Caption Contest: Gurus on a Mountain

Here in the United States it's Labor Day. So I've got a labor for you: caption this comic! You have until the morning of Friday, September 11.

Church Nightmare

Maybe I should have saved this one for October.

FTOYWDKM 7

While I object to sacrament meeting talks that start with FTOYWDKM, I have no problem with starting a talk with a joke. (In fact, I'd probably be fine if the entire talk was a series of jokes.) For this reason, I'm sympathetic to the plight of the second guy in today's gag.

Left Hand/Right Hand

At least she took something from scripture study.

Sketchbook Cage Match: Random Gags

For this sketchbook cage match, help me pick one of the following four random gags to clean up and publish on this website. Or, if you hate all four of them, you can vote E) None of the above. (No judgement here.)

Sketch A: Fantastical Message.

Sketch B: Podcasts Pay Off.

Sketch C: Hunting for Likes.

Sketch D: Walk Out Music.

Or E: Don't Quit Your Day Job.

Ammon's Mission Call

This might not be exactly how it went down.

The New Era Ain't Publishing This: Merit Badge

For nearly 25 years my work has appeared in Church magazines. (Holy cow am I old!) The process works like this: I send a half dozen or so gags for the magazines to consider. They'll get back to me a couple of months later letting me know which, if any, of the gags I sent them they'd like to publish. I then wait for months and months for the gags to show up in a magazine. 

Usually, it takes about a year for a purchased gag to show up in print. Sometimes, though, it takes much, much longer. I've got a folder on my computer I keep of gags that haven't shown up in print. The oldest of which was sold to the New Era 17 years ago! Today, I'm posting one of the gags from that folder as I am absolutely convinced that there is no way the Church's magazines have any use for it now. Maybe you'll find it interesting or maybe you won't, but it's either that or another quartet of FTOYWDKM talk intros (and I'm pretty sure you'd like a weeklong reprieve from those).

Sadly, I sent this gag to the New Era just a few months before the Church decided to leave the Boy Scouts, because it is pretty funny. Back in the days before the Church announced it was severing ties with scouting, Boy Scout and Cub Scout gags were a regular occurrence on this website. Since then, I'm pretty sure I've only published one (it's a pretty great one, though). As we continue to streamline programs in the Church, please give Latter-day Saint cartoonist a brief moment of silence--there are less and less subjects to highlight.