I’d like to take full credit for this cartoon, but it was my nephew who came up with the gag. He politely indicated that cartooning was easy and proceeded to explain this gag in great detail. When I suggested he got on with it and share it, he faulted… ‘I can’t draw!’ Well, really, that’s no excuse. I’m still learning to draw too!
A bit of a flashback to a cartoon I drew a couple of years back, but this time I have redrawn it in the app I now use for all my cartoons. Since I’ve been accepted into Cartoonstock, I’ve been inspired to redraw some of my favourite cartoons which can’t be included in Cartoonstock’s portfolio because they don’t have the required resolution.
Are there any other cartoons from the past you think I should redraw? Or perhaps, any themes or subject matter you think would work well for sales.
Some of you might remember this cartoon from four years ago. I’ve always wanted to redraw it in my current vector drawing app to prevent pixilation and sell as a T-shirt on my online Cafepress store. I hope you like the new version; let me know.
I love colourful phrases as they can be so visual in nature. The expression has only been around since the late 1800’s. It was made common place when an 1894 throat lozenges advertising campaign made the claim that “The Taylor Bros. say that ‘Frog in the Throat’ will cure hoarseness. 10 cents and box.”
Thanks to Jen Martin of Espresso Science, I found new material for this week’s cartoon. Hyperthymesia, is the condition of possessing a superior autobiographical memory and is derived from the Greek, hyper, meaning excessive and thymesis, meaning remembering. Individuals are able to recall the vast majority of personal experiences and events in their life such as what day Easter Sunday fell on and what they wore and did on that particular day.
So, on the topic of memory,
I would have guessed astronaut. What would you guess?
PS. The answer is in her most recent post What memories are made.
just to see what other people have done on the same topic. (It can sometimes end in tears, when I discover my really cool funny cartoon is not the first). However, I entered this search knowing it wasn’t that unique, but rather surprisingly, elefont was quite niche with not many results (15k). This meant that I stumbled upon loosely related topics and I think you’ll agree in this instance, even though unrelated, it’s beautiful.
Meet Bubbles the elephant (Bubbles has a Facebook page) and Bella the labrador; both rescue animals who now live happily together on the Rescue Species Fund Reserve. The photos are amazing and taken by photography Barry Bland, who specialises in animal photography.
I love playing with the idea of symbiotic relationships, however it was only after producing this cartoon that I discovered that this well known example of a symbiotic relationship may not actually be a match made in heaven, but somewhere in-between.
I do love birds of prey. If I could be any animal for a day, it would be the owl so I could do things humans can’t – fly and spin my head around in circles.
