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Toonbots archive: episode published 1 April, 2001

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The metacartoonist embarks on a wild ride through minimalist characterization with a sketch of Vladimir Ilyitch Lenin: Idea Man.

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="300" width="600" rowformat="2">
<panel>
   <character name="marx" aspect="lookright"/>
   <character name="lenin" aspect="lookleft"/>
   <caption fgcolor="red" location="top left">Hey, Karl!  I got this really great idea!  Listen!</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
   <caption fgcolor="red" location="top middle">"You can't have pickles for breakfast...</caption>
   <caption fgcolor="red" location="bottom middle">... but you can have Pickle Crisp!"</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
</panel>
<panel>
   <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom right">You've never really understood capitalism, have you?</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>