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SPEECH BUBBLES
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The speech bubble. It’s an abstract concept, but part of a universal language - everybody knows what it means. It’s a conspiracy of convenience. I've found that putting words in a character's speech bubble allows you to listen to what they might be telling you. Or it might just fuel your God complex. If it’s a self portrait (no, the above is not my self portrait…) it may even be considered a form of therapy. My journal is full of little mini doodles of me - saying things I’ve realised along the way.
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Call it a visual reflection. And literally, that’s what it is.
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You can remix the text and make your own version of this disagreeable lego cartoon on the fabulous Remixer Machine here.
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SERIOUS DIAGRAMS
I’ve been a bit haphazard at releasing new remixers on The Remixer Machine. But I’m quite excited about this one because of its simplicity. It allows me (or patreon members) to upload a base cartoon and then assign speech bubbles in certain places for others to remix.
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You can remix your own Venn diagram here.
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PUMP AND DUMP
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My son and I are convinced that our cat is secretly using the internet at night researching crypto pump ‘n’ dump schemes. I noticed that my phone had been miaow-activated and my browser history contained an article on “how to make humans give you food with just one look”...
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You can remix what my cat is googling here.
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PHOTO CARTOONS
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I realise not everyone has an iPad to spend their days cartooning (or “colouring in” as my family calls it) like I do. So I drew a cricket on my notebook and used a photo of it as my cartoon base. Outrageously, the cricket in question immediately threw some Mary Oliver at me which put me on the backfoot (to use a cricketing metaphor).
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You can remix the text of the cricket’s speech bubble here.
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POWER IN TRANSLATION
Recently, I was live-cartooning an event for BreakFreeFromPlastic - the negotiation of the Global Plastics Treaty in Ottawa. Cartooning a conference remotely means conjuring fast and loose ideas, trying to respond to the themes as they emerge. It's a bit of a headache to create a visual that will land well in different parts of the world at the same time, but that is the cartoonist’s lot.
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A request came in to translate the text of the cartoons I had created. One of the Spanish partners in the BreakFreeFromPlastic network had already had a go and had asked which font they should use. Tsk!
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And so the idea to create a remixable (translatable) cartoon was born!
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PS Don’t be lettin’ no-one be stuffing their words in your speech bubbles. Ya hear?
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