Your Inner Child Wants a Rocket Ride!


rocket ride cartoon

Usually when I write cartoons, I find my inspiration in some piece of text: Flipping through a book, reading a magazine, perusing my blog feeds…but every so often, I come across something purely visual that sort of pops for me and I have to figure out how to use it in a cartoon.

I was walking into a store on a recent trip when I saw a few of those coin-operated children’s rides. One of them was this terrific retro rocket. You could tell this thing has been around a while and was on its last leg, but the kid in me still wanted to hop on and take that jerky vibrating trip to outer space.

I couldn’t help thinking about it. For a few days, I turned it over and over in my head until I finally figured out how to put it in this cartoon. It’s nice knowing that even if I can’t hop in a 25-cent rocket ride – at least one of my characters can.

1 Comment ▼

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.

One Reaction
  1. That could make for a great stress reliever in an office! I’d put a couple of coins in – eat some pink sugary fluff too 🙂