Dan/Tom offered a lengthy (and welcome) explanation of the method in this madness in drawing a 'toon with multiple distractors in each panel of the 'toon. So, here's the mad cartoonist:
This is a pretty well-crafted cartoon, if I do say so myself. Each panel describes a mistake in either approach or deed; there’s the visual component of “mistakes” (upside down head, etc.); and then the closing panel which takes each mistake up to a more meta level. It took me a lot of thought to get all those moving pieces to work together as a whole, and I’m pretty happy with how it turned out.
The visual elements are basically meant to be non sequiturs (well, except for Trump's giant hands, so maybe I was a little inconsistent in that approach). The original image that popped into my head for Cohen was to have his head on the body of a rat, but then I realized it looked like an anti-semetic [sic] trope, which was obviously not something I wanted to convey. Cartoonists have to be careful about unintentional meaning like that. So his head is on the body of a dodo bird — don’t ask me why! It just popped into my head as an absurd image. But there’s literally no meaning to it.
Dan
Cartoon chaos about the chaos in our government. If this is a (fair & balanced) assertion that a cartoon can be a complex system, so be it.
[x TMW]
Game — "Spot The Mistakes"
By Tom Tomorrow (Dan Perkins)
[Dan Perkins is an editorial cartoonist better known by the pen name "Tom Tomorrow." His weekly comic strip, "This Modern World," which comments on current events from a strong liberal perspective, appears regularly in approximately 150 papers across the U.S., as well as on Daily Kos. The strip debuted in 1990 in SF Weekly. Perkins received the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism in both 1998 and 2002. When he is not working on projects related to his comic strip, Perkins writes a daily political blog, also entitled "This Modern World," which he began in December 2001. More recently, Dan Perkins, pen name Tom Tomorrow, was named the winner of the 2013 Herblock Prize for editorial cartooning. Even more recently, Dan Perkins was a runner-up for the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning.]
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