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About Mark Stivers
Mark Stivers' cartoons have appeared in Harper’s, Utne Reader, Funny Times, Forbes Growth Investor, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Philadelphia City Paper, Sacramento News & Review, American Heritage, The Daily Forward, and many other publications.
I’m having my second hip replacement surgery in about a month. This cartoon didn’t make me laugh, but I know it’s funny. My surgeon is actually very hip. He looks a lot like Jesus Christ, with blond dreadlocks. He stutters, which concerns me: “Nurse, hand me th.. th… th.. th… th… oh, shit….” However, he is a master craftsman, and performs six to eight hip, knee, and shoulder replacements every day. I’ll give him a copy of this cartoon and see if HE thinks it’s funny.