
It’s been a year since I drew Burt Cottage and his friends. But I thought of the butter cartoon and needed something to fill out the page. Welcome back, Burt!

It’s been a year since I drew Burt Cottage and his friends. But I thought of the butter cartoon and needed something to fill out the page. Welcome back, Burt!

Yes, that is an exact quote from “Fellowship of the Ring.” I wonder if Tolkien meant something else, though.

Some of my favorite old Cottage & CO cartoons were the single-panel, one-off gags. Think “Rubes” meets “Mister Boffo”.

I really did see the headline mentioned in the first panel. From there, this strip practically wrote itself.

I tried suggesting this for the women singers at our church. They didn’t go for it, but at least they didn’t throw anything at me.




