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Cartoon In March 10 Forbes

Hey, one of my cartoons is in the current issue of Forbes!

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"On The Media" Talks Cartoons

One of my recent favorite podcasts is On The Media on NPR.

So I'm listening to it while coloring some greeting cards this morning and I heard all sorts of good cartoon talk via Nick Anderson and Professor Elaine K. Miller.

Both interview are great, but one sentence of Miller's really sprang out at me:

"Cartoonists mine the metaphors of the social landscape."

Wow! Is that great or what?!

Anyway, go listen to it.

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Have You Ever Seen Gummy Miles

So one of my hoboes is still out there, workin' it.

Check this out (Gummy appears at the 1:38 mark).

Thanks to Andy for the heads up!

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Book Cover - Take 3

OK, there's still some tweaking o do here, but I took a lot of advice and here's what I've got now:

This is, of course, the entire wraparound cover. And it's even got the new Andertoons logo on the spine!

I changed the font from Tahoma to my Andwritten font, and I have to agree with Mark, it looks better.

I'd also considered doing the cartoon larger, but I'm gonna stick with my strengths here and go with a simple panel cartoon.

Whatcha think?

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Book Cover - Take Two

OK, so how's this?

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Book Cover

OK, so whatcha think?

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Something's Fishy with the Andertoons Book

OK, so I'm working on the book and I've been putting the actual pages together.

I want all of the type to be the same size, so I've been removing the captions from the images and retyping them.

For the most part I did pretty good, but I did make one mistake:

Apparently I mistakenly used the caption from this cartoon, on this cartoon.

Still, one out of 100 isn't too bad.

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Tee-Up Cartoon Playing Cards

OK, more cards from Vic Take and Creative Playing Cards! Golf this time!

Enjoy!

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Another Nice Trade-torial

Zip & Li'l Bit's Trade Loeffler has another nice tutorial on Photoshop's paint bucket today!

Go read!

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The New Addams Family Electric Shock Machine Game

OK, this auction is ending in eight minutes even as I begin typing this, so good luck winning this, but I gotta say, this is a pretty interesting "game."

Here's some pics:

And a write-up via Everything2:

An arcade game (although it resembles a game that would be more likely found at a county fair). It has two polished metal bars, and four buttons (ranging from low to "max"), and then has a series of colored lights that go up to Uncle Fester's head. Uncle Fester has a white light bulb in his mouth.

The instructions tell you that the game can be played by one person (it shows someone holding the metal bars with each hand) or by two people (here it shows two people holding hands, with each person's free hand holding a metal bar). The only other instruction is "The game ends when you let go."

Not seeing any warnings, I knew that this must not be all that bad. I didn't know what to expect, but I figured that I would spend a dollar to find out. (I imagine that this is the marketing technique: curiosity).

The game has a small digital display (like you see on the new pinball machines). When you press one of the four intensity level buttons (I chose "max"), you find out what its all about.

The bars vibrate rapidly. It surprises you so much, it kinda feels like a shock. The digital display flashes some wattage, and there is noise. Every ten seconds or so, the vibrations suddenly increase in frequency, and more lights light up (getting closer to Uncle Fester's mouth). It kinda reminded me of holding onto a power drill or power sander that was supercharged.

I managed to hang on until the end, and the machine informed me "You did the maximum!!! 3000 watts!". The bulb in Uncle Fester's mouth flashed some, and the game went back to asking for money, silent.

I took a good look at my hands, no charring, although they did tingle for a while. The whole experience lasted about a minute or so.

Weird huh?

And, just to top things off, here's some YouTube videos of folks getting "shocked":

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