Happy Ground Hog Day! I present to you………..squirrels!

I know, I know – I should have come up with a ground hog cartoon for today, but I guess it just wasn’t meant to be.

For one, I draw these cartoons (sometimes) weeks in advance so I’m not always thinking of what day they will fall on while I am creating them. (Next year Ground Hog Day will fall on a Thursday, so I won’t have to worry about it again for quite a few years now.)

Secondly, how many jokes can you really do about a ground hog and/or it’s day? There are the stereotypical “bad meteorologist” jokes I could make of course. I could have done a joke about how the Ground Hog must not have seen its shadow this year because Tom Brady won’t be in the Super Bowl. I suppose I could have done one of the dozens of jokes where a ground hog is at a laundromat named “Hogwash”, or one of many, many cartoons where a Ground Hog is trying to spell Punxsutawney into its GPS so it doesn’t miss the big day? I don’t know if any of these are actually clique cartoons or not but I’m assuming that many of these ideas have been used multiple times in the past or will be used in abundance throughout the cartooning landscape today. So….I went with squirrels.

But not just any squirrels, Snapchatting ones! And what do squirrels Snapchat to each other? Clearly pictures of their…...well, you know….stuff. They have to so they can keep their “streaks” up.

I don’t actually know what this means but my partner, Danielle, and her coworkers are always Snapchatting each other and when she misses a day (or something like that) she will mention that she didn’t keep her “streaks” up on Snapchat. I don’t know what the penalty for this is but she’s always quite sad when this happens. I, myself, do not have a Snapchat so I am not sure what all of this madness is about. To be honest I am not that interested in it beyond making a quick cartoon gag about it. This is how I assume it works though: You and your group of friends make sure to send each other something every day to keep in contact. They call these “Snaps”. Keeping this daily habit forms “streaks” that you in turn need to keep up with regularly. Streaks are good and Snapchat encourages them and if you miss a streak everything goes to hell and then Russia invades the Ukraine. Nailed it! I officially understand Snapchat now.

In all seriousness, I only know enough about Snapchat to be dangerous and make a cartoon about it. I seem to recall it being a big thing back in the day for dudes to Snapchat girls pictures of their junk because the pictures disappear quickly after you open them. So naturally, if humans Snapchat pictures of their nuts….then surely a squirrel would too? The main difference being that I can draw the later into a cartoon and if I draw the former, I may be shunned from certain social groups that I may or may not prefer to hang out with in the future? Follow me for more tips on Snapchat.

That’s today’s cartoon folks! As always, thank you for the support and for sharing my cartoons with your friends. I’ve got another gem for you this Sunday that I can’t wait to share with you. See you then! Happy “streaking”!

~tod