Cartoons: 1975 - 2006

In 1975 I enter the Military Academy, among the many activities there I was part of the "Journalistic Circle", we edited a school newspaper, dedicated mostly to comment life inside the Academy, poetry, historic ancedotary, and of course, pull the leg of senior cadets and officers. There I got published some of my first cartoons.


In this one above are depicted the feelings of most recruits during their first field exercices. The one below was about the extreme vigilance measures that were taken during the military government to prevent terrorist attacks.

I swear Captain that I was sure he was a terrorist trying to introduce a bomb into the Chimmenney

Almost 30 years later I tried to 'resucitate' the humor, but this time using it as a way to see with a a very personal and crictic eye some aspects of the military life.
Below is a sketch in a notepad of a cartoon drawn probably during a break at the office.

Personally I liked more the office uniform rather than fatigues which most prefer so I tried to present my arguments here:
-I think this is the most comfortable uniform we have.
-I do not think so. I think the best one are the fatigues.
-How can you say that? The fabric is harder, all wrinkled, and boots ar more uncomfortable that shoes!
-To begin, you did not notice dirt, and I do not need changing shirt every day...

Unfortunately I lost the final version, but below there is a middle stage version during photoshop processing:

Here another one: I could not understand why you could not use an umbrella to walk from the parking lot to the building: it was not par of the uniform, but come on! how do you prefer arrive to the office all soaked? and the raincoat was too warm.

Also I never liked the winter office uniform, it was not very 'functional', just good looking. I lost the final photoshop colored version of this one. Anecdotically it circulated via e-mail and was quite popular among the people in charge of ruling and procurement of uniforms. Especially the head of that department. I celebrate their humor!