Why are you reading this post? Shouldn’t you be finishing your taxes?!? As millions of Americans rush to finish their taxes by Tuesday’s deadline (well, everyone but Mitt Romney, who filed an extension), cartoonists had to split their time between the calculator and the drawing pad, finishing their best IRS cartoons.

Check out their thoughts of 1040 and standard deductions in our new Tax Time cartoon collection.

Joe Heller / Green Bay Press-Gazette (click to view our Tax Time cartoons)

As a cartoonist, I’m already predisposed to dislike numbers and math, but running a business means filing my taxes has gone from an annoyance to downright torture. Just the thought of having to print out those arcane, maze-like forms, rummage through boxes of reciepts, and finally figure out what sized check you have to write to Uncle Sam can make any sane person cry. It’s no wonder that I’ve drawn my fair share of cartoons comparing doing your taxes to torture.

Here are a couple of my cartoons about dreaded tax season. Hope they bring a smile to your face as you waste this weekend adding and deducting…