Welcome to TomLamarCartoon.com — a website that allows me to showcase some of my work, some other websites I find interesting, and, hopefully, offer some inspiration on ways we can work together to add some “TomLamarCartoon” to your next project. Be sure to check back with us as we go through our website construction process!
— Tom Lamar
Back in the day (1962 – 1966), I was the cartoonist for USC’s Daily Trojan — offering up regular editorial cartoons, and then later political cartoons. I even had my own cartoon strip entitled “Big T.” Featured below is an example of one of my editorial cartoons. Recently I stumbled across some of these old cartoons. Click here to see a representation of this collection, or get to it using the link in the right hand column. Enjoy.
“Crowbar meets Spine.” That was my challenge with this piece for my son’s latest blog post entitled Crowbars and Chiropractic. In his article he explains that when you lift and twist at the waist with any sort of weight in your hands, you are essentially — from a mechanical point of view — jamming a crowbar into the base of your spine and having at it!
Need an illustration for your next blog post? Let me know, I’m ready to help.
Ever try to draw tonsils? or an appendix? or a gallbladder? Well, that was the challenge my son threw my way with his newest blog at SpinalColumnBlog.com.
His article entitled Spare the “Spare Parts” asks readers what the three body parts — Tonsils, Appendix, and Gallbladder — have in common. His answer just might challenge you. Here’s my illustration:
Have a blog post that you need a cartoon for? Contact me… and let’s get to work. 
Here’s another one for my son’s chiropractic blog. When he asked me to draw up a brain that was sleeping, I didn’t think it would be too difficult…. Boy was I wrong!
“Brain Hibernation” is a theory that a couple of medical doctors came up with (a general practitioner and an opthalmologist) to help explain why chiropactors sometimes witness bizarre improvements in their patients beyond the standard neck and lower back pain.
This is sort of an interesting sketch of a medically personified organ I drew for my son’s chiropractic blog. He wrote an article entitled “Stomach Doctors.” Essentially, he argues the case that calling Chiropractors “Back Doctors” makes about as much sense as calling Medical Doctors “Stomach Doctors.” Check out his SpinalColumnBlog to find out why.
If you’ve ever done some asking around to friends and family about what technique their chiropractor uses, you are sure to end up a bit confused. There are so many! My chiropractor son’s article, “Navigating the Chiropractic Technique Jungle,” attempts to put a compass in your hand. I illustrated this safari-themed offering for his article. Speaking of techniques, I used a special “artistic technique” myself on this drawing. It is called a “calligram” and is essentially when you use words to create your image.
Just created a page containing a collection of cartoons I illustrated for the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology Newsletter. Below is one of those cartoons. You can see the rest by looking for them in the right hand column or by clicking here.
I illustrated this one recently for my chiropractor son who just posted a blog article on “believing” in chiropractic. While people often say they “believe” in chiropractic, you will never catch them saying that they “believe” in medicine or that they “believe” in dentistry.
“Chiropractic is not a belief system that you have to subscribe to or take stock in for it to work, nor is it akin to the rank and file of the Tooth Fairy, Easter Bunny, or Leprechaun. No, chiropractic works just fine on its own, ruby slippers or not.” — Dr. Thomas Lamar
When my chiropractor son was describing the painful neck condition of “torticollis” the other day (which by the way literally means “twisted neck”), I immediately was inspired to draw up this cartoon.
Here’s another one of my cartoon offerings for my son’s chiropractic blog (SpinalColumnBlog.com). This one depicts the frustrating “Headache” that the Chiropractic Profession endured back in 2001 when funding for a government study on headaches was unexpectedly yanked — leaving the positive findings of chiropractic’s effectiveness on a shelf to collect dust… never to be seen by the public. Read the whole story here.
