Failing Cartoons

Surprise Party

Artist:
Kaplan, Bruce
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CC28658
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surprise, surprises, bad news, ugly surprise, ugly surprises, pregnant, pregnancy, fail, fails, failing, failure, failures, cancer, malignant, malignancy, divorce, divorces, surprise party, surprise parties, birthday party, birthday parties, flunk, flunks, fired, firing, firings, unexpected, news, shock, shocks, shocking, surprising, unfortunate

"There's nothing wrong with the ship. We just got a better offer."

Artist:
Levin, Arnie
Search ID:
CC38490
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rat, rats, ship, ships, boat, boats, sailor, sailors, cliche, cliches, rats leaving a sinking ship, low, animal, animals, insulted, insulting, insulted, insecurity, insecurities, better offer, offers, better offers, job, jobs, not good enough, shipped, failing, surprised, surprising

"I know he's in here somewhere!"

Artist:
Wilson, Gahan
Search ID:
CC42954
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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

Myra's Little Garden

Artist:
Chast, Roz
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CC36234
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gardening, gardens, horticulture, horticultured, corn, corns, cultivate, cultivating, grow, growing, grows, grew, fail, failing, failed crop, crops, crop, cropped, grain, grains, cereal, cereals, farm, farming, farmed, farms, garden, saying, sayings, plant, plants, planting

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
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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

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

Artist:
Vey, P. C.
Search ID:
BA500064
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4227x3399 pixels (unwatermarked)
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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 messed up a couple of quizzes but I didn't think that rose to the level of an 'F'."

Artist:
Cullum, Leo
Search ID:
CX302064
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4400x3400 pixels (unwatermarked)
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kid, kids, child, children, parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, mom, moms, mum, mums, mother, mothers, motherhood, family, families, education, school, schools, schooling, student, students, marks, grades, report card, report cards, failing, flunking, bad marks, bad grades, excuse, excuses

Power Up

Artist:
Ziegler, Jack
Search ID:
CC125261
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7863x6382 pixels (unwatermarked)
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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

Flopsy wakes up one day and suddenly realizes why she never succeeded at anything.

Artist:
Kaplan, Bruce
Search ID:
CC133467
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4660x3276 pixels (unwatermarked)
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flopsy, rabbit, rabbits, easter, easter bunny, easter bunnies, name, names, namesake, namesakes, flop, flops, flopping, what's in a name, whats in a name, succeed, succeeds, succeeding, success, unsuccessful, blame, blames, blaming, blame game, blame games, fate, fated, failure, failures, fail, fails, failing, career, careers, career arc, career arcs

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

Artist:
Sipress, David
Search ID:
CX304648
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2973x1905 pixels (unwatermarked)
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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

Wall Street Down

Artist:
Weyant, Christopher
Search ID:
CC125668
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3006x2970 pixels (unwatermarked)
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wall street, finance, financial crash, financial crashes, stock market, stock markets, stock market crash, stock market crashes, recession, the recession, recessions, double-dip recession, double dip recession, stock exchange, stock exchange, the new york stock exchange, the new york stock exchange, shares, share, failing, failure, stats, statistics, occupy wall street, drain, drains, down the drain, failure, breakdown, breakdowns, collapse, collapses, decline, declines

You Are Here

Artist:
Dernavich, Drew
Search ID:
CC125258
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business man, business men, business person, business people, businessman, businessmen, businesperson, stock, stocks, stocks and shares, stock market, stock markets, stock market crash, stock market crashes, bond, bonds, recession, recessions, double dip recessions, charts, charts, graph, graphs, stats, statistics, crash, crashes, fail, failed, failing, doing badly, you are here, locate, locating, location, locations, maps, map, city map, city maps

"I guess someone else with three wishes is wishing your three wishes don't come true."

Artist:
Harris, Sidney
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NL700238
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wish, wishes, fairy, fairies, fairy godmother, fairy godmothers, three wishes, grant wishes, grants wishes, granting wishes, block, blocks, blocked, blocking, fail, fails, failure, failures, failing, failed, genie, genies, come true, comes true, coming true

"I'm listing my deadlines by due date so I can miss them in chronological order."

Artist:
Sipress, David
Search ID:
CC140364
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deadline, deadlines, paperwork, due date, due dates, procrastinate, procrastination, procrastinating, lazy, laziness, chronological order, shirk, shirking, irresponsible, irresponsibility, business woman, business women, businesswoman, businesswomen, businessperson, businessperson, business people, modern life, modern attitudes, fail, failed, failing

"Well, I guess the bubble has burst over at Phillips Rodny Associates."

