Office Art

From “The Accidental Cartoonists” by Robert Trussell, to be published Sunday, August 7, 2011 in The Kansas City Star magazine.

The cartoons began as a subversive attempt to amuse and distract my colleagues at The Kanas City Star during long office meetings. Often the characters were circus clowns or men screaming because their hair was on fire.

Nick Sawdust, a “hardworking reporter,” was a recurring character. His lofty journalism ambitions were always scuttled by a phalanx of editors with an obtuse chain of command. Maybe I was the inspiration.

Regardless, many of them were photocopied and distributed in notebooks labeled “Office Art,” which ran through its print run of 20 almost immediately. That came as no surprise, considering the price: zero.

And that’s about as far as my cartooning went until…

Read the rest at kansascity.com on August 7, 2011. In the meantime, here are a few “office art” cartoons that will not appear in the magazine.

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