You never know when inspiration is going to strike, but you’d better be ready to wrestle it to the ground when it does.
My wife and I were watching some TV and there was that classic close-up on the heart monitor. The beeping, the jagged line, we’ve all seen it a hundred times.
But this time, I saw it and it looked like a sales graph to me. I made a joke to my wife about how this character’s heartbeat sales were all over the place and she laughed, so I knew I had something.
A few days later this cartoon came out and, although I had to draw that graph five or six times to get it just right, it reminded me that, if you’re looking, there are jokes just about everywhere.
About Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson's cartoons appear in publications including Forbes, The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. His business cartoons are available for licensing at his website, Andertoons.com.
Mark: How do you come up with these great cartoon ideas in a heart beat?