Cartoonist Ruben Bolling, creator of Tom the Dancing Bug, rounded up 23 cartoonists to contribute their work to an animated ad for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, a coalition of mayors, led by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, that is advocating for "common-sense measures that will close deadly gaps in our gun laws."

The Mayors Against Illegal Guns ads eschew detailed discussion of the issues in favor of a simple images of people making an emotional appeal. This particular ad follows that format with cartoon characters, some familiar (the teenagers from Zits, the Family Circus family, Jason and his dad from FoxTrot), some more generic.

I have a feeling (bolstered by reading the comments on a few sites where this appeared) that how you react to this ad will depend largely on where you fall in the debate, but I think we can all agree there's some nice work on display here. Here's the roll call: Lalo Alcaraz, Bill Amend, Bolling, Jim Borgman, Steve Brodner, Roz Chast, Jeff Keane, Rick Kirkman, Peter Kuper, Mike Luckovich, David Mazzucchelli, Stephan Pastis, Mike Peters, Lincoln Peirce, Dan Piraro, Ted Rall, Dave Roman, Jerry Scott, Art Spiegelman, Raina Telgemeier, Tom Tomorrow, Garry Trudeau and Mo Willems.

(Full disclosure: I work for a mayor who is a member of the group, but I'm on vacation right now and he doesn't even know I'm posting this.)