Midlife Thesis

Midlife Thesis is a new cartoon series from cartoonist Tod Pronto. It draws inspiration from no particular subject and has no hidden nor obvious agenda, other than to be amusing.

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We all know that one person. Or two. Or ten…. Hell, it’s practically everybody these days. Do you ever get the feeling that all anybody talks about anymore is politics? It can’t be healthy. After all, everything in moderation ,right? Ma

Mar 23

Mar 23

Life is filled with twists and turns. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could just soar above them? Weren’t we promised flying cars by now? I don’t know this for a fact, but it seems that every person I talk to about self-driving vehicles likes

Mar 20

Mar 20

I don’t know what it is about inanimate objects talking, but it always makes me laugh. Can’t you just imagine the hilarious conversations that they must have while observing us ridiculous humans? We certainly do give them plenty of mate

Mar 16

Mar 16

I don’t remember exactly when it was that I became afraid of heights but it started sometime in adulthood. Before that I was fearless! Speaking of adulthood….can we all agree to stop calling it “ adulting” ? “Adulting” does not mean what

Mar 13

Mar 13

Every. Single. Time. Seriously, you mean to tell me that this is the best we can do? Human kind has made some pretty amazing advancements during our time on this planet. The wheel, agriculture, computers, the internet - to name a few. He

Mar 9

Mar 9

One of my favorite lines from the old “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” movie with Gene Wilder comes when Charlie Bucket and Grandpa Joe open a Wonka bar in hopes that it contains one of the golden tickets. When it does not contain a

Mar 6

Mar 6

Here in Northern Vermont, once March begins, the countdown to spring is on! Unfortunately, Mother Nature rarely feels the same way. Realistically, we aren’t going to see spring start to make an appearance until late April if we’re lucky.

Mar 2

Mar 2

Can we just talk about how some people park for a bit? It’s not even just parking. It’s driving. It’s shopping. It’s going out to eat. It’s online. It’s a blatant lack of respect for people other than themselves. I’m not sure how you w

Feb 27

Feb 27

It seems like every time I arrive home in the evenings my mailbox is stuffed full with a disproportionate amount of mail. 1 package that I ordered (yay) 3 bills (boo) Some sort of car dealership add or coupon flyer (meh) and A bun

Feb 23

Feb 23

Spell check. Grammarly. Brian sure could use both of them! In his defense though, this is a fairly easy mistake to make. Wait a minute? Why am I defending Brian? He’s a cartoon! Clearly, I have a hard time separating fiction from reality

Feb 20

Feb 20

As an old family friend of ours used to say, “Opinions are like assholes, most people have them.” He was kind of a weird guy. Obviously, this was a play on the more popular catch phrase that ends with “everyone has them” . I kind of l

Feb 16

Feb 16

Ah, Valentine’s Day! The classic Cupid, with a bow and arrow, trying to injure someone into love. I think that is how it works, right? Cupid shoots an arrow in your ass, and you fall in love with the next person you come into contact w

Feb 13

Feb 13

Do you ever have one of “those days”? It’s the days where nothing seems to quite gel. It’s the days that you can think of the words you want to use but then you fumble them through your tongue when you try to verbalize them out lou

Feb 9

Feb 9

Winter tires, or “Snow Tires” as they are called often, are pretty much a necessity living in Northern Vermont. I mean, you can get by without them – but it is not advised. They have these tires called “All-Season Tires” but they are rea

Feb 6

Feb 6

Happy Ground Hog Day! I present to you………..squirrels! I know, I know – I should have come up with a ground hog cartoon for today, but I guess it just wasn’t meant to be. For one, I draw these cartoons (sometimes) weeks in advance so

Feb 2

Feb 2

A couple friends of mine just got married. They didn’t make a big deal out of it. They had been together for years and years and one day just decided to get married. No big celebration. No reception. Just two people in love going off to

Jan 30

Jan 30

Seriously! It’s frigid ‘round these parts! As of the date of this cartoon posting we have been undergoing a two-week period in which the temperature has barely risen above 0 degrees Fahrenheit. (That is -17.78 Celsius if you are readi

Jan 26

Jan 26

Ah! A good ol’ fashioned Christmas Tree bonfire is afoot! I’m not sure about you but in our family burning the Christmas tree is a big tradition. Though we usually do it sometime in the spring, once the snow has melted away. After the

Jan 23

Jan 23

Yikes! Her complexion is REALLY off today! Hangover? The flu? Food poisoning? We know it is not COVID because I create the cartoon world of “Midlife Thesis” and in my cartoon world COVID doesn’t exist! That’s right, in “Midlife Thesis”

Jan 19

Jan 19

Winter….what a magical pain in the ass! Here in Vermont, it snows 13 months a year it seems. Just when you are getting used to not having to bundle up in a snowsuit like Randy in “A Christmas Story” to walk outside and get your mail…a b

Jan 16

Jan 16