Unlucky Cartoons

"Of all the markets, in all the world, you had to walk into mine."

Artist:
Weyant, Christopher
Search ID:
CC125700
High Res:
3224x2574 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
bear market, bear, bears, grizzly, grizzly bears, bear markets, annoyed, annoy, annoying disappointed, disappoint, unlucky, bad luck, bull market, drop, stock market, stock markets, stocks, share, shares, invest, investing, invests, tumbling, crisis, stockmarket, stock market crash, stockmarket crash, crash, crashes, pun, puns, visual pun

"Oh, well, this is going to be awkward."

Artist:
Flake, Emily
Search ID:
CC135103
High Res:
3002x3627 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
death, deaths, grim reaper, grim-reaper, grim reapers, grim-reapers, lottery, lotteries, unlucky, awkward, awkwardness, millionaire, millionaires, tragic, tragedy, dying, dies, scythe, lucky, win, winning, jackpot, jack-pot, jackpots, jack-pots, money, pass away, typical

"It's a shame you missed the eighties."

Artist:
Miller, Warren
Search ID:
CC30591
High Res:
1748x1685 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
eighties, 80s, nostalgia, nostalgic, child, children, babies, baby, kid, kids, precocious, wistful, reminisce, reminiscence, unfortunate, unlucky, history, histories, american history, 1980s, remember, remembering, share, sharing, nineties kids, 90s kids

Wrong Bus

Artist:
Gerberg, Mort
Search ID:
CC25423
High Res:
1753x1149 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
bus, the wrong bus, wrong bus, wait, waiting, infuriating, annoying, bus stop, buses, omnibus, unlucky, unfortunate, typical, bad luck, bewildering, perplexing

"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

"You also had a very good feeling about the last one."

Artist:
Steed, Edward
Search ID:
CC140023
High Res:
3088x3158 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
catapult, catapults, catapulting, trebuchet, trebuchets, miss, misses, missing, inaccurate, inaccuracy, inaccuracies, optimist, optimists, optimistic, good feeling, lucky feeling, luck, lucky, unlucky, unwarranted optimism, hope, hopes, hoping, hopeful, unlikely

"Attention, please, Mr. Lyle Ferguson. As a result of equipment failure at the Cos Cob power station, your train will not be running at all tonight."

Artist:
Booth, George
Search ID:
CC88547
High Res:
2193x3158 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
new york, new york city, grand central, grand central station, train, train times, train delay, train delays, connecticut, cancellation, cancellations, equipment failure, equipment failures, power station, power failure, power failures, unlucky, bad luck, fortune, bad fortune

Kid drops his 13 flavor ice cream cone

Artist:
Ziegler, Jack
Search ID:
CC122592
High Res:
3600x2709 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
ice cream, ice-cream, cone, cones, ice, gelato, sorbet, sherbert, frozen, dessert, desserts, food, kid, kids, child, children, accident, accidents, mishap, mishaps, trip, stumble, clumsy, spill, drop, fall, falling, flavour, flavours, flavor, flavors, mess, messy, incompetent, incompetents, incompetence, shop, shops, store, stores, parlor, parlors, parlours, parlour, 13, thirteen, unlucky, misfortune

"Is it my fault he guessed the wrong hand?"

Artist:
Barsotti, Charles
Search ID:
CC121098
High Res:
3000x1879 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
business executive, business executives, business manager, business managers, boss, bosses, manager, managers, executive, executives, beggar, beggars, choose a hand, pick a hand, guessing, guess, guessed, guess work, poverty, wealth divide, wealth gap, unlucky, bad luck, unluckiness, fired, firing, fire, redundant, redundancy, redundancies, made redundant, canned, can, canning, sack, sacked, sacking, getting the sack, laid off, laid-off, laying off, laying-off

"I think I've already had my fifteen minutes of fortune."

Artist:
Cullum, Leo
Search ID:
CX301341
High Res:
4400x3400 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
fortune, fortunes, fifteen minutes of fame, fame, good fortune, good fortunes, unlucky, luck, lucky, luckiness, unluckiness, tramp, tramps, vagrant, vagrants, vagrancy, panhandler, panhandlers, panhandling, luck run out, running out of luck, publicity, celebrity, has been, has-been, has-beens, has beens, washed out, washed up, wash out

"Not once in my life, … In School, Marriage, Business… did I ever come out smelling like a rose."

Artist:
Cullum, Leo
Search ID:
CX301429
High Res:
4400x3400 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
coming out smelling like roses, rose, roses, smelling of roses, tramp, tramps, vagrant, vagrants, vagrancy, panhandler, panhandlers, beggar, beggars, scandal, scandals, trouble maker, trouble makers, unlucky, bad luck, reputation, reputations, bad reputation, bad reputations, tarnished

"Not once in my life, … In School, Marriage, Business… did I ever come out smelling like a rose."

Artist:
Cullum, Leo
Search ID:
CX301429
High Res:
4000x3091 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
coming out smelling like roses, rose, roses, smelling of roses, tramp, tramps, vagrant, vagrants, vagrancy, panhandler, panhandlers, beggar, beggars, scandal, scandals, trouble maker, trouble makers, unlucky, bad luck, reputation, reputations, bad reputation, bad reputations, tarnished

The Lottery

Artist:
Ziegler, Jack
Search ID:
CC139262
High Res:
2957x2624 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
why me, why not, why not you, lottery, lotteries, lottery ticket, lottery tickets, lotto, lotto ticket, lotto tickets, luck, lucky, unlucky, god, mysterious way, mysterious ways, lord, the lord, divine will, divine wills, divinity, divine, judgement, judgements, judgment, judgments, god's will, will of god, unrealistic

"What are the odds? A therapist and his star patient seated next to each other on a fourteen-hour flight? It's like we both just won the lottery!"

