dandelion clocks
buttercups
In the Park
29 05 2009Comments : Leave a Comment »
Tags: Adam, buttercups, cartoon blog, dandelion clocks
Categories : emerging cartoons
Adam is nearly 4
11 05 2009I am having lessons with two professional Italian cartoonists on how to use photoshop. Here is my first complete exercise. I am ever so proud. I have also created my own handrwriting font at http://www.yourfonts.com which was also pretty exciting. Next time I might use a ruler.
life before numbers
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Tags: Adam, life before numbers, my fonts, small children and numbers
Categories : emerging cartoons
Cartoon Review: Dave Walker’s Cartoon Church
27 04 2009I love these cartoons. I am not a churchgoer, religious, a believer, a practicing anything, but I find them hilarious. The best cartoons often have the characteristic of referring to a very specific environment but managing to have a universal appeal through the humour.
return on investment
peace be with you
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Categories : emerging cartoons
Not quite finished: “Smiling In Spite of Myself”
22 04 2009
"Wordswords" is my favourite
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Tags: Michele, smiling in spite of myself
Categories : how to cartoon
REALLY?! Magazine Exclusive
20 04 2009
exclusively for you
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Tags: cartoon blog, cartoons using dolls, consulting cartoon, creative problem solving, creativity, creativity and innovation, creativity killers, dirty harry, engineering cartoon, fatal attraction, film spoofs, hello magazine, innovation booster, innovation cartoon, innovation workshop, ok magazine, rabbit boiling woman, the bridges of madison county, the office, web comic
Categories : The Adventures of Marco the Electronic Engineer
Ideas for my bestseller
16 04 2009
Would you read this?
Are we talking a series?
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Tags: ideas for a best seller
Categories : creative problem solving, how to re-invent yourself, the creative process
More web cartoons I like in the best tradition of stick-men: xkcd.com
15 04 2009I am a fan of the web cartoon xkcd, described as “a webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math and language”, for the stick-men that don’t even have faces, and for the humour which often manages to be gnomic and highly accessible at the same time.
well
I had to include this second cartoon because it’s about electrical engineers. (Although Marco would argue that he’s an electronic not an electrical engineer.
urgent mission
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Tags: maths cartoon, stick men, web cartoon, web comic, xkcd
Categories : My cartoon idols
What is authentic happiness?
14 04 2009It’s a website promoting “positive psychology” that really annoys me and which inspired this cartoon. NB: the names of the tests, surveys and inventories are REAL.
[For answers to any questions you may have about this post, like "Did you actually do those tests?" please read this post at my other blog]
membership refused
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Tags: authentic happiness, personality tests, positive psychology, self development, self help
Categories : no stupid questions
Web cartoons I like: “The Order of the Stick”
10 04 2009
The Order of the Stick
I love “The Order of the Stick” for the deceptively simple graphics, the multi-layered humour, the quality of the scripting and dialogue. The storyline parodies Dungeons & Dragons-type fantasy role-playing, something I have no experience of, but which hooked me from the first page (shown in this post). It’s also a parody of childhood drawing and story-telling conventions: the use of stick-men to tell the story (e.g. the enemies of “The Order Of The Stick” are known as “The Linear Guild”); in the second printed book, the author re-caps what happened in the previous story by drawing the characters as finger-puppets; stories providing historical background are drawn with wax crayons; etc.
You can read all of the story to date on the website, which might take a while as he’s posted 644 cartoons to date, or I recommend signing up to receive his posts 3 times a week through rss feed.
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Categories : emerging cartoons
The Adventures of Marco the Electronic Engineer – part 33
9 04 2009
secondary sexual characteristics
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Categories : The Adventures of Marco the Electronic Engineer
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