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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This cartoon stems from a cartoon I made way back in 1994. Well, technically 1993 when I was just fifteen years old. If you’ve read my bio section on this website, you will see that I produced a calendar for 1994 with my cartoons. I had

Apr 17

Apr 17

Political arguments online make me laugh. They also make me want to throw my phone into a river. I don’t want to read them but ultimately I can’t seem to look away. They are sort of like new soap operas. So pointless yet SO addicting! Of

Apr 13

Apr 13

It always amazes me how people enjoy yelling into the void to validate their own options. I mean, let’s get real, how many people have changed their minds on a subject because some ass hat repeatedly berates them online? I’m not a statist

Apr 10

Apr 10

Marketing is everything. Market a product the right way and it will sell, even if it is a product that no one needs. Remember the Snuggie? The Clapper? My Pillow? That dude’s politics aside, you have to hand it to him for making a medioc

Apr 6

Apr 6

Toxic Wussulinity? I’ve never really understood the bravado that some men seem to have in situations that involve ego, pride, women, and almost always, alcohol. They call it toxic masculinity. I’m not sure if that’s it - or if it is just

Apr 3

Apr 3

As a songwriter myself, I hear this all the time. “I wrote this song in like five minutes dude!” “It just came to me! Like ten minutes and it was done!” I have come to learn that this is not necessarily a good thing. Sure, inspiratio

Mar 30

Mar 30

Puns are a funny thing. When properly executed they can be glorious. However, there is a fine line between corny and hilarious. I’d like to think that this cartoon is somewhere in between. The idea came to me while I was looking through

Mar 27

Mar 27

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