Toonbots archive - episode published 20020908
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The metacartoonist abandons his futile effort to portray the unportrayable (BECAUSE NONEXISTENT) and instead turns his hand adeptly
to the alternate task of fathoming the unfathomable. The surface humor of this episode is of course a thin tissue screening the unwary and
the less astute from the glaring light of the sheer genius of the process of its automation.
As always, the metacartoonist's use of readily available automation tools like the
American Military Operation Name Generating Device is indicative
of the ineffable sublimity of using the Jungian nature of cyberspace to cause the world to portray itself. The essence of metacartooning
can be seen as the quest to give a graphical output to the collective psyche; the more automated the process, the truer that output.
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The script used to make this toon:
<cartoon height="1200" width="600" rowformat="1"> <panel> <character name="lenin"/> <caption fgcolor="red" location="top middle">What to do? What to do?</caption> <caption fgcolor="red" location="bottom middle">I know! I'll ask Dubya! He's decisive!</caption> </panel> <panel> <character name="lenin" aspect="faceright"/> <character name="dubya" aspect="2"/> <caption fgcolor="red" location="top left">Dubya! THE PENGUINS have taken over Mao, and I'm not too sure of the metacartoonist, either!</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption fgcolor="red" location="top right">This calls for...</caption> <character name="lenin" action="leaves"/> </panel> <panel> <character name="dubya" aspect="3"/> <caption fgcolor="red" location="top middle" size="16">Operation Enduring Wolverine!</caption> <character name="dubya" action="leaves"/> </panel> <panel> <character name="lenin" aspect="faceright"/> <character name="dubya" aspect="3"/> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red">Enduring Wolverine?</caption> <character name="dubya" aspect="2"/> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red">Operation Piercing Snow Leopard?</caption> </panel> <panel> <caption location="top left" fgcolor="red" size="10">Rioting Crocodile?</caption> <caption location="top middle" fgcolor="red" size="10">Gnashing Caliph?</caption> <caption location="top right" fgcolor="red" size="10">Inflamed Hammer?</caption> <caption location="bottom left" fgcolor="red" size="10">Irreversible Mullah?</caption> <caption location="bottom middle" fgcolor="red" size="10">Pious Goat?</caption> <caption location="bottom right" fgcolor="red" size="10">Screaming Amphibian?</caption> </panel> </cartoon> |
