Ditmar does MoCA (with apologies) #4
Posts authored by Jenner
Jenner has been an Australian newspaper and magazine cartoonist for over twenty years, drawing professionally and non-professionally in both the Australian and US scene in the small amount of time outside his duties as a full-time doctor. He is currently working in a city general practice, and has adopted the anonymous pen name Jenner as an ethical courtesy.
Although a daily strip on the Internet is four years old, his Doc Rat character has been appearing in medical and non-medical magazines for over a decade, including Bush Alert, vicdoc and the Medical Journal of Australia. Jenner currently editorial cartoonist for Australian Doctor Weekly.
Ditmar does MoCA (with apologies) #3
Ditmar does MoCA (with apologies) #2
Ditmar does MoCA (with apologies) #1
Not a digital thermometer
A mustered mustard masthead must admit
Swollen legs
It’s Jarrad’s comic book conspiracy – No way!
Jazz players got rhythm
New Caption Competition May/Jun 2017
Here it is.
Okay, a little late, I admit, but better late than never.
Jarrad is going for a run and demonstrating that he won’t be held back by a touch of exercise-induced asthma.
Click on the picture to be taken to the competition page. Then send me the funniest caption you can think of, and if yours makes me laugh the most, you’ll win the actual picture itself. Get to it.
Some people have had trouble getting the caption entry machine to work. If that happens, please just e-mail to me on :
And we have a new winner, from Mar/Apr 2017
Philip McCarty, Owens Cross Roads Alabama, USA
Thank you for a genuinely funny joke that made me laugh out loud at my computer.
The prize will be on its way to you soon.
Click on the picture to see this joke and all the honourable mentions.
The Doc Rat archives
If you want to read Doc Rat from the beginning, until recently you would have been disappointed to find it absolutely empty from 2006 to 2014. I am working now to restore that. Every week, I load another twenty strips into the archive page, and I’m pleased to report that at this moment it’s up to DR0340, which first came out on October 12th 2007. As it takes an hour out of my working day to do it, and as I work on Doc Rat one day a week, then twenty a week is all I can manage. There’s some good reading to be had, at this stage.
Don’t forget that Doc Rat is also on Facebook and Twitter, both the latest ones and those golden oldies from ten years ago.
Jenner will be at Anthrocon 2017
I will be attending Anthrocon, in Pittsburgh PA, June 29th to July 2nd, 2017. Keep an eye out for me where you see Bill Holbrook, of Kevin and Kell fame.
I really look forward to meeting everyone who can make it there. Certainly if you’re already planning to go, then look me up – we can share a sketch and a story or two.
Mar/Apr 2017 Caption Competition
The winning entry is Philip McCarty, Owens Cross Roads, Alabama, USA
SPECIAL MENTIONS
“… oh yeah, I’ve seen that quack’s handiwork before.”
– J. Bern, Germany
“Looks like that tattoo artist really rooked you!”
– Julie B
“Depends. When was the last time you took a bath?”
– Josh Harrington Knight
“It could be an egg allergy. We will have to track this feather.”
– Lucy Erda, Bee Caves, Texas, USA
“The skin lesions have taken a tern for the worst.”
– M Henry, Reidsville, North Carolina, USA
– M Henry, Reidsville, North Carolina, USA
“It explains the squeaking sound when you rolled onto your back.”
– Jenner
It’s silent laryngitis by the boobook
You’re real crook, rat
Puns from hell and quires from heaven
Ben and Mary both go crackers
A bison wide-eye couple counselling
Jarrad, Macaulay and language #5
Jarrad, Macaulay and language #4
Jenner will be at Anthrocon 2017
I will be attending Anthrocon, in Pittsburgh PA, June 29th to July 2nd, 2017. Keep an eye out for me where you see Bill Holbrook, of Kevin and Kell fame.
I really look forward to meeting everyone who can make it there. Certainly if you’re already planning to go, then look me up – we can share a sketch and a story or two.
Jenner had a great time at ThronesCon 2017
While I’m at it, I must tell you about ThronesCon 2017, a Game of Thrones convention that was held here in Melbourne on the weekend of May 20th and 21st. I had a wonderful time talking, laughing, telling stories, and also selling sketches and my limited-edition prints. As you see in the illustration, the con scheduled four of the cast performers to come to Australia. Although one had to cancel due to sudden unavoidable reasons, we still had great congeniality and conviviality from Dominic Carter (Lord Janos Slynt), Miltos Yerolemou (Syrio Forel) and Ian Beattie (Ser Meryn Trant).
When I can, I’ll give you all a better look at the caricature artwork.
Update June 7th 2017. Here’s a better look at my four caricatures from ThronesCon 2017, Melbourne, Australia.
Jarrad, Macaulay and language #3
