Top 10 Rejected Cartoon Ideas of the Month: May

Time for another installment of “What you’re missing because newspapers are sissies.”

10. Starting off, it’s the first Heath Mello cartoon I’ve attempted since the 2000 ASUN elections. I can get away with this because I’m rural folk (Not that I could have gotten away with this).

9.
collegehumor.com license plates

8.

7.
nancy pelosi torture cia harsh interrogation

6. This one was actually really close to running in both the Journal Star and the Reader (so close that a finished inked version exists), but it fell victim to last-minute ideas and concern that maybe the swine flu story would go away faster than initially thought.
swine flu h1n1 virus dave heineman

5.
ted sorensen

4.
treasurer shane osborn

3.
senator mike johanns earmarks

2.
abortion pro-life contraception

1.
ken svoboda terry werner

Previous top rejects of the month: April | March | February | January

4 Responses to Top 10 Rejected Cartoon Ideas of the Month: May

  1. Jim says:

    Ahh… Rejected cartoons are great. I can’t believe how much they censor you.

  2. theotherneill says:

    1, 3, 6, 7, and 10 should have been run. Especially 10.

  3. Dave says:

    I personally loved the Transformer as the director of the DMV.

  4. Why rejected….they all seem to be good, especially the 10th one.

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