamers, lion-tamer, lion-tamers, circus, circuses, spit, head, heads, decapitate, headless, danger, dangerous, train, training, trains, trick, tricks, entertain, entertainment, practice, practise, try again, fail, failed, show, shows, travelling show

Jeffrey N.: The Guy who managed to get the lead out of his pants, but they were still the wrong pants.

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC38110
High Res:
1963x2148 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
saying, sayings, cliche, cliches, cliched, get the lead out of one's shoes, get the lead out of your shoes, get the lead out of your pants, get the lead out of one's pants, wrong pants, retro, 70s, seventies, 1970s, disappointed, disappointment, fail, failed, failing, hurry, hurrying, faster, fast, go faster, wrong pants

"This is never going to work—you're a tree!"

Artist:
Bliss, Harry
Search ID:
CC137173
High Res:
3000x3125 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
tree, trees, hugging, hugs, hugger, tree huggers, relationship, relationships, environment, environments, love scene, love, break up, never going to work, failed, break-up, break-ups, breaking up, separating, splitting up, absurd, absurdist

"Today's graphic is small and complicated to shield us from the truth a little while longer."

Artist:
Vey, P. C.
Search ID:
BA500064
High Res:
4227x3399 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
meeting, meetings, business meeting, business meetings, board meeting, board meetings, business man, business men, business person, business people, businessman, businessmen, businessperson, executive, executives, manager, managers, boss, bosses, business executive, business executives, graphics, business graphic, business graphics, presentation, presentations, business presentation, business presentations, board room, board rooms, recession, recessions, failed business, failed businesses, failing business, failing businesses, double dip recession, bankrupt, bankruptcy, failed, failing, collapse, business collapse, business collapse, in denial, denial, administration, in administration, going into administration

"I'm sorry, I guess they just wanted it more."

Artist:
Cullum, Leo
Search ID:
CX301949
High Res:
4400x3400 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
court, courts, courtroom, courtrooms, trial, trials, legal system, justice system, law, laws, legal, lawyer, lawyers, counselor, counselors, counsellors, counsellors, attorney, attorneys, solicitor, solicitors, barrister, barristers, legal counsel, defence, defense, defendant, defendants, client, clients, losing, loser, losers, falling short, failure, failures, failed, apologising, apologizing, apology, apologies

"Uh, obfuscation fails me."

Artist:
Mankoff, Bob
Search ID:
CX300289
High Res:
2700x2144 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
office, offices, business, businesses, businessman, businessmen, executive, executives, stock, stocks, stockholder, stockholders, stock market, stock markets, bank, banks, banker, bankers, investment, investments, investment banker, investment bankers, investment banking, banking, obfuscation, obscure, unclear, fail, failed, decline

"Tell me again Frank, about the employees and what they did."

Artist:
Vey, P. C.
Search ID:
BA500321
High Res:
3209x2479 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
ignorance, fail, failed, failed business, business failure, bankrupt, bankruptcy, ignorant, stupid, stupidity, management, upper management, class, class divide, modern america, oligarchy, corporate, corporation, corporations, lay-off, lay-offs, lay off, lay offs, office drone, office drones, financial crash, market crash, closing down, out of business, big boss, boss, bosses, manager, managers, exec, execs, executive, executives

Power Up

Artist:
Ziegler, Jack
Search ID:
CC125261
High Res:
7863x6382 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
robot, robots, out of power, low power, no power, charge, charging, charging up, charged up, socket, sockets, modern technology, modern technologies, electricity, fail, failed, failing, plugs, low charge, no charge, no energy, defunct, dysfunctional, modern life, independent, independence

"Boy, that's that last time I ask my Dad for help on my homework!"

Artist:
Sipress, David
Search ID:
CX304648
High Res:
2973x1905 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
education, school, schools, schooling, teaching, learning, teacher, teachers, student, students, homework, assignment, assignments, paper, papers, essay, essays, report, reports, project, projects, mark, marks, grade, grades, fail, failing, failed, parent, parents, parenting, kid, kids, child, children, help, cheating, cheater, cheaters, family, families, helicopter parent, helicopter parents, fear of failure, teacher life, elementary school, primary school, junior high school, middle school

Birds of Manhattan

Artist:
Wilson, Gahan
Search ID:
CC34764
High Res:
2507x1628 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
pigeon, pigeons, city pigeon, city pigeons, vermin, bird, birds, manhattan, nyc, ny, new york, new york city, park, parks, public park, public parks, feed the birds, feeding the birds, central park, city life, urban life, museum, museums, let down, let-down, disappointing, disappointed, disappoint, pride, proud, national pride, fail, failed, diorama, dioramas, display, display, museum display, museum displays, museum exhibition, museum exhibitions, city, cities