Given that my editorial cartooning career would not exist without fast food restaurants, I thought instead of giving up something for Lent this year, I’d pay tribute to my heritage by conducting a nine-round fast food fish sandwich tournament.

The tournament was open only to fast-food restaurants. As you can see from the brackets below, there are two qualifying rounds — one for local restaurants (defined as the Omaha and Lincoln metro areas) and one for regional restaurants (defined as not national, but greater than just the Omaha and Lincoln metro areas; Hardee’s is considered to be national due to its Carl’s Jr. alternate identity). All major national fast food chains receive a bye in the first round.
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I went to mass to see my niece take part in one of the readings, and came away with the latest installment in the ‘Witnessed’ Series:

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The latest in this series happened so quickly I wasn’t able to get much of the conversation down before these three wrapped up their meal and went their separate ways.

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When I go to cartoon lunch, I normally go to the same McDonald’s. This McDonald’s is pretty popular with the older crowd, particularly older folks who seem to be missing a few bolts. They’re usually fairly noisy, either talking to themselves or striking up random conversations with fellow diners.

I’m normally really tolerant of it because it’s kind of a unique clique of people who mean no harm, and it’s often pretty amusing. Lately though, they’ve been particularly aggressive — and not particularly effective — when it comes to singling out targets of random conversation.

This was a situation I observed today, translated to comic form.

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Not as surreal as the previous lunch observation, but it was still amusing nonetheless. I love the idea that people are now re-learning elementary-level facts thanks to Jeff Foxworthy.

I wasn’t able to get a good drawing of this group, because I think they figured out I was observing them (even though I could easily hear them from where I was sitting across the dining area) and they took off before I could finish drawing them.

I was reading the paper and working on ideas and couldn’t help but overhear this conversation.