Thought For The Day: Thought For The Day: 8.2.08

I don't always drink beer, but when I do, I prefer generic green canned beer. Stay thirsty my friend.

Hmmm...can you guess what condition I was in when I had this thought?

What is Thought For The Day?

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Thought For The Day is the name of this cartoon strip.
The main character is Shamus. He's a cat that basically sits behind his wall and spouts philosophical nonsense. He's not especially wise. He's mostly silly. But he believes in his "wisdom" and loves sharing it with the world.

I've been drawing Shamus since the early 80's. He was mostly drawn on the back of note pads. My Mom worked the evening shifts and would not get home until midnight or later. I would leave Thoughts for her to give her something to smile about when she got home.

She saved a lot of them, some will be reproduced here.

While the strip is called Thought For The Day there are all kinds of variations that I've done over the years.

..Thought For The Week is probably going to be my "Sunday" version. I'll do those in full color and try to put something extra into them.

..Thought For The Month will be used in calendars I plan to publish starting with 2009 (I'll have these ready for purchase in November '08). You probably won't see these online until after the new year has started.

..Other special Thoughts, such as the Thought For A Lifetime that I drew in Mom's memory, will appear occasionally (and maybe by request?).

How To Use This Blog:
While the blog format is a good format to display daily cartoons like this, I find it's not the easiest format to look at a collection or body of work. As time passes the volume of cartoons here will be scattered across months of content.

--Finding past Thoughts:
The main page will contain only the most recent 12 Thoughts.
Use the "Post Archive" list to view all the posts for a particular month. Click on the name of the month you wish to review.

--Reading the Thoughts:
Click on the name of the post, right above the cartoon, to go to a single page of that Thought. This makes reading the comments posted by my sister, Robin, easier to read.
Click on the actual cartoon to go to a full-size view of the cartoon without the text of the post.

--Please Comment:
I love it when people leave comments on my cartoons. Not just 'cause I value your feedback, but I also like to know who's looking and what they think. Thanks for leaving comments.

--You Want Some?
This whole project only just began in late May 2008. I'm working on integrating the ability to buy Thoughts as prints, t-shirts, magnets, postcards, calendars, etc. I also don't see this blog as the permanent home for these Thoughts. Expect lots of changes in the future, but please stick with me.
If you have bookmarked this blog (or plan to) please use the new address I just set up. Instead of going to shamusthoughts.blogspot.com please go to shamusthoughts.com.

This way, when I change the site to another place your link will still bring you here.

Thanks for coming by. Hope you come back soon!

Please Respect My Content:

All artwork displayed on this website is the original creation and property of Russell O'niel Cooney, copyright is indicated, signed and dated on each image.
Please do not duplicate or distribute, for profit or intent of benefit, this content without my written permission. Reproduction of images in their entirety for personal enjoyment is allowed.
I'll be setting up an ecommerce store so these can be purchased as prints, shirts or other (as of yet undecided) media at some time in the future. Please check back later for purchasing options if you are still interested.
Thank you for respecting my work and my rights.
Have a great day.

Thought For The Day

Saturday, August 2, 2008

Thought For The Day: 8.2.08

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