Cartoonapalooza #9: What the wave thinks of the surf champion; twilight of the RVs; Captcha hell; plus BONUS animation for subscribers only!

More stuff that I found hilarious at the turn of the year. Hope you find frequent smilage in here as well. WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED by PETER MOORE

MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING: HOW DO I GET MY IDEAS FOR CARTOONS? Or maybe it was a voice in my head. Either way, I’ll tell you: Most of the time I’ll be innocently pursuing some other activity—bicycling, walking out to buy a Chicago-style hot dog (wait a minute…BRB), focusing on my actual work—when something ridiculous will occur to me: a pun on “bald eagles;” or the many ways recreational vehicles resemble extinct, lumbering dinosaurs; or my frequent failures to verify that I’m a human, with CAPTCHA. So I drop whatever I’m doing and bark at my lunk-headed digital assistant: “Hey Siri, send a text to Peter Moore’s iPhone….to-do list on finding time vs. making time.” Often, I’ve risked falling off my speeding bicycle while trying to send me a message! And despite the risks I run, Siri almost always transcribes the message wrong. My genius: lost! But sometimes there’s just enough information in there for me to complete a cartoon the next time I’m sitting in front of my iPad, with stylu…