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.
Their self professed claim to fame is “Welcome to the universe’s largest cartoon database”
It’s been a goal of mine to make it to their listing of 1,000 cartoonists worldwide and after two attempts over 4 years, I was finally accepted to join the party. I would greatly appreciate it if you visit my listed cartoons by clicking here. If you get seduced to viewing all the other fantastic cartoons on offer and want to find me again, simply go to the search page and sort by cartoonist. Lucky me – I’m third bottom of the list under Zeitler, Martina.
Normally I find Wiki a quick way to learn about something that I have no idea about (at least as a starting point). But this time I was presented with the opposite; having played the clarinet for 5 years I knew what B flat was. However, Wiki’s definition challenged my modest brain matter.
B♭ (B-flat; also called si bémol) is the eleventh semitone of the Western chromatic scale (starting from C). It lies a diatonic semitone above A and a chromatic semitone below B, thus being enharmonic to A♯ although in some musical tunings, B♭ will have a different sounding pitch than A♯.
Every now and then I dare to check Google to see if my cartoon is already out there. It’s a cartoonist’s worst nightmare (or close to) to publish a cartoon that someone else has already done – similar in notion to inadvertant copying. If you find out afterwards, it’s a bit like going through the seven stages of grief, starting with disbelief and shock (I mean, how could someone else possibly come up with my great, unique idea before I even had a chance to put pen to paper?). Luckily, this time I was relieved to find nothing similar. I found an article titled ‘Fifty shades of blue’, where my heart momentarily skipped a beat. However, it was short lived – It was a blue hair colour dye trend article.
PS. If you find a cartoon along a similar vein, feel free to not contacting me with the information 🙂
Image credit: Wikicommons
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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.
Sorry for being corny, but it just had to be done, didn’t it?
You may recall some of my previous Tomato Soup cartoons (soup-ersauros, soup-ernova, soup-ernatural, soup-erman, soup-erficial). I think I have exhausted all possible ‘soup’ word gags… but over to you…
