Bit of a headache
There are some themes that cartoonists seem to revisit over and over again. The classic one is “marooned on a desert island”. Then there’s the “about to jump off the ledge of a tall building” scenario, and the “down-and-out begging on the street” subject - to name but three. (Strange that the humour of most cartoons involves human suffering to a greater of lesser degree, don’t you think?)
Another favourite topic involves the words sex (or lack of) and headache. You can even adapt this into a computer gag….
(Cartoon taken from The Domestic Scene in Microholics)
There’s a bit of irony associated with this cartoon, which is that working for too long in front of a computer screen can actually give you a headache! Hmm. I’m sure there’s another gag here somewhere.
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Reversing the roles
Role-reversal is a favourite trick-of-the-trade for the humorist.
This is an old joke but one of my favourites, worth repeating here.
A lady anthropologist was studying the roles of genders in the middle east, (several years before the Gulf War), and was appalled at the custom in Kuwait for wives to walk ten paces behind their husbands.
Many years later, after the war, she returned to Kuwait. She was pleased to observe that the practice was now for the women to walk ten paces in front of the men. Intrigued to know why, she asked a man what had caused the change.
“Land mines”, he replied.
Role-reversal is also a favourite technique for the cartoonist:
Cartoon taken from The Domestic Scene section of Microholics
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