ROAD RUNNER

I refused to believe my road worker father was stealing from his job, but all the signs were there.

What’s so funny about this? So the first thing you should notice is the new format of the cartoon. 95% of my toons have been single panel, with a few two-panels thrown in from time to time. The purpose of the panel is to show the progress of time. The action always starts on the left and moves to the right. The nice thing about toons is that they are very flexible. You can indicate any length of time you want, and you do so by dialogue, picture clues or both. But today, I’m raising the bar, so to speak, going to four panels and even changing locations. Some jokes just lend themselves to more than one panel and this is one of them. I needed to show a theft and I thought it was made more clear by a before-and-after situation. In panel #1 on the upper left, we see a guy on a road in bad need of repair, with holes and cracks everywhere. And there are also four road signs along the road atta