Toonbots archive - episode published 20001217
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By means of the simple mechanism of the return of his political theme, the
metacartoonist deftly conceals the introduction of a new thrust in
minimalist cartooning -- instead of a fixed aspect, his characters now have
the flexibility to change expression as needed. The great question is at
which point this ceases to be minimalist.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="300" width="500" rowformat="2"> <panel> <character name="al" aspect="2" rel-h="50" rel-w="100"/> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="blue">Shh, here he comes now.</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="dubya" aspect="2" rel-h="50" rel-w="100"/> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="blue">I won the popular vote, Dubya.</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="al"/> <character name="dubya" aspect="1"/> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="red">Yeah, well Florida's mine, bub!</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="al" aspect="1"/> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="blue">Hilarious, isn't it?</caption> <character name="dubya" aspect="3"/> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red">Make it stop.</caption> </panel> </cartoon> |
