TOUGHPIGS Sesame Street/Comics Mashup Contest Entries: The Runners-Up

The Top Muppet fan website I often do artwork for, TOUGHPIGS, ran a contest for the best artwork combining SESAME STREET Muppets with elements of comic book /strip characters. Twenty artists entered around forty pieces and I contributed twelve myself. The runners-up were announced on the site today and these are my pieces that made that  category..(I'll post any further winning pieces, if any, in a later post.)

After Thanksgiving Dinner

Salem News: Thanksgiving 2015

My cartoon from the 11/26/2015 SALEM NEWS. In a way, the paper itself proved the point of my cartoon. When I bought the paper this morning, it was HUGE, at least FIVE TIMES as thick as it normally is because of all the Black Friday sales flyers and inserts (which I promptly tossed into the recycling bin) shoved inside. Them's the times, I guess.

Salem News: Tobacco Revenue

For the high revenue Massachusetts cigarette taxes-among the highest in the nation-are getting, very little of that revenue is going to smoking cessation and education programs. My cartoon as published in the 11/19/2015 SALEM NEWS.

Salem News: Massage Parlor Bill

A chain of Massage Parlors is trying to get the Sunday Blue laws pertaining to their industry repealed, but without the pay scale that other workers get. My cartoon as published in the 11/16/2015 SALEM NEWS.

Chewbacca? No. More like Chew-Bunga..

Captain Caveman goes "Star Wars". Unga Bunga.

Groucho Barx

I'm sure SOMETHING like this has been done before…

Deadly Therapy

Based on the 2015 THE MUPPETS tv series. When you work with Miss Piggy, you need SOME major way of dealing with stress.

When Puppeteers Have Children

I admit this is based on theory. But I wouldn't be surprised if this was a common occurrence.

Darkwing Duck

The error…..er, TERROR that quacks in the night.

Chip

This Muppet character first popped up on THE JIM HENSON HOUR, as the technician behind the pirate TV station known as GORILLA TELEVISION, with his cohorts Ubu and Zondra, He was a background character in MUPPETS TONIGHT(!) and finally gets prominence in the current ABC'S THE MUPPETS. He was based on the current series' developer/creator BILL PRADY, who started his career working for Jim Henson.