Cartoonapalooza #9: What the wave thinks of the surf champion; twilight of the RVs; Captcha hell; plus BONUS animation for subscribers only!
More stuff that I found hilarious at the turn of the year. Hope you find frequent smilage in here as well. WRITTEN & ILLUSTRATED by PETER MOORE
MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING: HOW DO I GET MY IDEAS FOR CARTOONS? Or maybe it was a voice in my head. Either way, I’ll tell you: Most of the time I’ll be innocently pursuing some other activity—bicycling, walking out to buy a Chicago-style hot dog (wait a minute…BRB), focusing on my actual work—when something ridiculous will occur to me: a pun on “bald eagles;” or the many ways recreational vehicles resemble extinct, lumbering dinosaurs; or my frequent failures to verify that I’m a human, with CAPTCHA. So I drop whatever I’m doing and bark at my lunk-headed digital assistant: “Hey Siri, send a text to Peter Moore’s iPhone….to-do list on finding time vs. making time.” Often, I’ve risked falling off my speeding bicycle while trying to send me a message! And despite the risks I run, Siri almost always transcribes the message wrong. My genius: lost! But sometimes there’s just enough information in there for me to complete a cartoon the next time I’m sitting in front of my iPad, with stylus in hand. You never know when inspiration may (or may not) strike, so you’d better harvest it when you can.
Here’s the article that inspired this, btw.
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Share your frustration with having to convince a computer that you’re not another computer.
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“Cartooning is for people who can't quite draw and can't quite write. You combine the two half-talents and come up with a career.”
—Matt Groening
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Captcha Hell - yep, been there, got the t-shirt (but I can't actually make out what the t-shirt says).
"MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN ASKING: HOW DO I GET MY IDEAS FOR CARTOONS?" you wonder. I know. You stand at the stove and stir and stir and stir a pan of water heading toward a boil and the wisps of moisture that you smell release ideas for cartoons into your brain, just sayin'. . . .