I found Jean Jullien's and David Shrigley's websites a great tool to fall back on when my creativity tank was running out!  I've explained why these two artists have been a big inspiration to me already so here's the link to their websites.

http://davidshrigley.com/

http://www.jeanjullien.com/work.html

Here's Jean Jullien's online portfolio too.  I found it to be both helpful and entertaining!

http://www.jeanjullien.com/work-137-allo-.html

The link below is also an interview of Jean Jullien about the Paris peace symbol that he did.  He talks about how it was a reaction to the attacks on Paris and completely unplanned.  Its a very powerful image and I use this way of working on occasion.  Jean Jullien showed me that everything I do doesn't need piles of research or has to be very deep and meaningful.  My etchings are very direct about what I'm talking about and most of those images were just my reactions to how I feel on technology.

http://www.wired.com/2015/11/jean-jullien-peace-for-paris/

This is the part of the interview I'm talking about.

Did you sit down with this image in mind?
No, to be honest. I didn’t do any sketches. It was a reaction. The first thing that came to me was the idea of peace, that we needed peace. I was trying to look for a symbol of Paris, and obviously the Eiffel Tower was the first thing that sprang to my mind. I just connected both of them. You know, there wasn’t much work process behind that. It was more an instinctive, human reaction than an illustrator’s reaction.

Much of your work tends to hinge on visual puns and visual creativity. The simple combination of these two iconic symbols is incredibly powerful. What advantages do you think illustration has over the written word in conveying information at times like this?

Images are universal. Let me put it this way: In my opinion, the strongest images are the ones that don’t require any deep background in culture or art history to decipher. It needs to be instinctive. It needs to be something that people from different backgrounds can recognize automatically, and it’s this notion of identification more than reading. You understand before you decipher the image, and I think with words, sometimes, the barrier is higher. Images existed before words, and they do convey a sense of universality.