Artist:
Levin, Arnie
Search ID:
CC30294
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metaphor, metaphors, burst your bubble, business, businesses, bubble, bubbles, fail, failure, failures, failing, failed, failed business, men, businessmen, businessman, bankrupt, bankruptcy, financial bubble, finance, finances, financial, space, outer space, expression, saying, expressions, sayings, debt, debts, liquidation, liquidated, liquidate, insolvent, insolvency

"Yeah? Well, tell him that in this company Gandhi-like resistance wouldn't have worked for Gandhi, either."

Artist:
Barsotti, Charles
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CC29049
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business, businessman, businessmen, boss, bosses, executive, executives, exec, execs, manager, managers, management, office, offices, office life, employee, employees, worker, workers, resisting, resistance, activist, activists, activism, non-violent, nonviolent, peaceful, protest, protests, protesting, civil disobedience, union, unions, strike, strikes, striking, floppy, failing, failure, failed

"If I've accomplished little, it's because I have giants standing on my shoulders."

Artist:
Leighton, Robert
Search ID:
WJ500261
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2100x2583 pixels (unwatermarked)
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standing on the shoulders of giants, expression, expressions, saying, sayings, idiom, idioms, excuse, excuses, making excuses, bad excuse, bad excuses, life choices, career choices, accomplishments, achievement, achievements, accomplishment, failure, failures, failing, let down, let downs, let-down, let-downs

"I hope, Reinhardt, that you're not one of those people whose sense of self-worth is defined by their job."

Artist:
Barsotti, Charles
Search ID:
CC29031
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office worker, office workers, office work, office job, office jobs, job satisfaction, overworked, overwork, overworking, workaholic, workaholics, workaholism, self worth, self-worth, self-esteem, cubism, abstract art, failure, failures, failing, work life balance, work-life balance, criticise, criticising, disapprove, disapproving

"We got the bailout - I don't call that incompetent."

Artist:
Barsotti, Charles
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CX303806
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failure, failing, bailout, bailouts, bankruptcy, bankrupt, financial assistance, finances, finance, executive, executives, office, offices, business, businesses, businessmen, businessman, incompetent, incompetents, incompetence, idiot, idiots, poor business decisions, bad business decisions

"You're the reason nations fail."

Artist:
Koren, Edward
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CC138427
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nations, nation, fail, failure, failed, failing, youth, young people, lazy, laziness, unmotivated, kid, kids, child, children, unwilling, unwilling to work, unemployed, unemployment, messy room, couch potato, couch potatoes, slacker, slackers, slacking, irresponsible, unreliable, parent, parents, parenting, parenthood, motivational speakers, baby boomer, baby boomers

Maintenance Fee Party

Artist:
Chast, Roz
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CC119530
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beatniks, beatnik, beat generation, beats generation, failed, failed, failing, fails, rent, rents, home, house, housing, hippie, hippies, friend, friends, old, older, age, aged, growing older, getting older, grown up, hippy, hippys

Genius At Midnight

Artist:
Barsotti, Charles
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CC35850
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agent, agents, midnight, genius, geniuses, genius idea, genius ideas, actor, actors, failed actor, failed actors, writer, writers, failed writer, failed writers, moment of genius, failed, failing, failure, let down, let downs, let-down, let-downs, disappointment, disappointments, disappointing, drunk, drinking, drinker, drinkers, drunks

"On the other hand, it's not the end of the world."

Artist:
Lorenz, Lee
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CC131426
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3006x2374 pixels (unwatermarked)
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conquest, war, famine, death, four horsemen, bible, book of revelation, revelation, apocalypse, armageddon, end of the world, laid off, fired, let go, recession, business, businesses, failed, fail, failing, unemployed, unemployment, grim reaper, dying, bad guys, the end is around the corner

"The bailout money, …. Cosgrove took it and bailed out."

Artist:
Cullum, Leo
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CX301200
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bailout, bailouts, bankrupt, bankruptcy, failing, failing business, failing businesses, business, businesses, businessmen, businessman, office, offices, executive, executives, failure, fail, money, financial assistance, steal, stealing, thief, thieves

Stan Mack's Real Life Funnies: Alumnae News

Artist:
Mack, Stan
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CX300051
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alum, alums, alumni, alumnae, chance encounter, chance encounters, old friend, old friends, college friend, college friends, art school, art schools, visual arts, visual arts major, visual arts majors, faux pas, cringe, cringes, cringing, awkward, awkward scenario, awkward scenarios, awkward scene, awkward scenes, copywriter, copywriters, writing copy, copy, advertising agency, advertising agencies, career, careers, success, successes, successful, compare, compares, comparing, comparison, comparisons, waitress, waitresses, fail, fails, failing, failure, failures