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Toonbots archive: episode published 12 November, 2000

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A radical departure from traditional minimalist cartooning, this strip is breaking completely new ground. The subject matter is deceptively banal, indicative of the subtlety of the metacartoonist's intent: rather than submit to the tyrannical restrictions of the Old Minimalist School, he slides crude representations of public personae under our very noses.

The script used to make this toon:

<cartoon height="400" width="350" rowformat="2">
<panel>
  <caption bgcolor="black" fgcolor="green" location="top left">My two presidents...</caption>
  <character name="al" label="Al Gore" rel-w="60"/>
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom right">Wonder where Dubya is?</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <character name="dubya" label="George W. Bush" rel-w="50"/>
  <caption fgcolor="red" location="top right">Hey, Al.</caption>
  <caption fgcolor="blue" location="bottom left">Hey, Dubya.</caption>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption fgcolor="red" location="top right">I won Florida.</caption>
  <character name="al" action="leaves"/>
</panel>
<panel>
  <caption fgcolor="red" location="top left">I'm so lonely.</caption>
</panel>
</cartoon>