Artist:
Kanin, Zachary
Search ID:
CC145845
High Res:
3952x3617 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
air travel, airplane, airplanes, aeroplane, aeroplanes, plane, planes, flying, flight, flights, traveler, travelers, traveling, travellers, travellers, travelling, passenger, passengers, bad luck, unlucky, therapy, therapist, therapists, shrink, shrinks, psychology, psychologist, psychologists, psychiatry, psychiatrist, psychiatrists, counselor, counselors, counseling, counsellor, counsellors, counselling, patient, patients, mental health, fate

Fat Chance

Artist:
Lorenz, Lee
Search ID:
CC68091
High Res:
1852x1316 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
taxi, taxis, cab, cabs, taxi cab, taxi cabs, call a cab, calling a cab, fat chance, downpour, downpours, urban, urban life, city, cities, city life, bad timing, badly timed, unlucky, unluckiness, poorly timed, cabbie, cabbies, insult, insults, insulting, insulted, let down, let downs, let-down, let-downs, rain, raining, caught in the rain, bad weather

"Oh boy! I've won the- "

Artist:
Chast, Roz
Search ID:
CC144617
High Res:
2677x2883 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
lottery, the lottery, state lottery, gambling, gambler, gamblers, luck, lucky, luckiness, unlucky, unluckiness, timing, bad time, bad timing, lightning bolt, lightning bolts, hit by lightning, shark, sharks, shark attack, shark attacks, 1000 to 1

"I tried being myself, but it wasn't getting me anywhere."

Artist:
Richter, Mischa
Search ID:
CC32354
High Res:
2132x1455 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
bar, bars, pub, pubs, drink, drinks, drinking, alcohol, cocktail, cocktails, bartender, bartenders, beer, beers, cocktail bar, cocktail bars, men, man, dating, date, dates, unlucky, single, unattached

"Sorry, I'm meeting a guy, but you're not the guy."

Artist:
Barsotti, Charles
Search ID:
CC138347
High Res:
4689x3695 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
beggar, beggars, panhandler, panhandlers, begging, panhandling, angel, angels, guardian angel, guardian angels, homeless, homelessness, poverty, unlucky, unluckiness, unfortunate, uncharitable, inequality, donation, donations, poverty gap, discriminate, discriminating, discrimination, unfair

"Oh, by the way, as you were on your way down here your lottery ticket won seventeen million dollars."

Artist:
Miller, Warren
Search ID:
CC25021
High Res:
2508x2168 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
hell, welcome to hell, devil, devils, demon, demons, satan, fire, flame, flames, new arrival, death, dead, money, gambling, gambler, gamblers, lottery, lotteries, playing the lottery, lottery ticket, lottery tickets, game, games, won, winning the lottery, million, millions, million dollars, fortune, unlucky, lucky, fortunate, unfortunate, good luck, bad luck, bad day, worst day, rich, wealth, wealthy, riches, poor, man, men, psychology, failure, failed, stress, stressful, unfulfilled dreams, torture

"This is an unfortunate time to run aground."

Artist:
Cotham, Frank
Search ID:
CC142911
High Res:
3088x3948 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
pirate, pirates, pirate ship, pirate ships, plank, planks, walking the plank, punishment, punishments, land, run aground, run ashore, ship grounding, stuck, stranded, unfortunate, misfortune, bad timing, bad luck, unlucky, fail, fails, failure, unsuccessful

A man, walking towards the intersection of ‘Easy Street' and 'Harms Way', runs into the Grim Reaper.

Artist:
Mankoff, Bob
Search ID:
CC70399
High Res:
3000x2361 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
death, grim reaper, grim reapers, reaper, reapers, embodiment of death, death personified, spectre of death, thanatos, angel of death, corner, corners, intersection, intersections, easy street, harm's way, problem, problems, run into, meeting, meetings, chance, bad luck, unlucky, misfortune, word play, wordplay

"I know I could keep my slider down if they would just fire the manager."

Artist:
Sipress, David
Search ID:
CC125330
High Res:
6981x5372 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
sport, sports, baseball, baseball player, baseball players, player, players, athlete, athletes, playing baseball, slider, sliders, pitch, pitches, pitcher, pitchers, manager, managers, baseball team, baseball teams, fire, luck, bad luck, unlucky, superstition, superstitions, superstitious, sportsmanship, bad sportsmanship, blame, blame game, blaming, scapegoat, scapegoats, excuse, excuses

"I think the 'curse of the Bambino' has transferred to your Portfolio."

Artist:
Cullum, Leo
Search ID:
CX301086
High Res:
4400x3400 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
the bambino, curse of the bambino, office, offices, business, businesses, businessman, businessmen, executive, executives, unlucky, bad luck, curse, curses, cursed, myth, myths, baseball, superstitious, superstition, superstitions, athlete, athletes

Man crawling toward an oasis sees a sign reading "Mirage closed for private event".

Artist:
Dator, Joe
Search ID:
CC141452
High Res:
3088x1953 pixels (unwatermarked)
Tags:
desert, deserts, traveler, travelers, traveller, travellers, crawling, thirsty, starving, dying, oasis, mirage, mirages, club, clubs, restaurant, restaurants, bar, bars, pub, pubs, private club, private clubs, exclusive, event, events, private event, private events, closed off, closed to the public, closed, unavailable, bad day, unlucky, bad luck