When Bad Cartooning Attacks! (No.1)
Detail of anonymous mailer advertising wire ties
We found this on the floor while cleaning tonight. Apart from the mystery of how it ended up on our floor (random mail falling off the kitchen table? desparate marketers breaking into homes to leave crudely printed adverts in odd places?), I was struck by the pure, sheer awfulness of the little cartoon used to illustrate an advertisement for wire ties.
I mean, if I did not know what wire ties could be used for, based on the cartoon alone, I would harbor a guess they were used for one thing and one thing only: strangling people who wear bow ties.
Thus, this terrible bit of random cartooning has spawned a new series here on the blog: "When Bad Cartooning Attacks!" Share your own "bad cartooning" discoveries in the comments below. And, rest assured, I will post more as I find them.