I realized that with the apparent demise of CQ Amateur Radio Magazine (according to Redditors, the website recently went offline, which is never a good sign), I never posted what would have been the November 2023 cartoon. So here it is.
Like a lot of my cartoons, this one is based on reality. I did buy a new car last year, and I did almost immediately figure out if a radio and antenna could be installed.
In 17 years of doing cartoons for CQ and a sister magazine, Popular Communications, I never once repeated a gag, but as I was drawing this one, it dawned on me that I’d done a similar gag years earlier. So I decided to check.
In a weird bit of symmetry, my very first cartoon for Popular Communications (also now defunct) appeared in the November 2006 issue. My first cartoon was for a November issue — and so was my last one, it appears:
