Two of the top selling themes in my line of pottery are coffee and drugs. “Holy Shit! That’s good coffee!” was one of the very first jokes I ever put on a mug and it’s still selling really well. So it is with great pleasure that I debut one of the best cartoons ever on the topic of mind altering stuff: the “Tell me about your drugs” mug. The words come from one of my favorite songs by Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians, and I think this is one of my finest “collage of images” designs. What I really like about this one is that it makes you think about the good and bad aspects of drug use. Some drugs are wonderful: music and art have the ability to take our minds away and return us to the real world in better shape than before. But drugs, gambling and alcohol are clearly on the other end of the spectrum. I’m thinking about marketing this item to the psychiatric community as it could be the perfect gift for the people who deal with these issues on a day to day basis.
And my new Wally design is pretty darn timely. The bizarre mystery about what is causing random Toyotas to speed up and apparently attempt to kill their owners reminded me of the dialog between astronaut Dave and Hal the computer in “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Until they find out what is actually causing this phenomenon, my explanation is as good as any…
