As much as I love Thanksgiving, it’s a rough holiday for cartooning.

Christmas gives you all sorts of stuff to play with: Santa, elves, reindeer, trees… Halloween is almost as good: pumpkins, monsters, candy, costumes . . .

But Thanksgiving is pretty much just turkey, so I do what I always do when I’m at a loss - I make a list of everything I can think of related to my topic.

One of the things that’s different about Thanksgiving is the lack of a consistent date. Sure, it’s the fourth Thursday of November, but it’s not, say, October 31, or July 4. And that sort of vague scheduling got me thinking about my own schedule, and the cartoon above came into focus.

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About the Author: Mark Anderson’s cartoons appear in publications including The Wall Street Journal and Harvard Business Review. Anderson is the creator of the popular cartoon website, Andertoons.com, where he licenses his cartoons for presentations, newsletters and other projects. He blogs at Andertoons Cartoon blog.

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