Toonbots archive - episode published 20011017

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The metacartoonist deliberately sets out to examine the borderline between funny and not-funny, with the concomitant blurring of the
boundaries between innocent fun and editorial cartoonery and even between the metaphorical and the literal.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="800" width="800" rowformat="1"> <panel> <character name="mao"/> <character name="will"/> <character name="dot"/> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">So are we going to get a new storyline or what?</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">Well, I've gotten a lot of paid work done, so ... I'm open to suggestions.</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">How about anthrax?</caption> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">... Anthrax?</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">Yeah, anthrax has completely untapped humor possibilities.</caption> </panel> <panel/> <panel> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="blue" font="itcedscr" size="24">Take thou my anthrax -- please!</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red">Anthrax not for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee!</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="blue">That's the stupidest idea I've ever heard<br/>that wasn't originated by Lenin.</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="orange">It's a funny word! Anthrax, anthrax! Anthrax! See? Aren't you laughing already?</caption> </panel> </cartoon> |