How to Increase Donations

There are people at every entrance to every business right now seeking Salvation Army donations. That made me wonder if there was some way we could better encourage people to donate. Did I donate? No cash. What? They take cards now? Maybe next time.

Favre and his Team Doctors

Interestingly enough, the inspiration for this comic had nothing to do with Favre. I heard a radio ad on the drive in with Danny White (a former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and more recently, a coach for the Arizona Rattlers) talking about living with back pain. He went to a pain center and now feels pain free. His quote is, "I live with constant back pain since I retired from the NFL." However, my mind thought he should have said, "So, I decided to un-retire."

From that, I decided I wanted a player more people remember. Once I settled on Favre, I decided to use my un-retire idea in panel 3 and go with a concussion-based Favre forgetting even who he would play for in his final two seasons.

Six Sigma Interview

Someone at work challenged me to write a comic strip about the Six Sigma belts. That was probably 3-6 months ago, but she recently asked why I had not done a comic yet. So, once I started thinking about it, I felt like I wanted some interview comments that could be answered in Six Sigma ways. Of course, though, the final panel needed some twist.

Butterball to the Rescue

Surely you expected a Thanksgiving-themed Comic today? I knew I wanted to use the concept of having to use packaged, sliced turkey. I did not know, until I started writing it, that canned food would make an appearance in the last panel. Happy Thanksgiving.

Pause That Refreshes

I listened to some of the President's speech on the failure of the Supercommittee working on tax reform. He was brilliant in the way he used his pauses to dig into the Republicans that he blames for the failure. I had to do this today while the speech is still in the news.

Sponsored by Metamucil

Surprisingly, I did not have panel four in mind when I started this cartoon. I first decided to have it be about finding sponsors for regular business functions, then decided to go with senior leaders and imply they are all seniors, which led to Metamucil. When I reached the final panel, I found that clever quip and finished today's CoV.

Class or Meeting

I think that, if you were only able to see the words spoken in a room, it might sometimes sound like a different activity was occurring. So, I decided to choose some words that you really might hear in a classroom or a meeting and compare them. Then, I had to find the twist in the final panel that would make the comparison seem the opposite of what you would expect.