My beloved Milwaukee Journal Sentinel printed the following cartoon on today's editorial page:

Two men standing at a bus stop. A car is buried in snow in the background (we've had 30 feet or so of the white stuff this year already). A sign is leaning against a wall which says: "Y2K looms! Prepare -or- perish!!" A disheveled, ranting lunatic, wearing a "Y2K" button, half-gloves, a Larry-from-the-Three-Stooges haircut (complete with matching beard) shouts:

"Mark my words! When the clock ticks over to 2000, the world will be plunged into DARKNESS!!"

Well-dressed many with newspaper under one arm and briefcase in the other:

"Uh... Of course. It'll be nighttime."

Lunatic:

"AHA!! SEE?? I'm RIGHT!!!"

This is about the fifth such cartoon they've printed, all with a similar slant. I've stopped counting.

The Journal Sentinel's editorial board can be reached via e-mail at jsedit@onwis.com.

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), January 15, 1999

Answers

That should read "well-dressed man".

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), January 15, 1999.

Couldn't pull it up Steve.

-- type r (sortapreparin@webtv.net), January 15, 1999.

It is not available online. Their cartoons never are. Hence the description.

-- Steve Hartsman (hartsman@ticon.net), January 15, 1999.

Hey Steve, Yea, lived there on 33rd & McKinnley while at HD . It seems every newspaper editorial page on Y2K is a cartoon now !! Even Tampa Tribune couldn't write an informative page concerning Y2K but ,in their words, "There are too many scare mongers out there,we at Tampa Tribune need to seperate fact from fiction...." That's why I moved !!!

-- Furie (fureiart@dnet.net), January 15, 1999.

I believe GN refers to news reporters as 'dead men typing'...'twould seem something similar would work for cartoonists, no?

BTW my mom lives in the Milwaukee area and due to the Journal Stupid,er, Sentinel, it's taken almost a year for my sister and myself to convince her to begin storing food...if it wasn't for the Focus on the Family y2k series and the fact that Dr. Kennedy is starting a sermon series on it this weekend, my mom would *still* be convinced that y2k is all hype.

Arlin

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), January 16, 1999.

The Milwaukee Urinal has really gone downhill since they trashed the Green Sheet :)

-- Dave (dave22@concentric.net), January 16, 1999.

Dave,

you are so right!

(and we are so old!, or something...)

Arlin

-- Arlin H. Adams (ahadams@ix.netcom.com), January 16, 1999.