David Mamet, cartoonist

Not content with being a filmmaker, playwright, fiction and non-fiction writer and poet, David Mamet is now also a cartoonist.

As a cartoonist, Mamet trades in sick jokes and truly terrible puns. Example: "Dean Martin at the Aquarium": A male figure seen from behind, facing a toothy, snakelike water creature behind glass, thinks, "That's a moray."

Probably the only thing that Mamet's film and theater works have in common with his cartoons is an interest in making us wince or guffaw or roll our eyes involuntarily. They offer him, besides distraction, one more way to reacquaint us with our own unwanted visceral knowledge of the world.



Link via The Comics Reporter.